Common Ground Farm Apprenticeship Program
As an Apprentice you will:
- Gain practical hands-on experience with farming and land stewardship.
- Work side by side with establishing farmers at the Common Ground Farm in North Lawrence.
- Have exposure to a variety of cultural food producing and land stewardship practices, and conservation agriculture techniques.
- Follow a self-paced curriculum from soil to food safety, and from business plans to plant nutrition.
- Be mutually matched with one or more mentor farmer(s) to tailor the majority of your apprentice experience.
Douglas County Open Space
Amid unprecedented pressures of increased severe weather patterns and encroaching development, Douglas County has adopted the Open Space Plan to guide future land use and preservation in the unincorporated areas.