Erin Axelrod, who graduated from Barnard College last week with an urban studies degree, will not be fighting over the bathroom with her five roommates on the Upper West Side this summer. Instead she will be living in a tent, using an outdoor composting toilet and harvesting vegetables on an organic farm near Petaluma, Calif. (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/dining/24interns.html?_r=1&emc=eta1)

This is a trend that I have am witnessing directly in my own town, Tim Van Wagner’s organization, Living Lands Agrarian Network focuses heavily on an educational component directed at young emerging farmers, many of whom are fresh from university life.

The article in the NYtimes goes on site the many reasons young people are choosing to intern of organic farms instead of corporate high rises……the economy is so bad that living and working out of doors is much more appealing than living in cash stretched cities…..having an opportunity to put your values into action…….a return to traditional values.

To find more information on organic internships, check out www.thegreenhorns.org, organicvolunteers.org

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