Community Partner: Whitelock Community Farm
Intern: Claire Gray
Site Supervisors: Alison Worman
What is Whitelock Community Farm?
The goals of the Farm are to: pursue affordable sustainable fresh food sources, provide neighborhood job
creation, and help promote greening and positive community activity. The farm also implements its
mission through farm‐based learning programs such as gardening and cooking classes for children and
adults.
Tasks:
● Daily farm tasks included weeding, prepping beds, and
harvesting produce
● Operated the mobile market every Thursday, where we
sold our produce outside of the local café and convenient
store
● Helped staff the weekly farm stand every Saturday, where
we sold our produce and other local vendors participated in
a flea market
● Interacted with the community and showed them around
the farm space!
Food is something everyone can relate to and enjoy, and I’m so
glad I got to spend the summer enjoying food with everyone
who stopped by the farm. At the farm I learned a new thing
every day, from the importance of trellising tomatoes to how to
greet my neighbors to the season that wine berries grow. The
farm was right across the street from the bus stop, and so many
people walked by it everyday, talking to us and sharing their
experiences with growing food, cooking food, and eating food
or talking about whatever. My favorite part of the summer was
the community potlucks, where I got to see and interact with
everyone that walked by the farm every day. I’ve always known
that I wanted to be involved with sustainability and greening
efforts, but the farm has shown me how to make those efforts
inclusive and community‐driven. I’ve experienced the sense of
independence that comes with growing my own food, and I’m
so excited to continue that practice and share it with others.
I’ve also learned how much it takes to keep a farm going, and
how everyone involved needs to be able to juggle so many
different tasks, from simple, tedious things like weeding to
more complex things like planning what to plant or organizing
community events. I’m happy that throughout the internship I
got to meet so many amazing people passionate about growing
food and community engagement, each with a different a
different perspective. ‐ Claire
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