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Crew Member ~ Youth Internship Program Summer ’23
Being a high-school intern with The Green Heart Project’s Youth Internship Program is more than a job. It’s an opportunity to get paid, have fun, make new friends, spend time outside and help your community. By the end of the summer, you will develop career preparedness and healthy living skills that promote engaged citizenship through urban farming. As a Crew Member, you will assist with farm maintenance and produce sales, at our pay what you can farmer’s market. You will also engage in lessons connecting food, health, culture, and the environment on an urban farm that serves as an outdoor classroom and learning laboratory. THE APPLICATION FOR THIS POSITION IS NOW CLOSED.
IMPORTANT DATES:
- DEADLINE EXTENDED: 11:59pm on Friday, April 7th
- Group Interview: April 8th
- Program: June 12th-August 4th
Qualifications
- Be 15- 19 years of age by June 12, 2023
- Have completed 9th grade
- Available to work over the summer during the 8-week program
- Answer all questions on the Internship Application
- Provide contact information for two personal or professional references: teacher, employer, coach, counselor, mentor, minister, other (this cannot be a family member)
- Complete an interview with Green Heart
- Applicants who have completed an application and provided references by April 7th, 2023 will be interviewed and considered for the position
For More Information
You will work with a team of peers to maintain the Urban Farm at Enston Home as well as our other school garden sites around Charleston. Farm duties will include: growing, harvesting, and processing fruit and vegetable crops. Additionally, you will help run the onsite Farm Stand by pricing and selling Green Heart-grown produce. These opportunities allow interns to serve the Charleston community by engaging with their neighbors through the growing and selling of fresh, healthy, and affordable food. Furthermore, Crew Members will engage in daily educational sessions, workshops and community site visits. Through this internship, you will develop career preparedness, healthy living, and citizenship skills.
Check out our video from our first summer internship in 2020!
Reach out to kenai@greenheartsc.org with any additional questions!
Urban Farm Field Trips
Interested in bringing a group of students to the Urban Farm at Enston Home? A Green Heart Urban Farm Field Trip will consist of a farm tour, hands on garden activity, a fresh picked taste-test, and a takeaway. Field trips can be designed to the meet the needs of your students and cover a wide range of topics. We practice respecting ourselves, buddies, and the earth by following strict COVID-19 guidelines. Please note there is a cost of $10/person for field trips – however, if this cost is prohibitive, we are happy to discuss payment with you further.
Fill out this inquiry form to get the process started and contact Kenai at kenai@greenheartsc.org with any questions!
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Garden Volunteer
We are always looking for qualified & passionate volunteers to support our school gardens and the Urban Farm at Enston Home! Garden Volunteers commit to garden work days or special projects throughout the semester.
With COVID-19, our fall work days will have a capped number of volunteer spaces and will follow safety protocols. Fall workday dates are posted on our Events Calendar, so take a look, sign up and we’ll see you out in the garden!
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Corporate and Volunteer Opportunities
Serving as a group with The Green Heart Project is great for team-building, and building community while getting your hands dirty in the garden! As a group, you will receive a tour of the farm, learn more about the Project and why issues of sustainability and local foods are important to the Lowcountry community. After a productive session in the garden, we highly recommend nourishing yourselves with delicious, fresh food and drinks at Taco Boy, which is just up the road! If you have a corporate or community group who would like to volunteer together, The Green Heart Project can work with you to coordinate a day and time to come out to work in one of our gardens. Group sessions typically include general farm tasks: weeding, planting seeds, harvesting produce, digging, building, and watering. Occasionally, there are also opportunities to sponsor and work on larger projects that require volunteer groups in order to complete. For more information, please submit this form Volunteer Group – we would love to get you out in the garden!
Donate Your Time & Skillset
Would you like to get involved with our project in a way that is not listed? Are you a carpenter that wants to build a chicken coop? A writer that would love to blog for us about sustainable and local food? A social media guru that can enhance our marketing? Or do you have a farm truck full of horse manure that you want to bring by to fertilize our beds? We are always open to suggestions from our volunteers, and ideas to improve our gardens and our programs are always welcome! For more information, please contact us at volunteer@greenheartsc.org – we would love to get you out in the garden!