• 24 hours of volunteering, or completion of at least one quarter of CELE service learning at the UW Farm
• Completion of ENVIR240, The Urban Farm, and/or ENVIR340 Farm Practicum
• Involvement in Dirty Dozen Farm RSO club for multiple quarters
• a full season farming or gardening at another location and at least two volunteer shifts at the campus farm

• Email both persis@uw.edu and ewheat@uw.edu stating your interest.
• Include two separate attachments: Resume, Cover letter.
• Attachments must have a title that includes your name and title of position
• We recommend that you state why you are interested in an internship in your the cover letter.
• Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered

Position Descriptions

Paid Internship

Dani Elenga Urban Farming and Environment Internship – OPEN for 2026

Assistant Manager of The Community supported agriculture (CSA) Program

Requirements: Must have completed a previous internship and/or at least one full quarter of CELE service learning

Recommended: completion of ENVIR240 plus CELE service learning

• Commitment: Spring, Summer, and Fall/three quarters/full season, requires 15 hours on the farm/week (Spring & Fall), 30-40 hours/week (Summer)
• Primary responsibility is taking an active role in growth and distribution of organic, seasonal, highly nutritious food for our CSA community
• A focus area is the distribution of produce to households, with staffing of CSA pick-up day a priority
• You will learn how to pack produce for weekly CSA pick-up, facilitate community engagement, and develop relationships with shareholders
• Record keeping will be assigned, tracking volume and shareholder participation
• You will learn a minimum of the following – National Organic Production, as administered by WSDA crop cultivation and practices, plant families, IPM, harvest techniques, how to read a crop plan, soil blocking and more.
• You will be assigned the UW Farm Student Handbook for your reading and learning about UW Farm production, history and practices
• Requirements: must be a current UW Student, undergraduate or graduate, must demonstrate previous experience with farming or gardening

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Unpaid* 10-week Internships for Credit

Requirements:

Academic credit – Beginning Spring quarter of 2026, all interns must register for 1-6 credits with an academic department.  All interns will be part of a cohort and will be assigned chapters in the UW Farm Student Handbook for reading and learning about UW Farm history, production and practices.

Experiential Learning – UW Farm interns are required to complete shifts each week in the field at the UW Farm sites with the farm team and volunteers. All other activities: off-site meetings, remote work, outreach, computer work, writing, etc., are in addition to field work. Additional hours vary according to the internship.

Summative paper or project – by the close of the internship, a summative project or paper is required. Presentations will be at the end of each quarter.

*Funding opportunities are listed below.

Garden Maintenance Internship – Landscape Architecture students only 1-3 credits

OPEN Spring, Summer and Fall 2026

The purpose of this internship is to encourage Landscape Architecture students to learn hands-on skills in garden maintenance, regarding perennial plantings; and to think about maintenance requirements as they learn how to design garden and public spaces.

• Restricted to Landscape Architecture Students
• You will learn about care and maintenance of one of the farm’s many interconnected gardens – Culinary, Orchard, Perennial Fruit, Perennial Flowers, Children’s Garden, Permaculture Station, Herbs for example.
• Students will meet with Farm Director once per week to reflect on experience with garden and the course readings in a cohort model. Course readings will include UW Farm Handbook and readings adapted to students’ interests.
• Schedule requirements: Students will be on farm for the first 2 weeks for at least three shifts.  Also, they must work on garden during UW Farm Volunteer shift hours.
• Commitment: one quarter minimum, with priority given to candidates available for two consecutive quarters – Spring & Summer or Summer & Fall or Full Season. Requires shifts on the farm in-person. Hours depending on credits.

Bee Internship, 1-3 credits

OPEN Spring, Summer and Fall 2026

• Commitment: Two quarters minimum, with priority given to candidates available for Spring, Summer, and Fall (Full Season). Requires two, 3-hour shifts on the farm/week.
• Primary responsibility is to learn from the farm’s Beekeeping Mentor how to care for our population of honey bees
• This internship requires at least two shifts per week with the farm team
• Activities: starting seeds, transplanting and renovation of the farm’s pollinator plantings at all three of our farm sites. Learning bee terms, hive care, lifecycles of bees both native and non, actions to help support  bee populations. Building connections with other clubs, faculty and mentors that interact with the hives and giving tours for interested parties.

Environmental Justice Internship, 1-3 credits

Offered Winter 2026 only

• Commitment: One quarter minimum, two, 3-hour shifts on the farm/week
• Primary responsibility is to remove barriers to participation in farm activities and to enable a diverse population to participate in and have access to the outdoor spaces at the farm sites.
• The goal is to research grants and resources to increase access on the farm sites and to connect the farm with a more diverse population.
• This internship also encourages building connections with and hosting disability and minority groups on campus including, but not limited to the Doris Duke Scholars program, First Nations RSO, and other RSOs.
• You will learn farming production, barriers to farm participation and opportunities for improving the farm’s environmental justice efforts.

Farm Education Internship, 1-3 credits

OPEN – Spring, Summer, and Fall quarters in 2026

• Commitment: One quarter minimum, two 3-hour shifts on the farm/week plus leading tours
• Primary responsibilities include learning the history of the farm, its practices and operations in order to increase outreach and build community. You are the “face” of the farm.
• Areas of focus are: giving tours for visitors, updating the website, creating signage, updating the UW Farm Handbook, tabling at events, writing for the farm’s newsletter, The Weekly Dirt, and/or training other farm guides.
• You will learn the complete history of a campus urban farm, the student farm movement. Graduate level – suggested reading, Fields of Learning, and environmental pedagogy articles.

General Farm Internship – 1-3 credits

OPEN – Offered Spring, Summer and Fall Quarters in 2026

• Commitment: One Quarter minimum, two 3-hour shifts on the farm/week
• Primary responsibility is to join the farm team and take an active role in growing food for the community, campus dining and the food pantry.
• A focus area is production or field work and harvests
• You will learn, hands-on how to grow, harvest and distribute produce on an urban farm.
• You will learn a minimum of the following – crop rotation, direct seeding, transplanting, application of soil amendments, tomato growing including trellising and pruning, plant families, integrated pest management, harvest techniques, how to read a crop plan, soil blocking and more.
• You will be assigned the UW Farm Student Handbook for your reading and learning about UW Farm production, history and practices

Food Security Internship, 1-3 credits

OPEN – Spring, Summer and Fall 2026

• Commitment: One Quarter minimum, two 3-hour shifts on the farm/week plus independent remote projects
• Primary responsibility is to be the point person between the UW Farm and the UW Food Pantry.
• Participate in harvests each week, prepare, catalog, calculate market value, and record the volume of produce donated to address food insecurity on the UW Campus.
• You will learn how to record food data, how to harvest, wash and pack produce according to organic and food safety regulations

Informatics Internship

Offered Winter 2026 only

• Commitment: One quarter minimum, two 3-hour shifts/week on the farm plus independent remote projects
• This internship is available to Information School students or those wishing to help improve and create a platform for optimizing the UW Farm impact and assessing best use of historical digital records, social media, educational information and presence by reviewing and optimizing in any one of those categories.
• You will support the farm team in harvest record-keeping and data management
• The goal is to make UW Farm resources more accessible and to increase efficiency.

Nutrition Analysis Internship, 1-5 credits

Spring and Summer or Summer and Fall 2026

• Commitment: 2 Quarter minimum
• Must be a graduate student – only internship that is restricted to graduate students
• Primary responsibility is to analyze the produce grown at the UW Farm for its nutritional content and evaluate the UW Farm CSA program for nutritional data as compared to health recommendations by the USDA.
• The goal is to determine if the farm’s CSA program provides sufficient nutritional content required for a single individual, or more. You will learn nutritional requirements of a population, individual and national standards and to what extent raw produce may affect human health.

Nutrition Education Internship, 1-5 credits

OPEN: Summer and Fall quarters 2026

• Commitment: one quarter minimum, 2, 3-hour shifts/week plus independent remote work
• Primary responsibility is researching and writing for The Weekly Dirt newsletter sections, The Nutrition Corner and This Week’s Recipes and social media. The goal is to educate, inspire, encourage engagement with highly nutritious, locally grown produce.
• Each week the intern researches a produce item that is grown by the farm and posts a recipe and nutrition and/or cultural information. Another project is to produce a series of cooking, baking or informative user-friendly videos for the UW Farm YouTube and Instagram.
• By the end of the internship you will add your work to, “An Urban Farm Journey with Food, recipes and nutrition information and reflections gleaned by student interns at the UW Farm.”  You will learn nutritional content of various vegetables and fruits grown in the PNW and also cultural backgrounds of food grown around the world.

Vermiculture Internship, 1-3 Credits

OPEN: Spring, Summer, Fall quarters 2026

• Commitment: two quarter minimum two, 3-hour shifts/week
• Primary responsibilities are to care for and monitor the worms who eat our food waste at the UW Farm. This internship will help the farm and campus food production be more environmentally sustainable.
• You will help the farm model a circular urban food system. The organic vermicompost will be used on the UW Farm to grow food and offered to UW Grounds.

• Honors Program and Scholarships
• Community Engagement and Leadership Education
• Mary Gates Leadership Education.  deadline is early February of each year for a Spring, Summer, or Fall leadership or research internship
• Jackson Munro Scholarship – summer, applications open in January
• Undergraduate Community Based Internship (UCBI)   January – June. Internships begin week 1 of winter quarter. Applications available Sept deadline in October
• NextGen Public Service Fellowships  – deadline is early February of each year – this fellowship focuses on “a life-long commitment to public service by providing undergraduates with the opportunity to develop their civic leadership capacity through work in the non-profit and government sectors.” the UW Farm qualifies as a non-profit entity and therefore students are encouraged to apply for funding for a self-design internship or one that is listed on the farm website.