If you are interested in interning for us, please contact Linda at linda@growlacrosse.org.
Intern for us!
Grow Garden Intern Tasks
Summer Garden Internship Description:
GROW La Crosse is a non-profit which connects children to healthy food and nature through school gardens and farm camps. We are looking for interns this upcoming summer 2019.
Internship Description:
Intern will be responsible for overseeing a school garden, organizing volunteers, helping with summer lessons and helping plan the Fall Festival on the Farm. Currently, we have gardens at State Road Elementary, Hamilton/SOTA 1 Elementary schools and a new garden going in at Spence Elementary. During the summer, we ensure the gardens are being maintained through family volunteers from the school. Interns check on the gardens, check-in on the volunteers, help coordinate the volunteers and help troubleshoot when needed. We also help instruct lessons to summer school classes and Hamilton students (Hamilton is a year-round school). Interns help to plan and instruct a few lessons with help from the supervisor. The Fall Festival on the Farm, a main fundraiser for the organization, is held in September every year. Interns assist in helping to prepare for the festival. Interns also have the opportunity to help with Farm Camps which take place at Deep Roots Community Farm, about 12 miles from La Crosse.
Requirements:
6 hours a week from June 1- August 31st
Must feel comfortable leading a group of elementary students
Must have desire to learn more about nutrition education, especially Garden to Cafeteria
Must work well with others
Has transportation (car or bike)
A typical week could look like:
30 mins- Meeting with supervisor
2 hrs- Helping at garden
2 hours – Teaching nutrition lessons
30 mins- Garden to Cafeteria help (picking tomatoes/lettuce)
15 mins- Communications with supervisor and/or teachers
30 mins- Researching seed saving techniques for next lesson
Please check out Grow La Crosse’s website to see if this organization aligns with your interests.
Summer and Fall Marketing Internship Description:
Tasks include:
- Create photo journalism blogs each week for GROW La Crosse
- Create professional social media posts
- To capture images, intern will attend some Grow programs and events
- Help maintain gardens and hoop house
- Highlight and review events
- Connect with community media
- Facilitate vegetables getting from the hoop house to cafeteria (State Road) to summer school when needed
- Help increase the number of blog subscribers
- Assist in the marketing of events
- Help with other tasks as needed
If you are interested and have the time and positive energy to put towards this internship, please send me your resume (or a list of experiences you’ve had that relate to this experience), a short paragraph about why this is a good fit for you and times throughout the week that you have available to jamie@growlacrosse.org. Feel free to ask any questions. This is an unpaid position, but a lot of experiences are gained. Also, you may want to check with your university for credit and grant funding opportunities for the internship.