The Lund Fellows Program for Regenerative Agriculture provides Cornell undergraduate students across disciplines with the opportunity to broaden their perspectives and understanding of natural ecosystems and to learn about ecological and social approaches to agricultural systems. 

The Lund Fellows Program provides students opportunities to gain applied experience working on an agroecological farm and contribute to the farm in meaningful and helpful ways, while learning about the process and considerations involved in managing such an enterprise.

We work to spread awareness about the value and mission of agroecological biodynamic, organic, regenerative, and sustainable approaches to farming, strengthen relationships between the university and local farms and provide assistance to small farms that could not otherwise fund summer internships. 

Host farms participating in the Lund Fellows Program were prioritized based on the following values:  

• Explicitly uses agroecological, biodynamic and/or organic farming methods
• Diversified farm (not just certified organic with industrial farming approach)
• Small-scale farm (less than 200 hectares)
• Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) farmers when possible

Internship description

Those who come to work at the farm are expected to learn and experience homesteading and farming by participating in routine chores, cleaning and organizing for general farm maintenance, and working on various, seasonal farm crew projects. With this, interns must be able to lift at least 50 pounds and perform manual labor on a regular basis and not be allergic to hay. Onsite housing is available.

Basic Qualifications and Preferred Experience

Interns would preferably have their own vehicles as we are very rural. Individuals must be able to lift 50lbs with out a problem and not have allergies to hay or animals (there is a lot of both). We do not allow interns to bring pets. 

We have a SOP for anyone coming to work on the farm. Interns should have a valid drivers license and a vehicle. 

Internship schedule 

What a typical day is for an intern at MBF:

Tuesday–Saturday 8am-4pm

8–9am animal chores / milking

9–10am morning project

9:30–10:30am morning break

10:30am continue with projects

12pm livestock chores

1pm lunch 

2pm afternoon project

3:30pm afternoon chores and say goodnight to the animals

Seasonal Projects:

Spring: Sugaring, orchard maintenance, planting, lambing, seeding, calving, deep cleaning, putting up fencing, big barn clean outs, chicks, weeding

Summer: Lambing, calving, planting, orchard maintenance, rotational grazing, deep cleaning, weeding

About the farm

We are a beautiful farm/homestead situated in Windham, Vermont, with a 200-year-old classic farmhouse at the heart of it. Our mountainside farm, established in 2007, is focused on agroecology, and creating educational programs for children. Meadows Bee Farm sustains a permaculture-oriented structure via its many ponds, streams, wild and heritage apple and other perennial fruit trees growing throughout the orchards. We raise heritage breed livestock such as sheep for meat and fiber, turkeys and chickens for eggs and meat, and raise dairy cows for milk, cheese, and yogurt.