We are Hiring!
Part-time Community Herbalist Educator and Remedy-maker for 2026 Season
Spoonful Herbals (501c3) began in 2014 as a Community Supported Apothecary program and is entering its 12th year as a woman-owned non-profit organization in the Greater Burlington Vermont area centering nature-based healing, local education, and community herbal justice/flourishing.
Join our small team of community herbalists and over 100 apprenticeship alumni/volunteers and help us grow our established line of herbal remedies and community education offerings. We currently offer online product sales for local distribution, and maintain wholesale retail accounts with Railyard Apothecary and Lucky You boutique. In our first 10 years, we focused on remedy making as a side project of our Community Herbalism Apprenticeship and Community Supported Apothecary (CSA) programs, and we wish to expand this arm of the business from a strong foundation of existing recipes, retail partners, webstore and a mailing list of over 1,100 contacts.
Job: Part-time seasonal (10-15 hours per week April-November) with opportunities for growth
Schedule: flexible but must be available during business hours and Wednesday afternoons/evenings May-October; some nights and weekend work required.
Location: Greater Burlington, Vermont Geographic area
Job Opportunities:
Collaborate with Director to blend, bottle, label and store hand-crafted herbal remedies featuring locally grown and wildcrafted plants and fungi.
Collaborate with Director on research and development of new herbal remedy blends, names, packaging and marketing copy.
Lead Community Supported Apothecary (CSA) program with support from Director and Communications manager.
Collaborate with Director and Garden/Wildcrafting Coordinator to produce tinctures, oils, glycerites, and cut/sift dried herbs from local sources for blending into formulas.
Coordinate and mentor apprentices and volunteers to process, bottle and label herbal remedies.
Expand remedy sales to new local retail locations and markets.
Lead distribution of herbal remedies to retail locations and some weekend markets.
Assist in teaching the Community Herbalism Apprenticeship Program (with potential for promotion to co-teacher in 2027)
Teach community workshops and herb walks with our established educational partners- Shelburne Farms, Rock Point Commons, Railyard Apothecary, Intervale Center, University of Vermont, etc.
Serve botanical mocktails at summer and fall events through our established community partners: Rock Point Commons, Bread and Butter Farm, etc.
Participate in expanding community education and mutual aid opportunities locally.
Required Skills:
Experienced herbal remedy maker- both topical and internal remedies; does not need to be commercial scale experience
Knowledge of GMP (general manufacturing practices), herb identification (sight and organolepsis), and herbal remedy label standards.
Experienced adult educator: leading herb walks, workshops, webinars, etc.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including self awareness and desire for personal/professional growth.
Demonstrated ability to work independently and in a small team, sometimes in a leadership/mentorship role.
Comfort with technology including collaborative tools- zoom, shared web documents, digital film and photography, creating and printing labels.
Experience or willingness to learn business operations.
Experience or willingness to learn financial record keeping.
Awareness of herbal justice themes and willingness to assist with mutual aid projects.
Additional Desirable Skills (not required to apply):
Bookkeeping and operations experience.
Small scale farming/Gardening and wildcrafting experience.
Clinical Herbalism experience- grow your practice with us too, under mentorship with clinically trained community herbalist, licensed health coach and founding director Katherine Elmer.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until March 1st, 2026. We will check references and reach out to applicants to schedule interviews as applications arrive. The start date is March 15th as a seasonal position with potential to extend.
Please read more details on the application and reach out with any questions at info@spoonfulherbals.org
