{"id":1876,"date":"2025-09-17T13:26:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:26:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:26:39","slug":"osu-extension-intern-wraps-up-a-summer-of-service-and-skill-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/2025\/09\/17\/osu-extension-intern-wraps-up-a-summer-of-service-and-skill-building\/","title":{"rendered":"OSU Extension intern wraps up a summer of service and skill building"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello again! My name is Natalie Padilla and this summer I have had the opportunity to work as
\nan intern at the Oregon State University Extension Service in Clackamas County Extension office
\nin the SNAP-Ed, Family and Community Health program and recently even the Small Farms
\nprogram as well. I have spent this summer gaining new experiences and having the chance to
\nlearn about so many different things! Now that September is here, I am nearing the end of my
\ninternship and I am extremely grateful that it has been possible to do something like this.<\/p>\n

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Natalie Padilla working at the NWREC on a small project for Small Farm School. Photo: Macy Jones<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

As I mentioned, I am currently working with the Small Farms program. Macy, my fellow intern
\nat the office was given the chance to start working as SF interns this summer, which keeps us
\neven busier with more opportunities. We were able to finish up some of the social media posts
\nfor the Small Farms Facebook and Instagram accounts. Once or twice a week, we go to NWREC
\nin Aurora to harvest Bitter Gourds and different Cucamelons. Most of what we have been
\nharvesting has been going to Salem Harvest, a non-profit organization who focuses on feeding
\nhungry families. It has been refreshing to see that what we have been harvesting is going to be
\nused to feed people that need it and they are not going to waste!<\/p>\n

Not only have we been out in the field, one of the biggest things we have been working on is
\npreparing for Small Farm School at NWREC. SFS will host around 300 people who are excited to
\nlearn about everything Ag related. To prepare I helped, along with Buffy Rhoades and Tanya
\nKindrachuk to make around 400+ craisin oatmeal balls by hand. It was definitely an interesting
\nlearning experience since I have never really cooked for that many people. Macy and I have also
\nbeen preparing nametags, and stuffing packets for the attendees of SFS. There have also been
\nsome tiny side projects that we have to complete occasionally!<\/p>\n

On the SNAP-Ed and FCH side of things, I am keeping busy as well but as my internship and
\nsummer nears its end it is slowing down a little bit. Our last Walk With Ease class was
\nSeptember 4th. It was a nice closing, and I am glad that we were able to do that bit of outreach
\nfor people. I also helped at the OC Free Food Market on the 2nd and we have the last one to do
\non the 11th.<\/p>\n

Even though my internship is ending I am glad that it was a learning experience and that I can
\nsay that I had the chance to help in some way. Being an OSU intern has taught me so much and
\nI have been able to grow through the summer and meet so many wonderful people, who have
\nalso taught me so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello again! My name is Natalie Padilla and this summer I have had the opportunity to work as an intern at the Oregon State University Extension Service in Clackamas County Extension office in the SNAP-Ed, Family and Community Health program and recently even the Small Farms program as well. I have spent this summer gaining… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14884,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,15,37,21],"tags":[309],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clackamas-county","category-family-and-community-health","category-small-farms","category-snap-ed","tag-natalie-padilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1877,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions\/1877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}