The Women's Environmental Institute is looking for six student interns to
work
on the WEI CSA farm over the summer and into the early apple harvest. The
interns will work a total of ten hours on a Friday-Saturday schedule twice a
month for a total of twenty hours a month. Each intern must attend a two
hour training workshop on Friday 10:00 to 12:00 on their working weekends.
Additional time commitments or second day arrangements are available if you
cannot work on a Saturday. Overnight facilities for Friday night can be
arranged at WEI. Please inquire.
The internship will start the first week in June and end in late September.
Food will be provided for all interns along with a free one-year membership
in WEI. Each intern, upon successfully completing the season, will receive a
WEI Achievement Certificate in Organic Farming which will indicate knowledge
of and demonstrable skills in organic farming techniques, farm management
practices, certification processes, cultivation and harvesting, soil
management, disease and pest management, and produce processing and
marketing. Theoretical work will include readings on the politics of food
and food justice with occasional guest speakers in the WEI Library.
If you would like to apply for this internship, contact Jacquelyn Zita
([email protected]). Send by attachment your CV or resume and an e-mail letter
indicating your interests in this internship. We will contact you about an
interview. If you are a University of Minnesota student and would like to
add an academic research component to your internship, please inquire about
this possibility.
The WEI CSA project is headed up by Robin Raudabaugh, Dr. Hilary Sandall
and HECUA intern assistant Emily Scifer.
WEI members who would like to join the WEI CSA should contact Jacquelyn at
[email protected] for more information. Home deliveries for 18 months are
avaialble for WEI CSA members starting in mid-June. Memberships are limited
to twenty in this first year of operation.
