Apprenticeiship available

Green Fire Farm & Vermont Biochar
Michael Low & Hart Brent
4287 Bayley Hazen Road
West Danville, VT 05873
(802)684-2570
hart@vtlink.net
http://www.vermontbiochar.com

Diversified farmstead practicing restorative farming through the use of animal and human power. Community scaled biochar production and business.

Source of power: 1 fjord horse, team of Devon oxen, 4 young Dexter bull calves.

Animal used for: Logging; fieldwork; haying; spreading manure etc.; hauing with wagon cart and stoneboat.

Acreage: 67 1.5-2 garden; 16 pasture/ hay; balance woodlot

Other livestock: dairy goats, chickens (meat and layer), sheep, donkeys, bees and dogs.

Skills offererd in: Working with and caring for horses and oxen. Goat husbandry including milking and growing feed and fodder. Logging; building; timberframe; Charcoal/ Biochar production; hand scything; clinical herbalsim; dowsing and earth energies; holistic planned grazing and management; nutrient dense gardening (vegetables, herbs, flowers and fodder crops).

Work hours: 6hrs day/ 5 days a week

Room and board: 1-2 apprentices at a time

Stipend: negotiable

Accomodations: 30′ yurt with full kitchen, bath.

Apprentice must: Have a genuine interest in restorative farming, be hard working, willing and mature.

Visit first: yes

Trial period: 2 weeks