2024 Seasonal Internship - St. Luke's Rodale Institute Organic Farm

Location

Easton, PA | United States

Job description

Job title: Seasonal Internship

Campus : St. Luke’s – Rodale Institute Organic Farm, Easton Pa.

Travel may be required.

Duration :

Full Season : April 1, 2024 - November 1, 2024 (3  positions)

Short Season:  June 2, 2024 - August 16, 2024 (4 positions)

Applicants must be available for the entirety of the internship duration.

Compensation: Hourly Wage, Onsite Housing

Summary: The St.Luke's Organic farm is a partnership between the Rodale Institute and the St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) to create an innovative farm to hospital model. We provide a CSA & wholesale orders to the SLUHN. The farm grows annual and perennial crops using organic techniques. Applicants are encouraged to have prior agricultural and/or holistic health experience but is not required.  This position is best for individuals who are prepared to work full time in a professional farming environment for their internship duration of choice. Seasonal Interns report directly to the Farm Manager. 

Responsibilities include:

• Execute day to day farm operations
• Greenhouse duties: seeding, watering, plant care
• Field work: weeding, pruning, plasticulture, row cover, transplanting, harvesting
• Irrigation installation, maintenance, removal
• Organic Pest Management
• Harvesting produce
• Packhouse duties: washing, sorting, packing
• Maintain equipment, tools and spaces to be functional
• Facilities: repairing infrastructure, sanitation, compost, event  preparation, landscaping
• Follow all food safety protocols
• Keep records of all farm activities to be submitted daily
• Willing to work in all weather conditions

Candidate Qualifications

• Able to operate equipment safely, training will be provided
• Valid Drivers  License
• Preferred that applicant will pursue a career supported by organic agricultural experience
• Able to work independently, in a team, and lead farm tasks
• Able to adapt to repetitive tasks & the demanding changes of the farm
• Able to lift 50 lbs., and be on feet for 8 hours a day
• Willing to engage with a dynamic & practical learning environment

Schedule: 40 + hours/week, Monday - Friday with rotating weekend shifts. 

About Rodale Institute: Rodale Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to pioneering organic farming through research and outreach. For seventy years, the Institute has been researching the best practices of organic agriculture and sharing findings with farmers and scientists throughout the world, advocating for policies that support farmers, and educating consumers about how going organic is the healthiest option for people and the planet.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, sexual identity or handicap.

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