Seattle Youth Garden Works is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and employing homeless and underserved youth in a farm to market organic garden. We serve youth ages 14-21. Through our program we seek to assist the youth we serve in their pursuit of housing, healthcare, education, permanent employment, and community.
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(August 23-August 30: hours will be more limited)
Goal: To create a safe, stable, and educational environment for homeless, street-involved, and underserved youth in an organic garden and farmer’s market setting.
Responsibilities: The garden market intern assists the Urban Farm and Youth Employment Manager in a mentoring role, while working in the garden. The garden market intern also helps to execute the daily curriculum and manage the daily garden tasks of the youth, while acting as a positive role model for the youth. It is important that the garden market intern exhibits appropriate work behavior (punctuality, on-task, engages with youth). On Saturdays the intern helps transport the produce to the farmers market and assists youth in selling the produce. Finally, the garden education intern assists in planning the daily schedule, while helping with any needs that might arise during the program.
Benefits: Make a difference in the life of a young person in the community, organic farming experience, farmer’s market experience, curriculum development skills, marketing skills, networking resources, non-profit experience, be a community leader, work outside.
This is an unpaid internship.
Please Contact Josh Hall at jhall@thechurchcouncil.org or 206-632-0352 x 15
