We offer for-credit internship opportunities for enrolled UC Santa Cruz students, listed below. Available opportunities vary each quarter. Center for Agroecology internships are run through the UCSC Environmental Studies Department’s Internship Office. Please read and follow the Internship Office instructions for internship programming carefully, as the Internship Office is the entity that manages all the official enrollment requirements and evaluations.

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Site-based internships

Join us for a 2- or 5-unit internship working at one or more of the locations listed below. You will select specific days/times in the sign-up form; days/times/locations vary each quarter, with the most up-to-date information listed in the sign-up form below.

• Alan Chadwick Garden – 3-acre organic garden located on upper campus near Merrill College
• Cowell Coffee Shop – non-transactional cafe that prepares and serves food and beverages to students at no cost
• Produce Pop-Up – twice-weekly campus farm stand with produce from the campus farm and other local farms at a discounted rate
• Farm Garden (UCSC Farm) – hand-worked garden on the 30-acre organic campus farm
• Field (UCSC Farm) – tractor-cultivated row crops and an orchard on the campus farm that focuses production for Basic Needs programs

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Campus Food and Garden Guide internship

The Campus Food and Garden Guide is a student-produced annual magazine. This internship will involve assisting in all aspects of research, outreach, compiling, writing, editing, and design. Tasks may include: reaching out to campus and community organizations to get updated contact and job/internship opportunities, interviewing students working in food systems, compiling information about agroecology-related courses, writing a column/opinion/feature article about an aspect of food systems you care about, helping choose a design theme and run a cover art contest.

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Real Food Calculator internship

Are you interested in real and sustainable food procurement on campus? Are you goal oriented, organized, and motivated? Consider interning with Real Food Calculator, a team of students that investigates and analyzes thousands of UCSC Dining purchases, classifying each product by whether the item is “Real Food,” (defined as fulfilling at least one of the four categories: local, fair, ecologically sound, and humane) or not, and indicating whether the product is plant-based or not.

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Student-led garden internships

The Black Lives Matter Garden is a space meant to honor the indigenous land that we are on and memorialize lives lost by state violence. The garden offers a space where BIPOC students can meditate, congregate, and heal. The Community Herb Garden is a BIPOC-centered garden space committed to uplifting ancestral knowledge of herbal medicine. Both gardens are located at the UCSC Farm and each offer internships for students. To learn more about internship opportunities at one or both of the gardens, contact Ximena Moura, staff advisor.