Carolina Campus Community Garden Summer Intern

Qualifications:

• Interest/experience in gardening, agriculture, and environmental sustainability
• Desire to work with college and high school students, faculty, staff, and local community members
• Positive view of team work and community building
• Comfortable mentoring other student and nonstudent volunteers at the Garden
• Willing and able to work outside during  weather conditions of summer on a daily basis
• Must be flexible with changing schedules and responsibilities (duties may include: fundraising, social media, and volunteer coordinating)

Preference given to those who volunteer at the garden before submitting their application

Responsibilities include:

• Assist with the maintenance of the Garden  on a day to day basis
• Develop and implement a specific summer project (to be determined) based on skills and interest of intern and needs of the garden
• Attend regular Garden workdays held Sundays from 3 -5 and Wednesdays from 4-6 carrying out a variety of garden tasks that might also include mentoring and instructing other volunteers
• Assist with produce distributions and cooking demonstrations held once or twice weekly at 6:00 a.m., 7:30 a.m. 111:15 a.m. or 5:30 p.m
• Participate in individual meetings with the garden manager and monthly advisory board meetings
• Assist in the  pick up and deliver of compost to the garden from nearby restaurant coffee shop and/or Whole Foods grocery store
• Hours will vary from 6-12 hours per week with responsibilities both at the garden and on own time (hours are negotiable) but can be somewhat flexible to accommodate a part-time job
• Assist in the training of new interns for the following academic year (if available)

If you are interested in this position (or if you have any questions) please send in the hiring application and a copy of your resume to Claire Lorch at clorch@email.unc.edu

For more general inquiries about the garden, please visit our website at http://uncgarden.web.unc.edu/

Message from the Carolina Community Garden:

Thanks to some wonderful weather and the generous spirit of five high school students, seven neighbors and other community members and three UNC students, we were able to get quite a lot done this past Sunday. Beds were cleared and prepared for spring plantings, garden debris was chopped up and added to the compost that with considerable effort was turned, several varieties of pepper, eggplant, basil and okra seeds were started in flats and 44 pounds of collards, kale, Savoy cabbage, two varieties of spinach, salad greens, chard and pea shoots were harvested and distributed to 26 very gracious first-shift housekeepers this morning.

We will be back in the garden on Wednesday from 3:00 – 5:00, primarily focused on preparing more beds for some serious planting on Sunday.

We will also be at the Work Well Live Well Expo tomorrow over at the Rams Head Recreational Center from 11:00 – 2:00 raffling off some CCCG t-shirts and offering samples of some sweet potato bread. Please stop by and say hello!