by elo5072 | Apr 13, 2020 | Intern Stories
I am Eric Gurklis. I am a first-year Environmental Resource Management student from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I have not always been interested in farming, but over the last couple years, I have volunteered at community gardens and had fun. Through working with the...
by elo5072 | Nov 20, 2019 | Intern Stories, Student Farm Club, Student Stories
I remember receiving a handout from an incredibly enthusiastic student with writing that said “nothing beets the student farm club” at the Fall involvement fair my freshman year. I signed up for the listserv and appreciated the veggie pun. I slowly started going to...
by aef5357 | Apr 17, 2019 | Intern Stories, Student Stories
Hello! My name is Lana. My journey on the transition from the world of urban agriculture to the Student Farm at Penn State proves to be the best learning experience I have had in my college experience yet. I truly feel like I have learned more throughout this journey...
by aef5357 | Apr 17, 2019 | Intern Stories
My name is Abigail Kerr, I am a Junior Animal Science Major and one of the 2019 Student Farm Interns! How does an animal science student find her way into a plant based program? Firstly, I was looking for a bit of an adventure and to broaden my horizons. Secondly,...
by aef5357 | Apr 10, 2019 | Intern Stories
What do you hope to learn by working with the Student Farm? I hope that working on the farm this summer will give me hands-on insight into sustainable agriculture, which is one of the main tenets of the reversal of climate change. I want to see things from the view of...
by aef5357 | Apr 2, 2019 | Intern Stories, Student Stories
Hi everybody! My name is Mikaela, and I am an intern on the Student Farm this summer! As an English major, I get a lot of questions about why I’ve chosen to spend my summer working on the farm. So, I chose to apply to be an intern on the farm after seeing an...