Summer internship

MAHWAH ENVIRONMENTAL VOLUNTEERS ORGANIZATION & NEW YORK-NEW JERSEY TRAIL CONFERENCE COLLECTIVE INTERNSHIP RAMAPOUGH EARTH CREW SUMMER of 2015

What are you doing this summer? Do you like to help people and the environment, would you like to... -Build Trails -Design and Build a Farm -Empower Local Communities -Inspire Cultural and Political Change -Clean up Local Forests -Or Organize Volunteer Events In correlation with the New York New Jersey Trail Conference, MEVO a non-profit organization in Bergen County New Jersey is running two internship programs this summer.

The first, “Earth Crew” will work side by side with the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference to build trails, and restore forest ecology. On top of this the Earth Crew will be planning large-scale volunteer events, attending town meetings to pull for environmental justice, installing compost and recycling systems around local communities, and more. While Earth Crew is working on preserving and stewarding our local forest lands and communities, “Farm Crew” will be working with 2 acres of land in the Campgaw Mountain preserve designing and building a farm! You will work closely with professionals and young empowered youth to create a food producing farm that will feed our local communities. All at the same time you will be harvesting honey from our bee hives and teaching youth on the importance of organic food production and local farms.

Sound Interesting? Contact Ryan Martens at 201-414-4079, or ryan.martens@rutgers.edu for more information.