Horticulture internships

Heritage Museum and Gardens in historic Sandwich, MA on Cape Cod offers summer internships for the period May through late August.  This is a great opportunity to gain botanical garden work experience.  Students work directly for and with the Director of Horticulture in the Garden doing various duties as required to maintain a public garden. [...]

Crop Production Services in Milton, NY is located in the beautiful Hudson Valley (http://www.cpsagu.com/map/Default.aspx).  Sitting beside some of the early, rich history of the state are some of the greatest agricultural treasures.  We are a very diverse agricultural community growing high quality tree fruit, fresh market vegetables and a huge array of specialty crops. We [...]

The National Garden Internship was established to help bring the National Garden to life for visitors while cultivating new talent in the field of public horticulture. The 10 week summer position focuses on educational outreach through planning, implementing and managing interpretive materials and programs for the public. Past interns have had the opportunity to work on [...]

Pennsylvania State University: Field and laboratory assistant needed to help with data collection for a Penn State Department of Entomology Master’s thesis project. Research is focused on the contribution of flowering spring cover crops to local native bee communities in an organic agriculture setting. Work will include both outdoor field work (80%) at Penn State [...]

Our 12-week summer internships are designed for college undergraduate and graduate students majoring in horticulture, landscape architecture, ecology, or related plant science fields who are interested in hands-on training and academic instruction in naturalistic garden design and native plants. Currently, seven internships are available. Our goal, upon completion of the internship program, is for students [...]

Cornell University’s New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York offers a Summer Research Scholars Program where undergraduate students can participate in exciting research projects in one of four disciplines including; Entomology, Food Science, Horticulture, and Plant Pathology/Plant-Microbe Biology. The student interns will have the opportunity to work with faculty, their graduate students, [...]

4-H STEM Camp Experience Faculty: Marcia Eames-Sheavly Location: 4-H Camps Bristol Hills and Wyomoco Part of the Cornell Cooperative Extension Summer Internship Program. Eligibility: Must be a CALS full time freshman, sophomore or junior. Graduating seniors are not eligible. Award amount: $4,000. Application Deadline: February 28, 2013 or until an acceptable pool of applicants is [...]

Planting Fields is a spectacular 409-acre public garden located on the north shore of Long Island. Our former Gold Coast estate features specimen trees, ornamental shrubs, herbaceous plantings, 1 acre of display and production greenhouses, historic buildings and a 65 room Tudor revival mansion. The arboretum features one of the most comprehensive woody plant collections [...]

Part of the Sustainability Internship Program launched in the Fall 2011 by the Tompkins County Planning Department as a pilot feature of The Sustainability Center. Project Description: Take part in the BIG Project (Brooktondale Inspirational Gardens) and join year two of the threeyear project that began in 2012. The vision of the BIG Project is [...]

Rhode Island’s coastal habitat currently faces a number of threats including aggressive exotic invasive plant species. Interns will carry out control of invasive plants threatening important coastal shrub-scrub and salt-marsh habitat. Control methods include hand-pulling, herbicide application, and cutting and digging with hand tools. Interns will also assist in greenhouse propagation and planting of native [...]