Number Available: 7
Application Deadline: March 15, 2010
Duration: 10-12 weeks
Compensation: $10.57/hr
Housing: Each student is assigned a room in our dormitory complex located in the beautiful Haybarn. Amenities include heating and air conditioning, a common kitchen, lounge, cable television, and a washer and dryer.
Contact: Peter Atkins, Assistant Director
Telephone: 516-922-8602
Fax: 516-922-8610
Send a letter of intent to us stating why you are interested in applying for the internship. The application form and information packet will then be provided. Completed applications should include official transcripts, a resume, and three letters of reference.
Grounds maintenance interns need a passion for working in a public garden and flexibility to perform a wide variety of tasks. They will receive practical, hands-on experience in all phases of maintenance, landscape design and enhancement of a diverse collection of horticultural plant collections within the 409 acre arboretum, as well as classroom/academic instruction. Planting Fields is an intact historic estate designed by the Olmsted Brothers. It is an active arboretum with many unusual greenhouse and hardy plant collections. General duties will include planting, pruning, and watering, weeding, mulching and garden renovation.
Other Information: The interns will also help to maintain and enhance many special gardens such as the Dwarf Conifer Garden, Hydrangea Garden, Woodland Garden, Synoptic Garden, Rhododendron Collection and Formal Gardens. All interns are invited to participate in near-weekly educational field trips to private and public gardens, nurseries and growers on Long Island and the surrounding areas.
Frequently Asked Questions:
What are the hours of operation?
Interns work a forty-hour week, Monday through Friday. Hours of operation vary from department to department. Occasionally earlier and later hours may be required
Grounds Maintenance department - usually 7:00am to 3:30pm
Main Greenhouse department - usually 8:00am to 4:30pm
Do all interns start and end their appointment at the same time?
No. Interns can start as early as May 1 and can remain for as many as 12 weeks
Preference will be given to those who can work through Labor Day
Composition of the intern applicants?
We do accept qualified international students. Acquiring visas, payment of fees and all required documentation are the responsibilities of the student.
Applicants are usually from throughout the fifty-two United States and Europe
Notification of acceptance.
Interns will be notified by mid-April, if not earlier.