World Wildlife Fund Internship

World Wildlife Fund(WWF) is offering 30 paid internship positions for undergraduate students supporting both business and conservation departments. These include Communications, Human Resources, Finance, Policy, Forests, Oceans, Climate, Wildlife, and more!

For 60 years, WWF has worked to help people and nature thrive. As one of the world’s leading conservation organization, WWF works in more than 100 countries, connecting cutting-edge conservation science with the collective power of our partners in the field – more than one million supporters in the United States and five million globally, as well as partnerships with communities, companies, and governments.

Applications are due May 17th. View open positions and apply here: https://careers-wwfus.icims.com/jobs/search?ics_keywords=internship

Blades of Green Summer Internship

Farmer Educator at the Mountain School

The Mountain School is currently seeking a math teacher to join their school in rural Vermont. Each semester, forty-five students come from all over the U.S. for one semester to take academic classes on their 400-acre campus. The position includes both hands-on farm management—working with our farm and livestock managers to maintain 80 acres of cropland, greenhouses, and pasture—and a weekly classroom teaching role. 

For more information, click here. To apply, send a concise letter of interest, resume, and contact information for three references to comfort.halsey@mountainschool.org by May 15.

Creamery Assistant at Clear Spring Creamery

Clear Spring Creamery is dairy farm with a processing facility that produces and sells retail finished products at farmers markets in the Washington, DC area. They are currently seeking a part time Creamery Assistant. 

The position is available June 2021. Some training in May is possible. The schedule required is typically 3 to 4 days per week. Total hours per week will be approximately 20. 

The primary duties and responsibilities will include:

• assisting with bottling milk and yogurt
• preparing labels and other supplies
• packing the products in refrigerated storage
• cleaning of equipment and production areas. 

Some lifting is required, up to 40 pounds. The work environment is indoors in the creamery production area and the refrigerated storage.

Starting pay will be based on applicants experience and abilities. Increases available after training and responsibilities are increased. If interested, contact Mark Seibert at email markseibert@yahoo.com or 301-730-0065 for more information.

Where Pigs Fly Farm Summer Internship

About

Where Pigs Fly Farm is a small farm located on 10 acres in Centreville. They raise laying hens, broiler chickens, and heritage breed turkeys out on pasture and grow vegetables using organic methods. They sell their produce at the Chestertown Farmer’s Market, as well as through thier website to customers in Easton, Annapolis and Davidsonville. 

Currently they are a two-person part time operation. They are at the point that they cannot do everything themselves, but not quite big enough to sustain full-time staff.

Essential Functions:

• Planting, weeding and harvest of field crops, using organic methods
• Assist with harvesting of broiler chickens
• You will not need to take the life of a chicken! They take that role very seriously and prefer to do that themselves. Duties on harvest day include running the scalder and plucker, evisceration, and packaging. It’s not bloody, but there are guts!
• Clean out chicken coops and brooders using a pitchfork, shovel, and garden cart
• Assist with logistics of moving broiler chicks and chickens from brooders to field and from the field to processing area.
• Assist with moving fencing for rotational grazing of goats, pigs, turkeys, and chickens
• Assist with management of pasture
• identifying and cutting down weed species such as Johnson Grass, Thistle, Foxtail, Datura, etc.
• Other duties as they arise

Schedule

• Monday mornings - 4 hours
• Tuesdays 8am - 5pm 
• (May 11 through October 5th for chicken processing season)
• Wednesday mornings - 4 hours 
• (they are flexible on this- Thursday or Friday also works)

Pay: $12.00/hour

Professional Experience and Qualifications

• Experience with farm work is a plus
• If no farm experience, other useful work experience can include any outdoor work in hot, difficult conditions, fast-paced labor, such as in a restaurant or for landscaping company
• Willingness to work outside and be hot, dirty, sweaty and in regular contact with feces
• Energetic and positive attitude
• (you don’t have to be perky, just don’t be grumpy or whiney!)
• Ability to self-direct
• identify needs and meet them, or ask for guidance
• Ability to use hand tools, shovels, rakes, push/pull carts and do manual labor

To apply, email your resume to Jennifer Vaccaro info@wherepigsfly.farm.

Food Growing Education Specialist at Capital Area Food Bank

The Capital Area Food Bank is the largest organization in the Washington, DC metro area working to solve hunger and its companion problems: chronic under-nutrition, heart disease, and obesity. By partnering with 450 community organizations in DC, MD and VA as well as delivering food directly into hard to reach areas, the CAFB is helping approximately 600,000 food insecure people each year get access to good, healthy food, as a means of enabling brighter futures.

It's a dynamic time at the Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB) as they embark on their next strategic plan and respond to the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic and the resulting economic slowdown are having a significant impact on our community and CAFB is actively responding and engaged in the recovery and equitable rebuilding of our region. Additionally, their strategic plan has a dual focus on addressing hunger today and seeking innovative approaches that bundle food with other related services as they aim to have a lasting impact on longer term food security. They are looking for passionate, analytical, impact driven and collaborative individuals who believe strongly in food as a catalyst for improved nutrition, better health outcomes, enhanced educational attainment and greater economic engagement. They believe that access to and affordability of good quality food can lead to more inclusive participation in the growth of the Greater Washington area.

The Food Growing Education Specialist maintains, executes, and develops educational programming for the CAFB’s Urban Demonstration Garden. The Urban Demonstration Garden is an on-site, half-acre, hands-on educational space that helps build knowledge around wellness, nutrition, and food growing for the food bank’s partners, clients, and the general public. The garden and adjacent Urban Food Studio are used in tandem to show how to grow food in an urban setting, highlighting low-cost gardening techniques.

The Food Growing Education Specialist is responsible for managing all food-growing activities, including the gardening education curriculum, garden maintenance and planning, the garden volunteer program, and any associated grants. The Specialist serves as the primary organizational representative for food growing internally and externally but has opportunities to contribute more broadly to the food bank as a member of the Nutrition Education Department. For more information about the position and to apply, click here. 

Student Part-Time Summer Job with UMD Equine Research Unit

If you're a UMD student looking to get some additional hands-on skills with horses during the summer break, Dr. Burk is looking for a small but dedicated group of students to hire that will take care of our horses turned out at the Equine Research Unit (ERU) for the summer. This is a part-time job involving basic horse care, but it could lead to an internship during the fall semester or the opportunity for a letter of recommendation for an outstanding student. The job starts May 20th and will conclude at the end of August.

The ERU is located on the beautiful 900-acre Central Maryland Research and Education farm in Ellicott City in Howard Co. (4241 Folly Quarter Rd). The ERU has about 13 acres of fenced pasture, a 16-stall barn, and office and storage space. It is home to our Equine Rotational Grazing Demonstration site.

The shifts they need to have covered are from 8:00 am to ~ 8:45 am and then some brief (10 min) afternoon horse checks between 3pm and 5pm. Students must have their own form of transportation. Students must comply with the "Return to Campus" Covid policies.

Pay is minimum wage. The job involves performing health observations, feeding, grooming, performing basic treatments, mucking paddocks, and keeping good records. Additional hours maintaining the facility (i.e. mowing pastures) can be earned if desired. Students with horse experience or those that took ANSC 103, 232, or 330 are preferred, but horse experience is not necessary.

Once hired, students must enroll in the occupational health program at UMD and take the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee training. If you're interested, please complete the form linked here and send it back to Dr. Burk amyburk@umd.edu.