Interns
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About Us
Jim Grube, Executive Director SlackFarmsFoundation jim@slackfarmsfoundation.org 301-247-8800
Kate Harris, Director SlackWorks & Walk the Farms kate.woodlawnfarm@icloud.com 240-925-5472
Ten Years of InnovatiVE FARM SKILLS PROGRAMS
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Since 2015 Slack Farms has supported over sixty farm interns who have helped us develop workshops about plants and gardens, trees and woodlands, and basic land stewardship and conservation. Interns hail from local places and abroad and they have cleared brush, opened trails, installed signs and learned a few specialty skills including tool & equipment care, wallpapering, signage and fencing installation, and landscape and garden design and maintenance. All of this is taught as part of our stewardship of fields, forests and water resources. We’ve engaged with partners locally in St. Mary’s County, as well as schools and programs abroad in Austria and Ukraine to further the role of farms as part of the creative process that benefits communities.
Learn more about the Slack Farms Foundation and support a Slack Farms Intern. Supporting an intern brings young people from our community and from around the world to share farm skills training with us.
“I am insanely grateful that I had a chance to live and work with you last summer. Thank you for lettinging me stay with you when I needed it so much as well as for teaching me enology, planting and Amish culture.” — Mikhail “Misha” Chertilin, 2023 Slack Farms Ukrainian Intern
2023 SlackWorks Interns
Interns arriving from several European cities on flights into Dulles airport. Two days later, the 2023 Slack Interns were cleaning out the old goat pen. Great compost for the gardens, and a new home for the geese.
Above: A 2023 Project: Transforming an old goat house into a comfortable pen for ducks and geese. Good compost material is being recycled for the gardens.