Cultivation & Harvesting
These individuals often garden on a shared piece of land, often owned by local governments.
What is a community gardener?
These individuals often make bread and cookies.
What are bakers?
This person will get produce from point A to point B?
What is a local delivery driver?
Meals on Wheels or Door Dashers are these type of individuals.
Who are meal deliverers?
This is someone you vote for.
This person grows food or raises animals for consumption.
Who is a farmer/rancher?
This person may work in a restaurant, hospital, or senior care facility and makes food for others to consume?
Who is a chef?
This person owns/operates places where you purchase ingredients to make a meal.
Who is a grocery store owner/operator?
This person buys fruits and vegetables for your favorite stores?
Who are Grocery produce managers?
This person helps lead communities they are a part of.
Who is a community leader?
This person picks the food once its ready to eat.
Who is a harvest laborer?
This professional is responsible for preparing food products for sale by enclosing them in packaging.
Who is a food packager?
This person helps store grains, like oats and corn, in silos.
Who is a grain elevator operator?
This person is responsible for ordering food for your favorite restaurant?
Who is a restaurant purchasing manager?
This person can be helping protect local lands.
What is a Naturalist?
This person may be a teacher or volunteer who tends gardens on school grounds?
Who is a school gardener?
This employee helps make steaks and ground meat.
Who is a meat processing plant worker?
This individual works at a place where large amounts of produce are stored before going to their final place of sale.
Who is a warehouse attendant?
This person takes your food order or prepares your food at a restaurant.
Who is a food service worker?
This non-profit farmer-led organization has over 9,000 members from Iowa and beyond. Farmers in their network raise corn, soybeans, hay, livestock large and small, horticultural crops from fruits and vegetables to cut flowers and herbs, and more.
Who are Practical Farmers of Iowa (staff)?
This person handles large equipment during harvest time.
Who is an agricultural equipment operator?
This person checks food for safety.
Who is a quality assurance monitor?
This person helps figure out how many trucks are needed to deliver produce and other goods.
Who is a logistics & fleet/terminal manager?
This person manages an organization that makes sure hungry Iowans in need have food.
Who are Food Pantry Managers?
This person is one of the organizations putting on this training that is tied directly to a university.
What is is the extension office (agent)?