The Healing Garden, located within the Hilltop Garden and Nature Center at Indiana University, is looking for IU students to intern over the summer. 

What is The Healing Garden

Founded in 2021, it's purpose is to be a space for healing ancestral traumas, processing homeland disconnections, and expressing multicultural stories through plants. They also teach farming practices with the community, host events, and share seeds. 

Summer Internship

If you like to be outside, learn about garden ecologies, and are good at both teamwork and self-driven work, this is the role for you. Gardening or farming experience is preferred, but can be taught. Applicants must be able to work outside in varied conditions, carry 40 pounds, and work early mornings and late afternoons to avoid peak summer sun.

As an intern, you will learn about regenerative farming practices, food justice and food redistribution in Bloomington, and community engagement through garden events. 

The internship takes place from April 6 to August 22, 2026. The intern will get paid $15 an hour, and work 15 hours a week. There is one group work day a week—other hours are flexible. 

How to Apply

Send a cover letter, resume, and a contact for one reference in PDF to Dr. Olga Kalentzidou at okalentz@iu.edu. 

Cover Letter: In one page explain how your past experience, motivation to work in an urban garden, and your knowledge and skills will contribute to the mission of the Healing Garden and your learning. Also indicate whether and when you anticipate being away from Bloomington during May through August.

Please apply by Monday, March 9.