Internship Opportunity

Willie’s Wheat Grass - Okeechobee, FL.

Internship Opportunities

Process Description:

Willie’s Wheat grass is concerned with natural farming.  Learn how Willie’s Wheat Grass produces wheat grass and other crops on a weekly basis.    Here on our farm located just outside of Okeechobee we have 4 types of internship learning opportunities available.

The First Internship opportunity is to learn and participate in a greenhouse operation and production of Wheatgrass and MicroGreens sold on a wholesale level to Health Food retail locations. This is a fast paced manual labor operation with weekly harvests.  Each week, the manual process begins of soaking seeds, sowing and processing.  This will require shoveling of soil, carrying trays/cleaning, planting, soaking seeds, cleaning and maintaining processing rooms and greenhouse, harvesting and prepping product for delivery.

 The Second Internship opportunity is to learn and participate in a wholesale nursery of edible plants.  This position requires heavy lifting, shoveling, planting, weeding, possibly construction of new shadehouses, maintaining existing shadehouses, prepping plants for deliveries. 

 The Third Internship opportunity is to learn field growing of specialty peppers.  This position requires planting, harvesting, prepping peppers for shipping.  The peppers grown are extremely hot and the intern would be required to wear protective clothing in the harvesting and processing of the peppers.

 The Fourth Internship opportunity is to work hands on in animal husbandry.   We have many hands on opportunities with this from small ruminants, poultry, game birds, swine, and rabbits.  This would include full caretaking of animals including but not limited to cleaning pens, mending fences, feeding, etc.

 Tools used include shovels, hoes, shears, and knives, hammers, saws etc.

Anyone allergic to animals or wheat or peppers or other produce should not apply.  Must be willing and able to do physical labor as this is a manual farm.

**PLEASE NOTE THESE ARE UNPAID INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES**

If interested in any of the above opportunities please contact:

Jennifer Blank @ 954-648-5599

Please state which opportunity you are interested in when calling.  Thank you!

CALS Honors Requirements

CALS Honors Thesis

For requirements and information

http://cals.ufl.edu/current_students/requirements.shtml

Q: What is an Honors thesis?

A: A written report of a creative, scholarly project dealing with teaching, research, or outreach. It has clear objectives and conclusions and involves original, independent work of the student. It is NOT a book report or literature review of a topic, an opinion paper on why something is good or bad, or a paper that lacks novel and critical analysis.
              

Q: What are the deadlines for thesis proposals and submitting a final thesis?
                       
A. If you are graduating Spring 2013:

• Proposal is due to CALS Honors Director by Friday September 28, 2012
• Thesis due to CALS Honors Director by Friday April 12, 2013

Q: How long is a typical CALS thesis?

A: There is no length requirement; typically theses are 10-50 pages double spaced, not counting figures, tables, literature cited, and appendices. The focus is quality, not quantity.


Q: Should I do an honors thesis?

A: Yes, if you:

• meet the Honors Admission and Graduation requirements for the CALS Honors Program
• wish to graduate from UF with magna or summa cum laude Latin Honors
• like to work one-on-one with distinguished faculty
• can devote up to several hours per week to your project
• are self-motivated and manage time effectively
• wish to enhance your qualifications for graduate or professional school admission