Ag Apprentice Weekly Responsibility Checklist

DID I:

• Work 2 hours on the farm?
• Get my farm hours initialed by my farmer mentor on my timesheet?
• Submit my weekly farm reflection (or other assignment) to the WIKI or the Ag Apprenticeship bin outside the Next Step office?
• Submit my timesheet to the Next Step office?
• Meet with Kristen?
  

Quarter 2 – Week 1 Assignment
***Please submit your reflection to the Ag Apprenticeship box outside the Next Step office or post it to the WIKI by Monday November 10th.

Please submit a reflection that communicates:
• Why are you interested to apprentice on a local farm?
• What type(s) of farm(s) do you want to work on?
• What do you hope to learn through your agricultural apprenticeship?
• Do you have any farms in mind that you would like to apprentice with during Quarter 2?

Additionally please respond to:
Author Richard Heinberg says that the United States needs an additional 50 million new farmers in the next 20-30 years in order to provide our citizens with a stable, healthy food supply! Can you see yourself becoming one of these new farmers? Why or why not? IF yes, what would your farm look like (You can use these questions to help think about your answer: What would you grow? How large is your farm? Would you have animals? Would you be farming with other friends and family? What type of equipment would you use? Would you have barns/buildings? Who would you be selling your food/animals to?)

Have fun with this exercise….use your creativity and imagination.



Contact Kristen at 498-8786 or getlerk@harwood.org if you have any questions or to set up a meeting. You may also stop in the Next Step office and speak with Rachel or Ellen and they will help you get in contact with me if I am not at school.