Organic internships.

• Position: CAREERS - Brief article

Erin Axelrod, who graduated in May from Barnard College in New York, spent the summer living in a tent, using an outdoor compost toilet, and harvesting vegetables on an organic farm in California. Jamie Katz, 20, an English major at Kenyon College in Ohio, planted peach trees at Holly Tree Farm in Virginia. And Alex Liebman, 19, is taking a leave from working on a degree in biology at Macalester College in Minnesota to spend a year at Full Betty Farm in California. They're part of a wave of liberal-arts students heading to farms as interns, in search of both work (even if it doesn't pay a lot) and social change. According to farmers and professors, interest in farm work among college students is at an all-time high.

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