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Penobscot, Maine USA
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participant Horsepower Farm, Penobscot, Maine
USA, is a diversified market garden and sheep horsepoewr farm.
participant Horsepower Farm, Penobscot, Maine
USA, is a diversified market garden and sheep horsepoewr farm.
Horsepower Farm
Paul, Andy & Donna Birdsall
90 Horsepower Farm Road
Penobscot, ME 04476
207-374-5038
info@ruralheritage.com/penobscot
90 Horsepower Farm Road
Penobscot, ME 04476
207-374-5038
info@ruralheritage.com/penobscot
Diversified market garden, dry beans and other storage crops, sheep, hay, and some grain for livestock. We work alongside apprentices with a view to developing their capability to function independently and effectively as part of the
farm community.
Overview
- Source of power: 6 horses, tractor for bucket work.
- Horses are used for: virtually all tillage, planting, cultivating, haying, harvest, fertilization, logging.
- Acreage: 65 open, 300 wooded.
- Other livestock: sheep, pigs, chickens.
- Skills offered inmanagement of market garden and crops, sheep, logging; most apprentices come away able to harness, hitch, and drive teams on farm work.
- Work hours: 8 hrs/day, 44 hrs/wk.
- Terms: room & board; dates by arrangement, length by mutual convenience; 3 apprentices at a time.
- Stipend: yes.
- Accommodations: small farm house with cooking facilities, wood heat, outhouse; we furnish food, apprentices prepare their own meals.
- Apprentice must:
have a sincere desire to learn and be really excited
by the prospect of learning how to farm with horses; attitude is
more important than prior experience or skills. Must accept that draft
training is highly structured. - Visit first: yes.
- Trail period: 2 weeks, depending on circumstances.
