CEFS Summer Internship in Sustainable Agriculture

CEFS Summer Internship in Sustainable Agriculture
June 3 - July 26, 2013 
Internship Background

We are seeking highly-motivated undergraduate students from a variety of different backgrounds, with a strong interest in sustainable agriculture, to participate in a unique 8-week summer internship. Summer Interns with the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) come from all over the country and world to work with faculty members to learn about the concepts and practices of various aspects of sustainable agriculture through hands-on farm work, lectures and discussions, community engagement, and field trips to local farms and markets. In addition, a highlight of this program is that interns will gain hands-on sustainable agriculture research knowledge through working with a diversity of CEFS Faculty Researchers from various disciplines at CEFS' 2,000-acre research farm in Goldsboro, N.C.

Goals

For students completing the CEFS Sustainable Agriculture Internship Program, the goals are to describe sustainable agriculture and community food systems from a broad systems perspective;
observe and evaluate a variety of agricultural systems and practices for their sustainability;
improve professional development and collaborative learning interactions with university faculty and staff, farmers, extension agents, researchers, non-governmental organizations and the community;
communicate how sustainable agriculture research is conducted, basic techniques, and data collected from a variety of disciplines in sustainable agriculture
http://www.cefs.ncsu.edu/getinvolved/internships/internships.html