Located in north-central Massachusetts, Maggies Farm is the place to go to learn to farm. It was opened in 1989 with a focus on teaching school children about farming, and how their food gets from farm to table. A little over a dozen years later, the founder, Ben Holmes, decided to guide adults in Practical Farm Training.
Students range in age from 18-60 and spend twelve months learning the practical skills needed to run a small farm. This includes everything from tilling to rotational grazing to marketing. The program begins in the fall indoors with animal husbandry basics, land history and the necessary mathematical skills for planning the next season's crops. Once the growing season arrives, everyone is outdoors from morning til night planting and picking organic herbs and vegetables.
That I'd like to see.
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