Food Systems Fellowship Application

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We are so glad that you’re applying for Groundwork’s Food Systems Fellowship. Complete the application below, and we will contact you shortly to set up a virtual interview.

Application Timeline:

January 20, 2025: Deadline for submitting application. Applications due by the end of the day. While we don’t make any decisions early, we schedule interviews on a rolling basis.

Early to mid February, 2025: Offers sent for fellowship. We notify fellows of their offers via email.

Late February, 2025: Secondary offers sent (if any first round offers were declined).

April 1, 2025: Fellowship program begins in Paonia, Colorado.

Contact Information

First name

Last name

Preferred name (optional)

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Email address

Phone number

Mailing address

Mailing address 2 (optional)

City

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How did you hear about us?

Short Essay Questions

Please respond to the following questions with one or two paragraphs each.

1. Why are you applying for this fellowship?

2. We live, work, and learn together. Please share some experiences you’ve had being in a group or on a team. What are the benefits and challenges of community?

3. What experiences do you have related to simple living or rural/farm life? If you don’t have related experience, what interests you in a fellowship where you will live this way?

4. What are your goals for the fellowship? What do you hope to learn and share with your peers and mentors?

5. Please share a book you’ve read recently that you would recommend to others.

6. Is there anything else you would like to tell us about yourself? (optional)

Open Format Question

You may answer this question in any format you like: essay, story, poetry, visual art, music, audio, video, or a combination of media. We acknowledge that applications for programs like this fellowship typically treat essays as a superior form of expression. We consider any medium you use as equally significant, valid, and professional.

Please contact us if you wish to respond to this question with a medium that you cannot send through the internet. Please also contact us if you have multiple files to send or if your file is larger than 7MB.

Given the state of the world, how do you feel about inheriting this world from previous generations?
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Background context for your submission (optional, but recommended for submissions that are not a form of writing)

Resumé/CV

Please upload a current resumé or CV (PDF files only). Please keep the resumé to a single page and do not include a cover letter.

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