The backbone of the Service Corps is the internships that our 22 members are doing on nine farms across the three counties we serve. However, our Workdays are a meaningful and impactful component of the Corps experience.
Corps members, their teachers, and the CEFS-based staff all dedicate one Saturday a month to work as a group; one month the Workdays happening in county groups; the next month the entire program works together. In July, the Corps completed group workdays at Edwards Cattle Farm in Yancey County, with Jackie Sue and Everett Reems in the Sandy Mush area of Buncombe, and at Tater Hill Farm in Mitchell County. Mr. Moffitt at Tater Hill estimated the crew pulled around 3,000 pounds of potatoes out of the ground that day. For those who have trouble picturing how many potatoes that is, a picture is attached.