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Farm internship details & benefits
...socio-economic demographics, sexual and gender orientations. I’m ready to apply Interns hard at work harvesting certified organic veggies for market. What to expect Specific duties vary depending on the time of the year, but will largely revolve around regular small farm operations. Interns work approximately 35-40 hours per week. Because we are a working farm, interns will be expected to work some weekends and also may be tasked with securing the chickens and farm buildings in the evening. Daily tasks...
June 14, 2026: Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Gospel: Matthew 9:36-10:8 At the sight of the crowds, Jesus’ heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.” Then he summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and...
Living Laudato Si’ at the Woods
...animals. Volunteers may assist in the gardens with tasks such as bed preparation, transplanting in the high tunnel, weeding, harvesting produce, washing and packing vegetables or seeding crops for future harvests. Morning volunteer opportunities are also available for animal care. These chores include mucking barns, filling hay, cleaning and refilling water buckets, caring for the chickens and collecting eggs. In pleasant days, volunteers may also help maintain and clean the pastures. Garden and animal care tasks involve heavy lifting and...
Heading into the ‘Persephone’ Period
...percent mature if you want to harvest during the winter months. Keep an eye on those crops because they may need additional protection. You can use row covers or low tunnels in order for the harvest to carry into winter. Vegetables with roots will do well with additional mulch before a hard freeze to keep them warm. And only harvest in temperatures above freezing. Crops that can handle frost will be damaged if you harvest them before they’ve warmed up....
Blessing a summer harvest prayer ritual
The first harvest of the year is celebrated in August (and in February in the Southern Hemisphere) when fruits and vegetables are plentiful. This is a time to honor what we have, especially abundance, just as generations before us did and, if we care for Earth, those after us will. Notice the festivals of prosperity that mark this season. Farmer’s markets are full of the abundance of this first harvest of the year. County fairs showcase beautiful, tasty vegetables and...
July 23, 2023: Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
...the weeds come from?’ “He answered, ‘An enemy has done this.’ And his slaves said to him, ‘Do you want us to go and pull them up?’ He replied, ‘No, if you pull up the weeds you might uproot the wheat along with them. Let them grow together until harvest; then at harvest time I will say to the harvesters, ‘First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles for burning; but gather the wheat into my barn.”’ He proposed...
Organic gardening, alpaca and fiber arts internships
Transform yourself and transform the world at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice (WVC), Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, near Terre Haute. At White Violet Center for Eco-Justice, a ministry of the Sisters of Providence, you’ll find 320 acres of forestland, a 5-acre organic garden, a 2-acre orchard, berries, about 150 laying chickens, and a herd of about 40 alpacas. It’s all very hands-on. Expect to work outdoors for hours at a time planting, harvesting and weeding in the certified organic garden and...
Must sees
...this stunning, sacred space Saint Anne Shell Chapel Completed in 1875, this chapel is the oldest structure on campus. In 1843, Mother Theodore had returned to France to secure funds when arson destroyed the sisters’ barns, farm implements, and harvest. On her return voyage, her ship was caught in a storm. Fearing that death was imminent, Mother Theodore prayed to Saint Anne, the patron saint of Breton sailors. Immediately the ship righted, and the sea calmed. Upon her safe return...
Get involved
...tour groups and sharing your clerical skills to assisting with activities in our health care and providing transportation for sisters. Are you a graduating college senior or perhaps you just retired? Take a break from the ordinary and become an intern at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice. Spend three months to a year harvesting vegetables from the organic garden, helping shear alpacas, learning to spin fiber, weave or knit – the sky is the limit! Perhaps you’re looking for a...
History Timeline 1840-1926
...Theodore and her companions arrive in 1840, they are warmly welcomed into the Thralls family farmhouse. The sisters soon plant gardens and tend to livestock. Over the years they also harvest honey and build a dairy barn. In 1921, workers combine seven ravines in the north woods to create beautiful Saint Joseph’s Lake. 1854 Railroad cars pass through Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, connecting Saint Mary’s to other towns. Mail now delivered daily to the convent. 1854 Dogma of the Immaculate Conception proclaimed....
Sister Dorothy Gartland (formerly Sister Margaret Eugene)
...reading of the liturgy of Christmas day was this passage from the prophet Isaiah: The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who lived in land of deep darkness on them a light has shined. You have multiplied the nation, you have increased joy; they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest … For the yoke of their burden, and the bar that rests across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor you have...
From Backyard Gardening to Small-Scale Farming: What a Difference a Team Makes!
...garage, pull out some tools, scrap wood, and hardware and create a solution for tomatoes that had overgrown their cages, or supports for beans that turned out to be of the vining variety instead of bush-style like we thought (oops!). A bountiful harvest. While the infrastructure we use on the farm is more of the tried-and-true variety than the cobbled-together one, ingenuity still applies. Instead of the brainpower of two, we have folks coming together with diverse backgrounds all contributing....