We have hired our interns for 2014. If you are interested, please consider applying next year.
Urban Ag Internships 2014
CommonWealth Urban Farms is looking for two part-time interns for the 2014 season. We are a small urban farm in near NW Oklahoma City, with a 25 person CSA (subscription vegetable service) and a strong educational component. We are beginning an internship program this year. Our goal is to train future urban farmers in all aspects of successfully running an urban farm. We are looking for interns who are passionate about local food and sustainability, and who want to work hard to help urban agriculture flourish in OKC.
Job description
10 hours/week
Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, Friday mornings or afternoons – some flexibility
$8 per hour starting wage
8-9 month position: March through late November
Requirements
Positive attitude, flexibility, self-motivation, commitment to sustainability.
Ability to work well on a team, as well as to work alone and unsupervised.
Ability to work in difficult conditions: hot weather (100 degrees or more), cold weather (below freezing), windy or wet conditions.
Enjoyment of strenuous physical labor, willingness to work quickly and efficiently.
Desire to learn and to serve the community with what you learn.
What We Offer
We are a working urban farm. Our staff has decades of experience in home gardening, community gardening and market gardening. We offer the opportunity for you to work alongside us. We commit to teaching you as much as possible in all areas of urban farming: planning, record-keeping, data analysis, planting, weed/pest/disease prevention and control, soil and plant health, harvesting, post-harvest processing, marketing, community relations, advocacy, bio-remediation, rainwater harvesting, and long-term sustainability of farm and farmer.
We are a work in progress! We’re still figuring out how to create a financially and socially healthy urban ag business on a very small land base. We are constantly learning. This will be our first year to offer internships, so we’ll be learning together. We welcome your participation in the ongoing process of creating and strengthening our farm and our community.
To Apply
We hire from our pool of volunteers. We suggest that you volunteer with us several times, so that we can all get a sense as to whether this is a good fit. We have volunteer work times every Saturday morning from 9 am to noon, plus several other times during the week. All ages, genders, ethnicities are encouraged to apply. See below for application form; please fill it out and return it to us via email.
More information about CommonWealth Urban Farms at
Info@commonwealthurbanfarms.com
Application Form
Name, address, phone, email
Why do you want this job?
What is your experience with gardening and/or urban ag?
Educational background
Are you able to commit to these hours? (Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, plus Friday mornings or afternoons – some flexibility.)
What are your other work or school commitments?
How do you hope to serve your community with this training?
Please give contact info for 3 references.