GROW Externships: Land Management Training
GROW Externships is a 501c3 organization focused on tangibly building the skillsets of developing professionals in the environmental science and adjacent fields by engaging them in impactful fieldwork.
GROW’s current focal projects are both nationally in Hawaii, helping to develop the Enchanted Gardens land preserve. Internationally our externs work on helping farmers and expanding the proliferation of organic food in the most rural prefectures of Japan. This work not only builds incredibly unique and paid experience for participants resume’s, but additionally helps ecologically high value projects with visibly impactful assistance through the talents of our teammates. We look forward to continued assistance of our projects to support their communities as well as foster the growth of the amazing helpers that make this work possible.
Land Management Training for Developing Sustainability Professionals
GROW Externships utilizes the Enchanted Gardens site to provide its externs with a plethora of different kinds of field experience, from invasive plant remediation (reducing fire risk and erosion) to developing new research projects (e.g. a native pollinator’s field) with partner orgs, GROW is excited to deploy enthusiastic practitioners who are excited to broaden their experiences as future sustainability-related practitioners.
GROW Externships Service Exchange
GROW Externships is actively contributing as part of the workforce that is converting Enchanted Gardens into a usable space for programming, public engagement and environmental advancement. The tasks necessary to reimagine the site are numerous, and it is through our dedicated volunteers that this work is feasible. Their prior experience in science, art and emerging technologies ensures that our approaches consider the ever evolving web of ecological and creative options for greenspace management that might provide further solutions to the many challenges of the site. We are excited to continue this work into the future and look forward to bringing more people into these projects to ensure that the site becomes both the product of all our dreams for a greener Hawaii as well as something that serves our collective vision of a more sustainable future.
