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- Create and teach daily garden classes for K - 8th grade that incorporate: social and emotional learning principles, life science concepts, sensory/experiential activities, and horticultural and culinary practica.- Lead and manage a group of 10-17 students in an outdoor setting, delivering content that is academic, sensory, and experiential in nature.- Maintain a half-acre school garden using organic and regenerative agriculture practices such as: cover cropping, companion planting, square foot gardening; applying natural soil amendments and pest repellents; and creating perennial systems.- Coordinate garden maintenance duties with the network garden manager.- Introduce tropical and subtropical plants, and test their adaptability to the local climate.- Supervise gardeners and volunteers.- Assist in school and organization events.- Assist with Spanish translations.

- Build a turkey coop using stick framing techniques.- Use woodworking machinery to build end-grain cutting boards.- Assist with the daily maintenance of a vegetable garden and greenhouse.- Assist with the daily caring of goats and chickens.

- Prepare vegetable production beds using regenerative practices (mowing, solarizing, weeding, cover cropping)- Pick fruit using ladders and pole-pickers.- Harvest, clean, and packag produce for sale at a farmers’ market.- Repair irrigation systems.- Provide consultation for long-term orchard maintenance plan.

- Conduct animal husbandry (goats, poultry, bees, donkeys, and rabbits). - Prepare artisanal soap- Maintain vegetable beds and greenhouse.

- Conduct proper pruning, felling, and clearing of trees.- Create and manage hiking trails.- Conduct reforestation projects.- Collect and propagate seeds of native trees.- Build and maintain minor wooden structures.- Operate and maintain heavy equipment (aerial lift, lawn mower, skid-steer loader, dump truck, tractor), chainsaws, and hand tools.- Assist in general landscape maintenance.- Conduct proper application of herbicides and pesticides.- Assist in teaching tree climbing classes.- Supervise volunteers and student-workers.

- Educate farmers about best management practices in soil conservation, crop management, horticulture, animal husbandry, and home economics. - Design and teach a year-long ‘Agroecology and Horticulture' course at a local agricultural high school for two years.- Facilitate technical sessions for new Peace Corps volunteers.- Develop and maintain a demonstration plot implementing regenerative agricultural practices.

- Prune and trim shrubs, small and large trees, and fruit trees. - Identify and remove invasive or aggressive plants. - Diagnose and treat nutrient, disease, and pest problems with chemical and natural solutions. - Propagate plants outdoors and indoors.- Perform beekeeping and wild beehive removal.- Assist in the maintenance of the butterfly laboratory and house.- Conduct ecological restoration and monitoring in various natural ecosystems of South Florida. - Maintain and configure irrigation systems. - Supervise volunteers.

- Install and maintain a plant nursery using natural amendments made on-site.- Cultivate annual, perennial, edible, medicinal, and useful plants.- Compost food scraps collected from a local restaurant.- Maintain a vermiculture system. - Assist in landscape installations.

- Manage all areas of a community organic garden, including: plant nursery, vegetable beds, fruit orchard, food forest, compost and vermiculture. - Harvest and sell produce at the farmers’ market on campus. - Supervise and educate students, volunteers and the public. - Install and maintain rainwater harvesting and irrigation systems. - Organize and lead social events and horticultural workshops for children and adults.

- Study the production, distribution, regulation, social impact, and environmental impact of biofuels in Karnataka, India.- Study tropical oilseed crops that can be used to reforest barren land; to regenerate infertile fields; to provide a source of fuel for villages not connected to the electricity grid, or which experience constant blackouts; and to also provide an alternative to fossil fuels in the public transportation sector.

- Design, install and maintain a food forest and vegetable production beds using permaculture design and agroecological principles. - Harvest, clean and package produce. - Perform weekly inventories of available produce to be then posted on the online food hub.- Install and maintain manual irrigation systems. - Conduct agricultural education with children from a housing project for formerly homeless people.- Care for chickens and cows.

- Conduct animal husbandry (chickens, cows, horses, sheep, goats, geese, and rabbits). - Prepare artisanal cheeses, bread, wine, jams, preserves and dried fruits. - Maintain vegetable beds and production greenhouses. - Follow biodynamic farming guidelines.

- Collect data on foraging patterns of native bees on native flowering shrubs in high-altitude Appalachian forests. - Collect, identify and pin bees under a microscope. - Produce information that can be applied to the conservation of forest resources, and the agroecological development of blueberry farms.