About this Event
Asawana Farms is offering unpaid hands-on internships to University Students registered in Sustainable Urban Agriculture Certificate Programs at various colleges and universities around the DMV area. Students can earn Internship hours as part of their academic studies. The Internship program runs from April 19 – September 29, 2025.
The hands-on will be on Saturdays & Sundays from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., at Asawana Farms and will include tours and hands-on experiential learning sessions.
Hands-on Sessions will include:
· How to make your own organic compost
· Crop Pest and Disease Management at Asawana Farms
· Food as Medicine vegetables grown at Asawana Farms
· How to plant various specialty vegetables
· How we produce our own liquid fertilizer using comfrey that we grow
· Farm safety
· Nursing of vegetable seedlings
· Making & using low cost vertical gardens
· Transplanting of seedlings into the field after hardening
· Drip irrigation set up.
For more information about asawana farms, please visit: www.asawanafarms.com; @asawana.farms; @asawanafarms.
Please Read
VOLUNTEER MEDIA AND LIABILITY WAIVER AND SIGN IN
Waiver of Liability & Release: I do hereby represent that - I recognize this is a working farm & activities may include construction & farming -related physical work & understand the dangers & risks inherent in volunteering; I'm submitting this Waiver of Liability & Release declaration voluntarily & of my own free will; I will inform ECO City Farms staff of any physical or emotional problems, or any history thereof, which will impair my ability to safely volunteer for ECO City Farms & agree to abide by all rules both posted & provided by staff while engaged in volunteering; I hold harmless & agree to indemnify ECO City Farms, its officers, directors, employees, agents & volunteers from all claims, liability, & damages I may sustain from any bodily injury, personal injury or property damage which may occur from any cause, including negligence, before, during or after any activity I engage in at this site; I irrevocably grant ECO City Farms and its agents the exclusive right to publish & reproduce my name, image and likeness for any purpose including promotion, advertising or other purposes; & I acknowledge that I have read & understand this entire Waiver of Liability & Release, & I agree to be legally bound by it. Every member of a group is bound by this Waiver even when only one person signs up on behalf of the group.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
601 Watkins Park Dr, 601 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro, United States
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