[Narz]

Some sort of internship, work-exchange or low-cost training of some sort? I know of organicvolunteers.com, was wondering if anyone knew any other similar sites. Or better yet had personal experience with something going on.

[Revi]

Check out MOFGA's internship program. They place people on organic farms all over Maine.

http://www.mofga.org/Programs/FarmAppre ... fault.aspx

[killJOY]

I work at a farm in Maine that offers apprenticeships.

Rippling Waters.

[Narz]

Thanks KJ. What's your day to day work life like that?

[billg]

Hardwick VT

[killJOY]

Thanks KJ. What's your day to day work life like that?

I'm a part-time employee there. My primary job is teaching. I'm the tractor guy on the farm. I work no more than 20 hours a week.

By the way, in ref to the title of the thread: Nothing humans do is sustainable. We continuously scatter ores and degrade energy stores.

Even working at an "organic" farm involves tractors, plastics, and electricity.

[Narz]

By the way, in ref to the title of the thread: Nothing humans do is sustainable. We continuously scatter ores and degrade energy stores.

Even working at an "organic" farm involves tractors, plastics, and electricity.

More sustainable rather.

I think it's possible to become nearly completely sustainable (as long as the sun stays hot anyway). Certain hunter-gatherer tribes appear to have pulled it off.

[Revi]

It's too bad you weren't here yesterday. We strung another 400 feet of mainline on our maple lot and could have used another hand. We were ankle deep in mud, struggling with the tubing and the wire.

That's what we do for fun around here.

I think it's sustainable. We are using hydrocarbons (plastic tubing) to get carbohydrates (maple sap) down the hill.

We burn wood to make the syrup.

As long as the trees keep growing we can make maple syrup.

http://www.msad54.org/sahs/appliedarts/ ... /index.htm