City Sprouts Farm Local Food Systems Intern

worked on site at City Sprouts Farm in the Birchwood Neighborhood of Bellingham, which has historically been classified as a food desert. I worked with several different facets of our local food system, including a small-scale urban farm and food pantries on campus. I spent my internship doing several tasks to wrap up the farm for the season and prepare it for winter, including harvesting and processing the last of the season’s produce, winter bed prep, and preparing other structures on the farm for the cold and wet winter weather. The goal of this program was to add to food access resources in Bellingham while teaching student interns about our local food systems in hands-on ways. I got to do this by having discussions and doing hands on work with like-minded people. I also got to learn different skills from the ones I had learned in my previous two internships/apprenticeships at this farm, because of the vastly different tasks that happen at different times in the farm season.