Sustainable Student Farm Summer Internship 2025

The farm internship gives students hands-on work experience at the farm and aims to teach our interns about the essential parts of vegetable production while thinking about sustainable farming at large.

This internship will expand your horticultural skills and knowledge, developing applied skills in design, marketing, food handling, infrastructural maintenance and land stewardship.

The interns will spend their mornings Monday through Thursday working on the farm, planting, weeding, trellising, irrigating, maintaining, harvesting and washing the crops growing at the SSF. Wednesday and Thursday afternoons will be spent prepping and implementing the farm stand and CSA.

Activities During the Internship

Monday to Thursday: Work on Farms
Friday: Lectures, Discussions, and Farm Tours

Summary of the SSF Summer Internship 2025

Type: Internship
Country of study: USA
School of study: University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign
Duration: 13 Weeks
Interns will receive: 15 USD/hr
Deadline: Not Specified

Features of the SSF Summer Internship 2025

Lectures/Discussions:
- Farm design
- Various aspects of vegetable production
- Soil and farm ecosystem health
- Social issues surrounding food
Experiential Learning:
- Farm tours
- Volunteering at other farms and community gardens
Managerial Roles (Rotation):
- Farm stand management
- Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) management
- Record keeping
- Outreach
Individual Project:
- Planning, planting, and managing personal vegetable beds
- Harvesting and record keeping for individual beds.