Ecological
Agriculture
Service for
Youth

Provides an information link between interested youth and farms that seek to grow food in ways that sustain the natural resource base and promote community.
Matches apprentices who are willing to work with experienced farmers who are willing to share knowledge.
Offers orientation, fellowship and follow-up, integrating technological information and the Writings of the Baha'i Faith regarding agriculture, community and spiritual principles.

Logistics
WHO:	Age 18 and up
WHEN:	Preferably a whole season
WHERE:	Carolinas, Virginia, Michigan, California, South Africa, Irish Republic, Scotland, Wales, Costa Rica
WHAT:	Long hours of planting, weeding, harvesting in exchange for room and board and often a stipend or share of produce.
WHY:	To gain practical experience and to apply spiritual principles to agricultural life and the community.

Thumbnail photo of Paula Posas, apprentice at Louis Gregory Baha'i Inst., Hemmingway, S.C. with Ruie Pratt. (247K)

"It's a wonderful experience to work alongside a farmer, plant and harvest food, and feel the beauty of nature.Being in college is great, but sometimes it's hard to find the balance. This apprenticeship brought together all the important elements of my life-physical exercise, family, community, hard work, learning, service and spirituality." Paula Posas.

Thumbnail photo of Mandla Jekejela of Transkei and Shiloh Moates of Virginia apprenticing in South Africa. (191K)

Thumbnail photo of Lucy Greensmith of Devon, England working in Celo, North Carolina on a "Community Supported Agriculture" farm.(108K)

"Working directly with the earth--providing food for the local community...is an opportunity to learn lessons that cannot be learned in the classroom: how to work hard in a physical way, determination, constancy, attunement to the rhythms and cycles of nature, cooperation with fellow workers, service to the community and responsibility." Lucy Greensmith.

Ecological Agriculture Service for Youth

Logistics

WHO:

Age 18 and up

WHEN:

Preferably a whole season

WHERE:

Carolinas, Virginia, Michigan, California, South Africa, Irish Republic, Scotland, Wales, Costa Rica

WHAT:

Long hours of planting, weeding, harvesting in exchange for room and board and often a stipend or share of produce.

WHY:

To gain practical experience and to apply spiritual principles to agricultural life and the community.

Thumbnail photo of Paula Posas, apprentice at Louis Gregory Baha'i Inst., Hemmingway, S.C. with Ruie Pratt. (247K)

Thumbnail photo of Mandla Jekejela of Transkei and Shiloh Moates of Virginia apprenticing in South Africa. (191K)

Thumbnail photo of Lucy Greensmith of Devon, England working in Celo, North Carolina on a "Community Supported Agriculture" farm.(108K)

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Ecological
Agriculture
Service for
Youth