NTHP Historical Landscape and Horticulture Internship-PAID

Description

The NTHP Historical Landscape and Horticulture Internship is open to upper-division undergraduate students and graduate students of any level who are pursuing a degree in landscape architecture, landscape design, horticulture, or a related field. To be considered for this role, you should possess strong strong hand graphics, digital graphic, analytical, communication, problem-solving, organizational, collaboration, and Microsoft Office skills. Familiarity with Auto CAD, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe inDesign is also required. Bilingual students, especially English/Spanish, may be given preference. As an intern, you will assist with restoration of the Chesterwood Buildings and Grounds in Stockbridge, MA. You will create worksheets describing the individual varieties of plants being planted in the garden, create a PDF document containing the varieties of plants that will be returning to the garden, and create an aesthetically pleasing and intelligible plan view graphic showing the plant species according to their location in the plant bed. Overall, you will gain hands-on experience in historic preservation, horticulture, and landscape preservation/maintenance/construction.