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2011 CEL Internships – Build & Grow

admin — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 21:15:17 +0000

BUILD & GROW: Education, transformation, experience.

Hello, and thanks for visiting this page.

2011 CEL Internship and Task List (click here for PDF)

Contact: food@eatyouryard.com; 206-708-9298 (Michael)

We are a company looking to build community with whomever we work. This is an unpaid internship with the possibility of becoming a part time hourly position as the season progresses and our work level increases. This depends on CEL’s workload and your demonstration of capacity.

Along with your resume please send cover letter which addresses the following questions:

What inspires you about CEL?
How will CEL serve you?
What experience do you want to gain?

o Talk about specific aspects of CEL you are interested in learning/Experience you would like to gain: Plant Propagation, labor, irrigation, Marketing, Promotion, website, etc

What do you bring?

o Skills, Past experience (even semi) related to CEL mission/goals?

o Your Strengths, Passions, etc.

o Aspects of yourself you would like to grow.

Schedule How many (and which) Hours Per week are you interested in investing in CEL? ________
Please tell us anything else about yourself you’d like to share, and feel free to ask us anything.
Lastly, Thanks you for your time.

In community, Michael Seliga & Jake Harris, CEL partners & General Garden Gnomes

Intern TO DO list 2011

1. Greenhouse

a. Greenhouse Site: clearing and Filling Up with plants —January/February

b. Plant Propagation of Perennials & Herbs (January-March)

c. Plant Propagation of Annuals (February- June [summer too])

i. Planting/Packing Parties. 1 Each per quarter

d. Maintenance: seedling, thinning, watering, potting-up etc February-June (summer too)

i. Keeping Site orderly (all year)

2. CSPS

a. Program Support (1 person-2-5 hours/week)

i. Sales /Communications: finding community leaders to champion the program for us.

ii. Setting up drop off sites (Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, Wallingford, Maple Leaf)

iii. Newsletter Development (1 person, 4-6 hours per season)

3. Education/Consultation –

a. Help Putting together consultation packets and plant lists (1 person – 1 day) mpiling plant lis

4. Landscape Construction/Garden Maintenance (pruning, irrigation, cistern, building beds, sod cutting, etc)

a. Must be in good physical shape, be able to lift 40lbs

b. Compensated Labor on projects you find.

5. Marketing, Outreach Up to 10 hours/week.

a. Special Tabling and Networking Events

b. Website Updates, development, polishing

i. Video, Slideshow, info, Viral Marketing

c. **Garden Node Facilitation: Contact community groups and help CEL Staff with Meeting organization/facilitation

d. Farmers Markets Support with CEL Staff & youth intern

i. (1x/week, 12 week Commitment March-early June)

6. Just Garden Project/ Spring into Bed (May 14^th 20111)

a. ”Sod Cutting Spree(s)” (Dates TBA) –

b. Work with JGP manager to implement strategy & develop event where people build gardens across the city in a coordinated effort.

c. Connect with people from different agencies/companies

d. Champion a Garden & Support a low income gardener: Fundraise and help build garden on day of event

CEL on Soul of Seattle Radio

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:18:55 +0000

http://cbskptkam.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/soul-of-seattle-neighborhood-radio-show-27-podcast.mp3

Sod Cutting Spree–Lawns meet their Doom

Michael — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 04:11:53 +0000

Partl fund-raiser for SPRING INTO BED, and part to fulfill a long held fantasy of Michael Seliga (CEL co-owner), on April 24th 2010 Cascadian Edible Landscapes will be hosting a promotional day of Sod Cutting across Seattle.

About Sod Cutting Spree is:

We send a team, a truck, and a sod cutter out to cut the sod for all the willing neighbors in a neighborhood/community. We remove lawns for as many people in 1 day as possible.
We cut and roll up sod as quickly as possible.
- NOTE: We can cut several hundred square feet in a couple of hours.
Minimum charge will be $80 (2 labor hours) to make sure we cover transportation and admin.
- Removal of sod can be done on a different day for additional time/cost.
CEL tracks each team’s effort. Winning team will be awarded a prize (TBD)

All proceeds (after CEL covers costs), will go towards CEL’s $1000 contribution to Spring Into Bed (SIB). The $1000 contribution towards SIB will be used to build a (lower income) family a set a garden beds NOW, and will help another family get their garden going later.

If you and your neighbors would like to participate in this event and have sod ripped out, hooray for you and please contact us right away.

Thanks and talk to you soon,

CEL

CEL’s 2009 Goals

Michael — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:29:00 +0000

Hello! Here are CELs’ Goals for 2009.

1. Focus on creating Community Scale Edible Landscapes, aka “Garden Nodes” AND teach classes in neighborhoods so people can learn in their own contexts. We are looking to move beyond individual landscape projects. Doing this will make managing projects (less admin.) and educating gardeners more efficient. Plus, we will be able to reduce our carbon footprint (drive around less). CEL is actively looking for community partnerships, individuals to help develop this concept, and promoters to spread the gospel.

2. Trade CEL’s work —building gardens in the community– for housing. That is, in exchange for subsidized or free rent, we will build gardens for low income individuals in the name of the sponsor. For every $500 of value in rent, we’ll provide $500 in labor (which is about enough to build 1-2 basic vegetable gardens and educate those gardeners).
3. Sustainably expand the Plant Start and Perrenial Plant sales. (A) Community Supported Plant Starts Program (30-50 members committed in February). (B) Selling at 2-3 Farmers markets in Springtime. (C) Attend Tilth Sales, WSU Master Gardeners Sale and other plant/local food events

4.Increase business to sustain three or four, ¾ time worker-partners, at living wages. Build long term partnerships with people, who share CEL’s vision.