The Agrarian Adventure is offering a currently seeking a school garden summer intern.  This internship with The Agrarian Adventure is a great opportunity to get involved if you have a strong interest in helping youth learn about where their food comes from, through helping support hands-on learning experiences growing, tending, harvesting and eating fresh foods.   This intern will be an important part of helping to integrate all that a school garden has to offer, by enriching and extending classroom learning, and helping to build strong community involvement in sustaining these efforts in schools.

We are ideally looking for someone with experience and background in youth education, volunteer coordination, and agriculture.  However, a committed candidate with strong skills in some of these areas will be considered.  This intern will participate on behalf of the organization in the newly developing Tappan Garden Committee, a joint committee of the Tappan PTSO and The Agrarian Adventure.

This is a paid opportunity with responsibilities in four primary project areas:

Every school garden needs dedicated support community members to make it possible!

The Agrarian Adventure and Project Grow and are partnering together this spring to help support and sustain the growing number of educational school gardens in our community!  We are launching a pilot series of workdays in AAPS school gardens to help mobilize interested community members to support these efforts! Volunteers do not need to have any gardening experience.  You must register in advance.  If you are interested in being a part of growing healthier kids in schools, please sign-up for any of the following opportunities! 

Wed. April 11th & 18th, Fri. April 13th & 20th, 8am-3:30pm (prep day Sat. 3/31 10am-12pm). Community volunteers are needed to help support The Agrarian Adventure and the Tappan staff, students, and parents as we grow vegetable seedlings for local school gardens.  No gardening experience is needed.  Registration in advance is required for 2-hour blocks by clicking here.

Excited about farming and sustainable food systems?

Have farming or food experience and a desire to share your passion for healthy food with the next generation? Then we’ve got the opportunity for you!

Agrarian Adventure has been educating middle school students about healthy eating and where food comes from since 2004. The garden and hoop house at Tappan Middle School provide an outdoor classroom used in almost every subject taught at Tappan. New, in the spring of 2011 all of the 7th grade science students planted, harvested and washed over 150 pounds of lettuce and 50 bunches of radishes that were served in lunch rooms across the school district, the first local school garden-to-lunchroom collaboration with Chartwells, a national food service.