APPRENTICESHIPS
This program has been a part of the grants cycle to equitably distribute resources. We are now making it a program of its own. We are collecting resources and internship positions. If you have additions, please notify us, especially in non-farming rural occupations.
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APPRENTICESHIPS
Farm-Based Training Programs:
Beginning Farmers
To learn about internship programs/offerings, and farm jobs.
http://www.beginningfarmers.org/internship-and-employment-opportunities/.
Growing Places Course, University of Vermont, Extension
The Growing Places Course has helped beginning women farmers and ranchers learn the nuts and bolts of successful farm business start-up. Participants learn about goal setting and decision making, financial and business management, accessing capital and credit, and marketing.
https://www.uvm.edu/newfarmer/?Page=classes/growing_places.html&SM=classes/
Annie's Project, Resource
Face-to-face education designed to strengthen women’s roles in modern farm enterprises. Annie's Project focuses on problem-solving, record-keeping and decision-making skills.
Cloud Mountain Farm Center, Everson, WA
The Cloud Mountain Farm Center Internship is designed for those interested in pursuing a career in agriculture, and includes both employment and education. Interns gain working experience in both fruit and vegetable production and learn first-hand what it takes to keep farmlands healthy and agricultural businesses thriving.
https://www.cloudmountainfarmcenter.org/education/farm-internships/
Cornell University's Northeast Beginning Farmer Project
Offering a variety of 5-7-week online courses for beginning farmers. Courses cover business planning, marketing and enterprise-specific development topics for vegetables, fruit, woodlot, livestock, mycology, and beekeeping.
Women, Food and Agriculture
An on-farm apprenticeship program, bringing together women in sustainable agriculture for annual gatherings that provide education and networking.
Sustainable Food Systems Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture, Santa Cruz, CA
The 6-month apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture provides training in organic gardening and small-scale farming. This program is run in conjunction with UCSC Extension.
The Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, East Troy, WI
Training programs for beginning farmers including Whole Farm Workshops
The Farm School, North Orange, Massachusetts
One-year Learn To Farm program
Foundation Farm School, Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Farmshare Austin’s FarmerStarter program
Programming designed to provide aspiring farmers with the essential skills and training needed to manage a sustainable farming business.
https://farmshareaustin.org/farmerstarte
The Organic Farm School
8-month, full-time, farm-based training program on scenic Whidbey Island in Washington state. Their curriculum includes organic vegetable, seed, and livestock production as well as training in business planning and marketing.
New Farmer School
A horse-powered initiative begun in 2007 by Andrea Thompson and Jonathan Wright with the goal of providing locally, sustainably-produced food and an example of a human-scaled, alternative way of doing things.
Biodynamic Training & Apprenticeships
Internships & Apprenticeships Postings | Biodynamic Association
https://www.biodynamics.com/forums/internships-apprenticeships-postings
Grange Farm School
The Grange Farm School in Willits, California is dedicated to teaching the next generation of responsible, innovative, and successful farmers. They offer hands-on training combined with a rigorous academic curriculum through their Practicum Student Program.
Permaculture Skills Center, Sebastapol, CA
5 acre demonstration site and educational institution dedicated to sharing regenerative land development and management practices.
www.permacultureskillscenter.org
Calypso Farm and Ecology Center
Mentorship/Part-Time Programs: offers a farmer training program in Alaska
http://www.calypsofarm.org/education/calypsos-farmer-training-program/
The Land Stewardship Project’s Farm Beginnings Program, Minnesota
landstewardshipproject.org/morefarmers
The Michigan Land Use Institute’s Get Farming! Programs,
Farm to School · Healthy Food for All ... MLUI's Healthy Food for All programs connect schools, health programs and families to fresh local food Traverse City, MI
Groundswell: Center for Local Food & Farming, Ithaca, NY
Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming. Groundswell engages diverse learners and empowers them with skills, knowledge and access to resources
Farm School NYC, New York, NY
Our mission: Farm School NYC'S mission is to train NYC residents in urban agriculture, in order to build self-reliant communities and inspire positive local action New York CityUrban Farming Programs
www.justfood.org/farmschoolnyc
Earthworks Agriculture Training, Detroit, MI
https://earthworksagriculturetraining.wordpress.com
Beginning Urban Farmer Apprenticeship Program,
BUFA provides training for urban and small-scale farmers and community land stewards in vegetable and fruit production and farm business management.
smallfarms.oregonstate.edu/beginning-famers/BUFA
Online Programming
Practical Farminars of Iowa
All Farminars are archived
Washington State University
Offering an online certificate in organic agriculture.
wsu.edu/cert/organicagriculture.aspx
Penn State Cooperative Extension Beginning Farmer School
Courses, workshops, and resources for aspiring and beginning farmers in production, marketing, financial management, as well as land and other resource
extension.psu.edu › Extension › Community & Business
C.R.A.F.T. (Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training)
The Collaborative Regional Alliance for Farmer Training (CRAFT) is a farmer-led coalition organized by sustainable agriculture farmers in a self-selected geographic region. Participating farmers offer up their time, talents and experience to help prepare the next generation of farmers. The secret to CRAFT’s success is simple — farmers learn most effectively from other farmers. CRAFT provides farmer-to-farmer learning and access to the social network and culture of local farmers. To learn more, visit the CRAFT Website at: http://www.craftfarmer.org/
Recommended Reading:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver
This Organic Life
Joan Dye Gussow
Hope’s Edge
Frances Moore Lappé & Anna Lappé
The God of Small Things
Arundati Roy
Power Politics
Arundati Roy
Water Ways
Vandana Shiva
Staying Alive
Vandana Shiva
Stolen Harvest
Vandana Shiva
Biopiracy
Vandana Shiva
Tomorrow’s Biodiversity
Vandana Shiva
The Future of Food and Seed
Terra Madre
Sharing the Harvest
Robyn En & Elizabeth Henderson
Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
The Sea Around Us
Rachel Carson
The Edge of the Sea
Rachel Carson
Under the Seawind
Rachel Carson
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard
The Garden Primer
Barbara Damroch
Gardening for Life
Marie Thun
The Soul of the Soil
Grace Gershuny
The Resilient Gardener
Carol Deppe
Keeping Food Fresh
Gardeners and Farmers of Terra Vivante
Worms eat My Garbage
Mary Appelhof
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Organic Farming Manual
Ann Larkin Hansen
American Terroir
Rowan Jacobsen
Turn Here, Sweet Corn
Attina Diffley
Farming with Native Beneficial Insects
The Xerces Society
Eating on the Wild Side
Jo Robinson
The Color of Food: Stories of Race, Resilience, and Farming
Natasha Bowens
Herbal Kitchen
Dan and Myrl Moran
Soil Sisters
Lisa Kivirist
Women Farmers On The Rise and Sustainable Agriculture
Carolyn Sachs et al
Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability -
Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman
Farms With A Future
Rebecca Thistlewaite
The Tao of Vegetable Gardening
Carol Deppe
Reclaiming Our Food
Denckla Cobb
Solviva
Anna Edey
How to Move Like A Gardener
Deb Soule
Seed to Seed
Suzanne Ashworth
Soil Sisters
Lisa Kivirist
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