Residential Internships
Residential internships offer the unique experience of living and working on a farm and wilderness preserve while learning aspects of environmental education programs, sustainability, organic agriculture, animal care, and nonprofit administration. Agriculture internships begin in Feb/March and run for a full year. Environmental Education, Community Programs & Animal Husbandry internships run from the Labor Day weekend in September until the end of August of the following year and include day and evening programs for children and families during the school year and summer camp.
General Internship Information and Application
Also see open Summer Camp positions
OPEN INTERNSHIP POSITIONS
Currently, the Agriculture Journeyman Farmer, First Year Agriculture and Community Programs internships are open and accepting applications. Please continue to check back for information on Environmental Education internships and other opportunities.
POSITIONS FILLED - PLEASE CHECK BACK
Environmental Education (5 positions): Hidden Villa’s Environmental Education Program (HVEEP) provides educational experiences for children, in the areas of farm, wilderness, and sustainability topics. HVEEP interns work alongside staff and learn to lead groups of elementary age children (primarily Preschool-4th grade) on one day on-site programs, including 1.5 hour farm tours, 5 hour farm and wilderness exploration, afternoon chores and evening programs. Interns will also have the opportunity to visit schools in the bay area to help prepare students for their Hidden Villa fieldtrip. Interns also learn to do farm chores to help care for our animals and gardens. HVEEP interns will finish their internship by working as apart of our summer camp staff and have the opportunity to work with youth ages 6-17.
September 2009 - August 2010 Positions Filled
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View "Day in the Life of an HVEEP Intern" (pdf)
POSTION OPEN
Agriculture Journeyman Farmer (1 position): The Journeyman Farmer position is a higher level farmer-in-training program geared for someone with previous farming experience. The Journeyman Farmer works in conjunction with the Agriculture Manager on field and greenhouse production for the CSA, the Community Services Agency of Mountain View, camp programs, and farmers’ market. Responsibilities focus on training and supervising first year interns, summer interns, and volunteers and on staffing the farmers’ market stand.
February 2010 - January 2011 Position Currently Open
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POSITION OPEN
Agriculture Internship (1 position): Agriculture interns work alongside Hidden Villa’s Agricultural Manager and experience the entire annual production cycle of an organic mixed vegetables and fruit farm. This position involves all aspects of working on a small-scale, direct market, organic farm.
March 2010 - February 2011 Position Currently Open
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View more information on job specifics and housing
POSITION OPEN
Community Programs (1 position): Interns will learn how to interface with the local community in order to provide information for Hidden Villa’s visitors and to assist in developing programs for adults and children. The responsibilities include teaching and leading a wide variety of classes and programs for groups and the general public. This position also requires working every weekend (Saturday and Sunday) with Tuesdays and Wednesdays off the following week.
June 1, 2010 - May 31, 2011 Position Currently Open
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POSITION FILLED
Animal Husbandry (1 position): Hidden Villa maintains a small mixed selection of farm animals including cows, sheep, goats, pigs, and chickens. The internship involves learning about the care, maintenance, and breeding of animals. This program helps support our programs for youth during the school year and summer season. It requires working every weekend (Saturday and Sunday) with Tuesdays and Wednesdays off the following week.
September 2009 - August 2010 (Position Filled)
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GENERAL INTERNSHIP INFORMATION AND APPLICATION:
COMMUNAL LIVING
Ten interns live together in the White House and adjacent Brownlee Cottage; they share a kitchen, living room and bathrooms during the school year. Four interns live in shared rooms. During the summer season, the farm is shared with camp staff, as well as the youth we serve. Summer housing assignments vary on the program area interns choose to work in. Residents participate in house meetings, chores, and cooking.
MONDAY CLASSES/FIELDTRIPS
Monday enrichment classes are provided from September-May for all interns and range in topics related to animal husbandry, sustainable agriculture, horticulture, education, and non-profit administration. Once a month the interns also go off-site to visit and network with other organizations in the community.
SUMMER PROGRAMS
Environmental Education & Community Program Interns will work as a part of our summer counseling staff, in the program of their choice; we offer programs for youth ages 6-17. Interns will also have an opportunity to apply to be summer camp Program Heads or Auxiliary Staff. All interns will be helping to develop curriculum to be used during summer camp programs.
HOW TO APPLY
Please e-mail your cover letter, a copy of your current resume and completed internship application to the below contact for the specific internship you are interested in.
Agriculture: purgreens@igc.org
Environmental Education: hveep@hiddenvilla.org
Community Programs: mpowell@hiddenvilla.org
Animal Husbandry: jobs@hiddenvilla.org
If sending your application by mail, please use the following format:
Hidden Villa Internships
Attn: Environmental Education (or specific internship you are applying for)
26870 Moody Road
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Internship application: Word PDF
For more information contact: Claire SunSpiral at finance@hiddenvilla.org
