Apprenticeship

Applications for the 2023 MOFGA apprenticeship season are live as of December 1, 2022 with renewed host farmers.

If you have questions about the program, please direct them to Beginning Farmer Program Specialist, Bo Dennis at [email protected].

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Emily Springer in her greenhouse full of herbs.

Meeting House Herb Farm

We are primarily a medicinal herb farm. We offer seedlings, dried herbs, fresh herbs and herbal extracts. We also run a 25 farm herb growers collaborative with other farms in the Northeast. We primarily sell online. We have a grow room, small greenhouse, dry room and herb processing kitchen. We are seed to tea. We also bag, store and sell other farms herbs.

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Fisher Farm

FULL FOR THE 2023 SEASON. Fisher Farm is a small family farm in beautiful Winterport, Maine. We specialize in growing the highest quality MOFGA Certified Organic vegetables. We are committed to the health and safety of our community.

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Peacemeal Farm

Peacemeal Farm is nestled in the Dixmont hills along the east branch of Martin Stream. The farm was started in the 1970s by back-to-the-landers and was one of the first farms to be certified organic by MOFGA. We started farming here in the early 2000s. The farmhouse and farm buildings sit on a hillside with a view of the fields, stream and surrounding mountains. We have 120 acres of fields, forest and marshland. Dixmont is a rural community where farming, forestry and wildlife define the landscape. We are a 30 minute drive from Belfast and Bangor and a 20 minute drive from Unity.

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Hancock Family Farm

The Hancock Family Farm is a 10 acre certified organic farm with a small grass fed beef herd. The farm grows mixed vegetables and cut flowers. The farm moves its vegetable through a very active farm stand, a good sized CSA and a farmer’s market.

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Sweet Relief Farm

Sweet Relief Farm is located on 40 acres along the Saco River in Steep Falls. Of that forty acres we grow diversified organic crops for our homestead and a few customers and includes a greenhouse and a tunnel house in which we grow seedlings and inside crops.

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Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment

FULL FOR 2023 Season. Wolfe’s Neck Farm is located right on the coast in Freeport, Maine. On 626 acres of diverse ecosystems, we farm, educate, conduct agricultural research, and invite visitors to engage with the food system and the role we all can play in building a more just and sustainable future.

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Tender Soles Farm

FULL FOR THE 2023 SEASON. Our farm is located on Main St. in Richmond, a few miles from downtown Richmond and a few miles from Interstate 295.

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Roque Farm

The farm is located on a private island off the coast of Downeast Maine; it is a 15 minute boat ride to the island, and a 10 minute drive to the nearest town. The main island is 1600 acres, of which approximately 50 are in pasture or hay fields.

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Pine Root Farm

Pine Root is a 15 acre mixed veggie and flower farm. We’re focused on providing our community with healthy and affordable food, selling through our on-site farm stand, a 200 family CSA, and the Portland Farmers Market. We work closely with local food banks and food rescue groups, participate in the Maine Senior Farm Share Program, and our own Prescriptions for Produce Program. The stand stocks local products like dairy, bread, and value-added goods, is full service, and is open 7 days a week June – October. In normal times, we host free events and cookouts for the community.

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Schoodic Hollow

FULL FOR THE 2023 SEASON. We are at the dead end of a beautiful road that backs up to miles of wilderness–there is a vast trail system. It is also possible to ride the rail trail by bike into ellsworth in a couple hours, or by car on roads in 20 minutes.

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Pork Hill

The farm is located in the beautiful Lakes Region of New Hampshire. We are a short drive from the White Mountains and an hour from cities like Portland and Portsmouth. The farm is surrounded by hundreds of acres of conservation land, pristine woods, with lots of lakes and rivers nearby.

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Frith Farm

FULL FOR 2023 SEASON
Frith Farm is a no-till organic farm on Wabanaki land in what is now called Scarborough, Maine.

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Erickson Fields

Erickson Fields Preserve is an educational and community resource featuring a program that hires and trains teens to grow vegetables for their community.

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The branches of a peach tree.

Backstage Farm

FULL FOR THE 2023 SEASON. An Acting Teacher and a professional Costume Designer turned sustenance farmers, have a one acre farm in coastal, Blue Hill, Maine.

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Meeting House Herb Farm

Fisher Farm

Peacemeal Farm

Hancock Family Farm

Sweet Relief Farm

Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment

Tender Soles Farm

Roque Farm

Pine Root Farm

Schoodic Hollow

Pork Hill

Frith Farm

Erickson Fields

Backstage Farm

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