Intern & Apprentice Information Form

INTRODUCTION

We'd like to know a little about the folks who are applying to work at our farm for the coming season. Please feel free to add more if you think we missed asking any relevent questions.

We would like our interns to be real apprentices in the old time sense of the word, where the apprentice learns to do what we are doing from top to bottom. We are primarily interested in hosting people who have a genuine interest in adopting farming or market gardening in their lives. We are not particularly interested in just a warm body to do work. We look to gain fulfillment ourselves through offering an in depth experience to people who are looking to continue on in agriculture as their life's work. We have no livestock, but we do have dogs and cats.

You can find alot more about us by looking at our web site at www.snakeroot.net/farm. It is fairly extensive, and includes pictures of us, of the farm, and some of our farmers' markets, a farm journal, yearly work schedules, as well as literature we produce for educating the public at the markets. A copy of this application appears there, too.

We are looking for people who ideally are willing to start early in the season and stay late into the season (April thru November), or even year-round, but we realize that in most cases this is a dream, so we are flexible on starting and ending dates. For folks looking to stay for more than one year, see our Farmer's Retirement Plan.

Work at the farm consists of greenhouse work (starting seedlings, trellising, watering), field work (planting, transplanting, weeding, hoeing, watering, harvesting), attending farmers' markets, and generally helping out around the place. A more complete description of what we do during the year can be found at Our Work Schedule. We offer a choice of places to stay. We accept couples, however defined.

You can either print this out, or hit reply and fill in the blanks.

Name:__________________________________________ Age_____ M/F________

Address:_______________________________ Phone:(____)________________

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Best time to be reached:_________________________________________

How did you hear about our farm?___________________________________

Permanent Address:___________________ Permanent Phone:(___)________________

What is the time period during which you will be available to apprentice?

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Are you seeking in-depth organic agriculture training, or are you looking for an interesting summer job?

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Describe the type of farm experience and skills in which you are most interested. Please mention at least three specific areas of interest.

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What are your goals in becoming a farm apprentice? Afterwards?

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What do you perceive will be your reaction to living and learning with new and unknown people in a rural area.

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Please list any schools you have attended, degrees and/or major areas of study or training.

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Provide a list of your work experience, both paid and volunteer.

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Is the receipt of a modest stipend crucial to your ability to become an apprentice? Explain:

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Will you be able to make a visit to our farm? If so, when?

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Please comment on the following and add any other considerations that are important to you:

Smoker Non-Smoker

Diet (vegetarian? other?)___________________________________________

Will you eat meat raised locally? Yes[  ]   No[  ]

Transportation?_______________________ Drive Stick Shift?___________ Tractor?__________

Medical:

Are you taking any medications? Yes[  ]   No[  ] If yes, what?____________

Any physical limitations? Yes[  ]   No[  ] If yes, what?__________________

Allergies? Yes[  ]   No[  ] If yes, what?_____________________________________

Emotional/psychological problems? Yes[  ]   No[  ] If yes, what?______________

Other considerations:_______________________________________________

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Special Interests:__________________________________________________

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Strong ideological views (political, religious, feminist, etc.):

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Please list a few interesting things about yourself:

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Please list a few things you want people to know about living with you:

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Please return this application to us as soon as posible so we can make an appropriately early decison.
Snakeroot Organic Farm, 27 Organic Farm Road, Pittsfield ME 04967

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