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Welcome to the Herb Society of America, Baton Rouge Unit
HSABR Garden Internship Program
In 2021, The Herb Society of America – Baton Rouge Unit established an annual Garden Internship Program, to enable a college or university student to gain professional experience in two public gardens in Baton Rouge that are under the care of the Baton Rouge Unit. The Intern must be an enrolled student in a college or university, have an interest in gardening, an interest in a career working with plants, especially herbs, and be able to do hands-on gardening and record-keeping. The total yearly Internship grant is $1500 and consists of three seasonal terms. Applicants may apply for all or any of the three terms.
The one-time $1500 grant consists of $500 each term: Spring (Jan. – May), Summer (June-Aug.), Fall (Sept. – Dec.) and includes membership in the Herb Society of America.
Internship grants can be awarded for each term, or two terms, or the entire year at the discretion of the Executive Committee. Applications must be received by January 1, 2022.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Intern and the Baton Rouge Unit:
Intern’s Garden Responsibilities:
Intern’s Unit Responsibilities:
Intern’s HSA Southeast District Responsibilities:
Intern’s HSA National Responsibilities:
Baton Rouge Unit’s Responsibilities to the Intern:
Performance Review
In 2021, The Herb Society of America – Baton Rouge Unit established an annual Garden Internship Program, to enable a college or university student to gain professional experience in two public gardens in Baton Rouge that are under the care of the Baton Rouge Unit. The Intern must be an enrolled student in a college or university, have an interest in gardening, an interest in a career working with plants, especially herbs, and be able to do hands-on gardening and record-keeping. The total yearly Internship grant is $1500 and consists of three seasonal terms. Applicants may apply for all or any of the three terms.
The one-time $1500 grant consists of $500 each term: Spring (Jan. – May), Summer (June-Aug.), Fall (Sept. – Dec.) and includes membership in the Herb Society of America.
Internship grants can be awarded for each term, or two terms, or the entire year at the discretion of the Executive Committee. Applications must be received by January 1, 2022.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Intern and the Baton Rouge Unit:
Intern’s Garden Responsibilities:
- Work in Heritage and Sensory Gardens
- Work 15 hands-on gardening hours each term:
- Make and maintain plant labels with common and Latin names
- Maintain the gardens: weeding, trimming, replacing plants, seasonal planting
- Work with Co-chairs, Worker Bees, and BREC crews at the Sensory Garden
- Work with co-chairs, volunteers, and Burden staff at the Heritage Garden
- Prepare for and give garden tours at both gardens
- One 1-hour tour per garden per term, explaining to visitors concepts of gardens, choices of plants, uses of plants, information on growing plants
- The Unit will coordinate marketing, inviting groups, and set-up
- Work 15 hands-on gardening hours each term:
- Maintain a weekly journal in brief narrative format, covering dates, sites, tasks, hours, and issues, including noting the number of visitors to the gardens while the Intern was there
Intern’s Unit Responsibilities:
- The Intern’s supervisors are the Unit’s Garden Chairs and Co-Chairs
- The Intern will:
- Report to the Garden Chairs what and how many plants are needed for each garden
- Report issues of plant health, design, collaboration, watering, mulching, and other relevant issues to Garden Chairs and the HSABR board
- Attend at least two HSABR monthly meetings per term (last Thursday of the month from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.)
- Help set up the meeting room before those meetings, and help clean up afterward
- Make a 20–30-minute presentation at one monthly meeting each year.
- Topic should be an educational talk about herbs and must be approved by Board
- Learn about the Herb Society of America as a whole.
Intern’s HSA Southeast District Responsibilities:
- Contribute an article of 150–200 words about the gardens and/or the unit’s activities with pictures
- Submit to the Unit Chair for inclusion in the BR Unit report for the Southeast District quarterly newsletter; promotes regional publication recognition
Intern’s HSA National Responsibilities:
- Contribute short reports of 150–200 words each term
- Can be member/unit specific, anniversary, public acknowledgement, or unit achievement reports
- Submit to Unit Chair for inclusion in National HSA newsletters; promotes national publication recognition
- Can be member/unit specific, anniversary, public acknowledgement, or unit achievement reports
Baton Rouge Unit’s Responsibilities to the Intern:
- Make clear to the Intern the expectations, from what plants are appropriate to the diverse beds, to what actions are being taken in the Gardens in the unit
- Garden chairs/co-chairs maintain close contact with Intern and plan events and work sessions together
- Listen to and encourage the Intern
- Help the Intern make useful connections in the community with garden, plant, and nature interests
- Organize tours of the Gardens with the Intern
- Can include special interest groups, schools, retirement homes, etc.
Performance Review
- The Intern’s performance review will be conducted by the Garden Chairs and the Executive Committee
- The Intern will be provided a journal each term in which to keep track of their activities and suggestions
- The Intern will submit the journal at the end of each term to Garden Chairs for review by Garden Chairs and Executive Committee
- The journal will be returned to the Intern
- The Intern will submit the journal at the end of each term to Garden Chairs for review by Garden Chairs and Executive Committee
- The Intern will write a short report (200–250 words) on the problems and progress in each garden at the end of each term, and whatever remedies or solutions or ideas were used to achieve them
- This should include any suggestions the Intern has on improving the gardens and how the Unit can make the improvements
- The Intern will also submit a brief report answering the following questions:
- What did you learn from this Internship experience?
- How could it be improved?
- Did this Internship fulfill your expectations?
- Will this Internship be useful in their career plans?
- These documents will be examined by Garden Chairs and Unit Executive Committee.The Garden Chairs and Executive Committee will review the Intern’s end-of-term documents and will provide the Intern with a written copy of HSABR’s evaluation of the Intern’s performance during the term.
If you haven’t already renewed your membership in HSABR...
It’s time! Our membership year runs from October to October, so please get your renewals in as soon as possible. And if you’re not yet a member, now is a great time to remedy that situation!
Your membership in the Herb Society of America, Baton Rouge Unit (HSABR), includes all of the benefits of the national organization as well as our local unit. There are many wonderful benefits to membership, including numerous opportunities to learn and delight in the use of herbs. Our programs include lectures on a wide range of topics related to growing, cooking and using herbs. We also spend time tending to our community gardens in companionship with other members who are passionate herb devotees!
Membership in the Herb Society of America gives you access to the members-only area on the website and many HSA publications, including the HSA Quarterly Newsletter, Unit Connections, HerbalBytes, and GreenBridges™ newsletters, among others. HSA also offers informative webinars that provide our members with the opportunity to share their knowledge, delight, and use of herbs, as well as their varied experiences with a larger herbal community. Members can browse HSA's unique herb-related library, with over 3,500 volumes with topics ranging from vintage books on horticulture to modern fiction. Plus, you get exclusive discounts for online herb products, magazines, online herb classes, and reduced or free admission to public gardens and arboreta through AHS' Reciprocal Admissions Program.
Please visit the HSA's Membership page for a full list of benefits. In addition, being a member of HSABR puts you in contact with a pretty fine group of local folks who can help inspire you, assist you, and sympathize with you in your herbal pursuits!
Dues run from October to October, so the fee will be prorated if you join (not renew!) in a different month (click here for proration chart). You may pay by PayPal or check. The PayPal link will be on the confirmation page that comes up after submitting the membership application form, but if possible, please mail your check (payable to HSABR) to the address on the membership form, as that saves us PayPal fees and saves our treasurer a fair amount of hassle.
Please note: Your renewal/application is not complete until payment is received.
It’s time! Our membership year runs from October to October, so please get your renewals in as soon as possible. And if you’re not yet a member, now is a great time to remedy that situation!
Your membership in the Herb Society of America, Baton Rouge Unit (HSABR), includes all of the benefits of the national organization as well as our local unit. There are many wonderful benefits to membership, including numerous opportunities to learn and delight in the use of herbs. Our programs include lectures on a wide range of topics related to growing, cooking and using herbs. We also spend time tending to our community gardens in companionship with other members who are passionate herb devotees!
Membership in the Herb Society of America gives you access to the members-only area on the website and many HSA publications, including the HSA Quarterly Newsletter, Unit Connections, HerbalBytes, and GreenBridges™ newsletters, among others. HSA also offers informative webinars that provide our members with the opportunity to share their knowledge, delight, and use of herbs, as well as their varied experiences with a larger herbal community. Members can browse HSA's unique herb-related library, with over 3,500 volumes with topics ranging from vintage books on horticulture to modern fiction. Plus, you get exclusive discounts for online herb products, magazines, online herb classes, and reduced or free admission to public gardens and arboreta through AHS' Reciprocal Admissions Program.
Please visit the HSA's Membership page for a full list of benefits. In addition, being a member of HSABR puts you in contact with a pretty fine group of local folks who can help inspire you, assist you, and sympathize with you in your herbal pursuits!
Dues run from October to October, so the fee will be prorated if you join (not renew!) in a different month (click here for proration chart). You may pay by PayPal or check. The PayPal link will be on the confirmation page that comes up after submitting the membership application form, but if possible, please mail your check (payable to HSABR) to the address on the membership form, as that saves us PayPal fees and saves our treasurer a fair amount of hassle.
Please note: Your renewal/application is not complete until payment is received.