Garden Internship description
Projects Include (but not limited to):
Swale Building
Korean Natural Farming
Seed Sowing
Regenerative Farming
Vermaculture
Watering / Weeding
Small Livestock Care
The Work Week will consist of:
Two, two hour work parties Wednesday and Thursday 10:30am-12:30pm and 9:00am-11:00am as the weather heats up.
We may also add in evening work parties to complete tasks in the cooler part of the day. Other activities will be weekly weeding, feeding, harvesting, and sowing seeds, food preservation and processing, and bed prep for the next season. Being on the weekly watering schedule, and lined out tasks by the garden manager to complete on your own time or with the group of garden helpers.
Lost Valley Educational Center is looking for two garden interns to join our team this season!
1-2 years min experience with market gardening, community gardening, organic farming, or some form of community scale sustainable agriculture. Experience with irrigation, vermicomposting, composting, and/or perennial fruit care is a bonus.
Proficiency using garden tools, identifying pests, proper planting/harvesting techniques, identifying and removing weeds.
Embrace physical activity. Frequent use of shovels, hoes, rakes, moving compost/soil, digging trenches/swales.
Responsible for following food safety protocol from harvest to community store.
Responsible for garden cleanliness and safety for community interaction.
Comfortable taking initiative with daily tasks like watering and weeding, self motivated.
Comfortable taking directions and asking clarifying questions.
Have Love for the earth, for growing food, for community.
Have a deep belief and understanding that the power of food and community are tenets to physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being
Program supervisor
Khyla Allis - Community Garden Coordinator
Khyla is devoted to wholistic wellness and the healing of our internal and external environment; on a mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual level. She believes that restoring our relationship to Mother Earth is the fundamental medicine for the collective. Khyla is a permaculture designer, teacher, food justice activist, and soil worshipper. In the last 6 years, she has explored and helped grow food and plant trees in a broad range of ecosystems around the world, such as Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Nevada desert and now Oregon, while learning from amazing local teachers throughout her journeys. She set her roots at Lost Valley Education Center and is currently the Garden Manager. She honors the plants and the entire ecosystem by ethically harvesting and teaching others to listen deeper, she brings a spiritual and intuitive practice into the gardens. She is working to dismantle racism and food injustice in the agriculture industry, recognizing that this knowledge and this land is indigenous land & knowledge.
