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Job Opportunity: Alley Cropping Intern with KPU

The Institute for Sustainable Food Systems at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) is looking for a student or recent graduate (last 2 years) intern to work in our hazelnut and pome fruit alley cropping projects for 6 months, 10-15 hours per week, located in Richmond BC. Pay is between 23-25 $/hour depending on experience.

About the position:

The Institute for Sustainable Food Systems conducts applied research and provides extension programming focused on fostering regional and deeply sustainable farming and food systems. Alley cropping is a productive agroforestry practice that integrates fruit and nut trees with intercrops. The intern will mainly be responsible for maintenance of demonstration plots over the growing season (mowing, weeding, mulching, irrigation), and assist with harvest, data collection, and end of season tasks. The intern will also log management activities, and assist with background research, and report writing.

Required experience:

The intern should have some field work experience, enjoy working on the farm, and have some basic familiarity with farm machinery, though training will be provided.

Application process:

Please email maayan.kreitzman@kpu.ca with a CV and brief cover letter.

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Job Opportunity: Field Worker at Close to Home Organics

Position Overview:

Close to Home Organics is a family-owned and operated organic mixed-vegetable farm, located in Abbotsford. We farm at Glen Valley Organic Farm as shareholders of the Glen Valley Organic Farm Cooperative. In 2022, our sales will focus on a Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) program that we run in cooperation with Earth Apple Organic Farm. We are seeking two farm workers to work with us through the farming season. One of those farmers would start in February, the other closer to April (we can be flexible on start-time), and work with us through to the end of October. Both are full-time positions with a Monday-Friday work-week.

Our Field Workers are expected to work outside in all types of conditions. The work is physically demanding and is at times solo. Successful farm workers are self-motivated, aware of their body’s need for water and stretching, driven to get the work done efficiently, and communicate well with others. Preference will be given to applicants with previous farm experience and proven ability to work efficiently. The work is not glamorous, but the results are tangible…and delicious.

Example Tasks:

Field and Cold-frame Tasks:

  • Bed preparation (using a tractor), irrigation maintenance
  • Seeding, and transplanting (using hand tools)
  • Weeding (by hand, with hand tools and mechanized tools)
  • Harvesting (by hand)
  • Pathway maintenance (using hand tools and/or walk behind rototiller)

Packing Tasks

  • Washing and packing vegetables according to customer orders
  • Following cleaning protocols to maintain a food-safe work environment

Farm Tasks

  • Grass maintenance
  • Blackberry maintenance
  • General help in spring clean-up and maintaining a tidy farmyard

Compensation:

$17/hour
Access to produce ‘seconds.’

More Information:

https://www.closetohomeorganics.com/work-with-us

Chris Bodnar or Page Dampier at
Email: hello@closetohomeorganics.com
Telephone: 604-897-1111

The logo of close to home organics

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Paid Summer of 2022 Internship on Goat Cognition in Germany

Dear colleagues,

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers each year a paid internship for undergraduates from North America, UK or Ireland to come to work in Germany for about 3 months. This year, we again submitted an offer and are eager to host a student to assist us with our new goat cognition studies (brief outline attached) in summer 2022.

It would be amazing if you could circulate this advert with your classes and/or forward it to students that might be particularly interested in this opportunity. Thanks so much!

Cheers,
Christian

Christian Nawroth, PhD
PostDoc
Institute of Behavioural Physiology
Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology

Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2
18196 Dummerstorf
Germany

Tel: +49 38208 68-805
Email:   nawroth@fbn-dummerstorf.de
Twitter:  @GoatsThatStare
Homepage
ResearchGate

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Looking for a MSc Student Interested in Mental Health and One Welfare to Apply ASAP // For Senior Undergrads

Hi folks,

I’m looking for a domestic student to apply for a Mitacs/Mental Health Research Canada internship and MSc looking at dairy and beef farmer mental health (and how it relates to cattle health and welfare).

If you know of any keen students, could you please let them know or let me know? They would need to apply to the university today (or early next week) but I have the Mitacs/MHRC application almost complete.

Thanks so much,

Meagan

Meagan King

Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Science
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Manitoba
Email: Meagan.King@umanitoba.ca
Website: https://meagantmking.wixsite.com/research
Twitter: @meagantmking

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