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  • From: OakCamp AT aol.com
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: market-farming digest: Apprenticeship Clarification
  • Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 09:24:39 EDT

Hi All,
There are a couple of herb farms that take apprentices for the growing
season.  There programs are wonderful!  The cost is ~$1200 for 4 weeks at a
time and most people do it once.  The cost includes R/B- in a beautiful
Japanese style house (4 bunks / room), 3 vegetarian meals/day, weekends off.
There is a 2 hour seminar each night on herbs and herbalism. Otherwise they
work 8- 10 hour days.

They have to turn people away because they can only take so many at a time
(12).  These are well run programs with excellent results.  

Consider, that in a 20 week growing period they are grossing $72K to have 60
people help them on the farm.  

Makes ya think about working smarter, not harder, huh?

Barb
Oak Camp Herb Farm



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