Chewonki Farm Apprentice 2015-2016 Posting

Chewonki Foundation, Inc., is a year-round, nonprofit environmental education center based on a 400-acre peninsula in mid-coast Maine. Our programs include a semester school for high school juniors, summer camps for boys and girls, co-ed wilderness expeditions for teens and adults, environmental education for independent and public school groups, and traveling natural history programs.

The Chewonki Farm, on the Chewonki property, is horse-powered, small, and diversified; its primary goal is to educate program participants while producing food, wood products, and fiber for the community. There are approximately 15 acres of open land; one acre is cultivated for vegetable gardens and the remaining 14 acres are pasture and hay fields. The managed woodlot is approximately 150 acres.

Chewonki is seeking a year-round farm-apprentice to start in January 2015. For more information on the position and how to apply, please visit the Chewonki website: http://www.chewonki.org under “Employment Opportunities.