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Slack Farms Foundation Summer Internships

The Slack Internship Program began five years ago with three students from HBLA Elmsberg College, Linz Austria. Today we have twenty alumni. In 2021 our Austrian cohort will be paired with local interns, extending their experience and teaching farm tasks from the Tidewater, including basic field and forest management, vineyard and hops yard pruning, garden pruning, and grape harvest and fermentation preparation.

20% of all Slack Farms Foundation programs and 100% of individual donations support the Slack Farms Foundation Internships & Apprenticeships

Slack Farms Foundation APPREnticeships

With the Ohio Program at Ohio State University, Slack Farms Foundation has found an experienced partner to help us provide longer internship programs for international students with visa planning and orientation support. This is a particular focus for our 2020 fund-raising campaign, where we seek to raise $50,000 in FY2020 to allow three local students to participate as Apprentices from September 2020 - March 2021 as our inaugural 2020 class of Slack Farms Apprentices, ready to go out in the world to manage small farms or similar landscapes in communities where their impact can make a difference between forgotten and forward-thinking.

20% of all Slack Farms Foundation programs and 100% of individual donations support the Slack Farms Foundation Internships & Apprenticeships

Slack Farms WORKSHOPS

Maryland is that odd state where latitude really matters. We often share with our interns, apprentices, club members and visitors a fact that is innocently embedded in Maryland’s history about its designation as “The Old Line State”. Sounds great, but what was that line?

The Mason-Dixon line was defined to settle one dispute (between the Penns of Pennsylvania and the Calverts of Maryland) but fast-forwarded to become a defining line for Americans-embracing (The South) and Americans-antagonistic (The North) of African-traded and bondaged slaves. Woodlawn owns its history in its frequent tours, which reveal its lineage to a history of Northern-Southern hostilities between and amongst local families, sometimes brother against brother, near as we are to the site of a Union hospital and now a Confederate Memorial to those who died in a war all about slavery. We’re also a stone’s throw from the home of Dashiell Hammet, who published the first modern who-done-it in 1930, The Maltese Falcon.

You can never change your DNA, and you can never change your history, but you can think about your opinions and improve your skill set. Join the Slack Farm Workshops (Wednesday 4-7 pm) beginning September 16th and continuing through November th with contemporary skills workshops in Ikebana (Bruce Wilson), wallpapering (Maggie O’Brien and Dominga Romo Sanchez), landscape and garden management (Tucker Grube’O’Brien et al), floral arrangement (Kathy York and Michaela Hogarty and photography (Jean Calmere Kubwayo). Bar supper (sandwich + soup + wine/beer)

$45/$20 Slack Farm Member

20% of all Slack Farms Foundation programs and 100% of individual donations support the Slack Farms Foundation Internships & Apprenticeships