Interns Needed for Garden Project Community Garden Program

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Community Garden Assistants will work directly with Garden Project staff on a variety of tasks throughout our gardening season. Duties include:

• Leading community volunteer work days to support low-income and community gardeners.
• Assisting staff with garden support and fall clean-up projects and organizing tools, seeds, and other resources at the Garden Project Resource Center (located on the Eastside of Lansing)
• Publicizing and supporting local garden efforts through social media, brochures, flyers, and other media outlets
• Writing/editing informational and educational print and web-based materials
• Assist in documenting Garden Project programs and sites.
• Supporting volunteer efforts such as coordination, outreach, and recruitment as well as increasing efficiencies within the greater program

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of gardening is helpful but not required.
• Ability to work with a diverse range of people of various social, cultural, economic, and ethnic backgrounds while maintaining a positive attitude.
• Interest in community-embedded development work.
• Demonstrated ability to follow direction and work independently.

Transportation/Location information: Our office is located by the airport on the north side of Lansing. Travel to our eastside Resource Center and various gardens throughout Lansing is required. Personal transportation is not necessary but ideal.

This is an unpaid internship through the Greater Lansing Food Bank Garden Project program. Volunteers are expected to be reliable and work between 10-20 hrs per week.