Company description The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association is a broad-based community that educates about and advocates for organic agriculture, illuminating its interdependence with a healthy environment, local food production, and thriving communities. Internship description

MOFGA's Farm Apprenticeship program connects people wanting to learn organic farming with experienced farmers willing to share their expertise. The typical arrangement involves an exchange of labor for room, board, a stipend, and informal, intensive training and experience in farming.

Farm Apprenticeships provide opportunities for training in:

• Organic vegetable, herb, and flower production at many different scales
• Marketing techniques, including direct marketing strategies such as Community Supported Agriculture
• Raising livestock, including cattle, goats, sheep, horses, pigs, and poultry
• Using draft animals for cultivation and woods work
• Homesteading skills, including house-building, food preservation, and alternative energy
• Dairy farming and cheese making with cows, goats, or sheep
• Maple sugaring, orchard pruning, cider pressing, and meat processing
• Seed saving
• Making value-added products with farm resources
• Grass-based and intensive rotational grazing farm systems

These and many other diverse opportunities are available on more than 50 farms throughout Maine.

In addition to on farm learning, MOFGA offers a series of weekly educational workshops for apprentices throughout the farming season through the Farm Training Project.

Please go to http://www.mofga.org/Programs/Education/Farm-Apprenticeships for more information and to fill out an application today! You can use the online searchable database to find farms that fit your criteria including production type, housing options and stipend provided.

Compensation this position is : stipend / non-monetary compensation
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