Internship Positions:  2 for May 17, 2010, through August 20, 2010.

Objective:  To expose students to the many facets of professional estate gardening, grounds management, and public horticulture; to provide students physical, hands-on experiences in horticulture, landscape, and turf; to offer informal educational sessions, garden walks, and field trips.

Description:  Draime Estate Gardens is a 9.5 acre private estate in Warren, Ohio, consisting of a collection of gardens, lawns, water features, sculptures, and hardscapes.  Specific garden areas include the Japanese, orchestral, conifer, walled, rose, vegetable, and perennial gardens.  Collections of trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, bulbs, aquatics, tropical plants, and container plantings make the Draime Estate Gardens a unique horticultural oasis.

Work Schedule:  Daily garden hours are 8:00am – 5:00pm.  General intern work schedules are up to 40 hours per week.  Interns are required to work some weekends. 

Compensation:  $10.00 per hour.  Plus pre-paid gas cards to assist with commuting expenses.  Scholarships for tuition assistance are available for interns that qualify.

Duties:  Assist staff in the maintenance of the gardens including planting, mulching, mowing, watering, pruning, propagating, weeding, deadheading, fertilizing, and pest control.  Also work with staff in maintaining water features, pathways, structures, and other hardscape elements. 

Prerequisites:  Must be a Kent State University student in good standing; must be willing to work outdoors in various weather conditions; must be willing to perform physical tasks such as lifting landscape materials, pushing wheelbarrows and carts, using gardening tools, and operating power equipment.

Application Deadline:  priority given to applications postmarked or emailed by February 1, 2010; however, applications will be accepted until all positions are filled.

To Apply:  submit current resume and list of three references including address and phone to

Paul Pfeifer
Draime Estate Gardens
Kent State University
8473 Hunters Trail SE
Warren, OH 44484
Email:  ppfeifer@kent.edu