Deep Creek Lavender Farm is a small farm located in Accident, Maryland just a few miles from Deep Creek Lake. Focusing on agrotourism, Deep Creek Lavender Farm is open weekends and Mondays through the summer and has nearly 1500 lavender plants, vegetable gardens, sunflowers, chickens, bees, composting, mushrooms, and more for visitors to see and learn.
This year’s focus, in addition to the lavender will be installation of solar panels, solar cooking, and increasing the size of the vegetable garden. The farm also has a farm store focusing on lavender based products, classes and events focused on lavender, garden tours and more.
We are close to Deep Creek Lake for boating, swimming, fishing. In addition the county is filled with great hiking, mountain biking, kayaking and other outdoor activities. The towns of Accident, Friendsville and McHenry have a great local foods vibe with Moon Shadow Café, Firefly Farms, Harvest Moon Organic Market. In addition the farm is 40 minutes from Morgantown, WV the home of West Virginia University.
The intern will work 25-40 hours per week with two weekdays off per week. The intern will have a separate small apartment at a neighboring farm within walking distance (no charge to intern). Fresh eggs and produce from the vegetable garden will be provided as well. A monthly stipend of $600 will be paid (or prorated if only a portion of the month is worked). The internship will run from Mid-May through mid-August or other agreed to dates.
We hope to learn as much from our intern about farming, agriculture, sustainability, etc. , as we teach about lavender, agrotourism, business management, networking, marketing and more.
Duties of the internship include any of the following:
Planting, pruning, harvesting lavender
Laying weedcloth
Cutting grass using tractor/riding mower
Working in the vegetable garden
Feeding chickens/cleaning coop
Teaching classes, giving tours
Making products for the store
Waiting on and checking out customers in the farm store
Assisting with marketing, advertising, events as necessary
Working with owners on farm projects: solar panels, vegetable and herb gardens, composting, etc.
Please email Anne Davidson at deepcreeklavender@gmail.com or call 240-481-9114 if interested and tell us a little about your goals and why this internship is of interest. You may check out the farm at www.DeepCreekLavenderFarm.com