Our programs are dynamic, growing, and youth centered.
We ask that interns contain a desire to learn, work hard and have a positive attitude.
Growing Gardens’ expectations of intern:

• Personal responsibility
• Timeliness
• 24 hour cancellation notice
• Follow through on accepted tasks
• Clear, open, honest and kind communication
• Willingness to do repetitive/contemplative tasks
• Willingness to do physical work a garden
  projects asks
• Semester or season long commitment
• Mature, healthy role modeling in the relationship development with Cultiva! participants
• Joyful participation in garden activities

Growing Gardens Interns are expected to commit to an average of 10-15 hours a week. This is negotiable based upon the number of credits taken for Independent Study.

Summer Internship Opportunity:
Greenhouse and ¡Cultiva! Youth
May 15 – August 25 with two weeks off during the summer for vacation, flexible with intern schedule. (This schedule is preferred by Growing Gardens.)

or

June 1 – August 25 with time off before internship begins.


May 15 – May 31

• Assist with Plant Sale
  • Transplanting in Greenhouse
  • Greenhouse transformation from nursery to food production
    • Plant tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant and flowers in Greenhouse
    • Build trellises and infrastructure
    • Irrigation system maintenance
• Greenhouse Crop Care
• Transplanting from Greenhouse to Gardens

June 1 – August 25

• Daily work with the Cultiva! Youth Project
• Camp out with Cultiva and Wildlands Restoration Volunteers
• Other possible opportunities with Cultiva: Slow Food, Farmer’s Market, and Community Food Share
• Available to assist with group volunteer projects
• Act as role models and mentors for Cultiva participants
• Organize community events in the gardens
• Garden support for Able Garden Program
• Help to maintain the backyard compost demonstration site and/or neighborhood site
• Assist in fundraising for Cultiva Harvest dinner
  

Children’s Peace Garden and Greenhouse
September 1 - December 1

• Assist in organizing ¡Cultiva! Harvest Dinner
  • Silent auction
  • Sponsor relationship
  • tracking ticket sales and auction items
• Greenhouse bed preparation and planting of green manure and/or fall crops
• Assist with craft days with ¡Cultiva! youth
  • Candle Creation
  • Wreath Production
• Assist with fall bed preparation in the Community Gardens and planting of green manure
• Organize community events in the gardens
• Assist with fall bed preparation and soil revitalization in ¡Cultiva! field, Able Garden, and Children’s Peace Garden
• Assist in final garden compost collection and compost site fall/winter preparation