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 housebuilding, 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 100 farms throughout Maine.