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Daniel Spiro continues to interview students at the School of Adaptive Agriculture. Enjoy! For Eliot Hartley, 32, practicum program graduate and current Capstone student at the SAA, it was the opportunity to live in a diverse farming community that first compelled him to enroll in the school in the Spring of 2017. Eliot: “I met…
Name and where are you from? Jamie Golden, from San Francisco What are you doing these days? I am working at Open Field Farm, a 500 acre organic, biodynamic farm. We have a 100-member CSA. We grow vegetables, grains, beans, dry corn. We also have a U-pick flower field and herb field. We have a…
Meet Carinne! Carinne is from The Colony; a suburb of Dallas, Tx. “Looking back, a particular experience got me “hooked” on AmeriCorps. One summer, I volunteered in Joplin, MO to help clear debris after a devastating tornado. An AmeriCorps NCCC team coordinated us volunteers and worked along side us in the field. This was such…
Meet Dre! “I’m Andre Cutchin from Newport News, Virginia. I joined AmeriCorps for a new experience and plan on going to a trade school later. My outlook on things has changed through time in volunteer work, and I have higher expectations for me and my goals. Working on an organic farm made me appreciate nature…
Welcome! After an extremely busy year of planning and development of the Grange Farm School in 2014, we are so excited to finally be ready to accept 10 students for the first 3-month term of our Practicum Student Program! Beginning in June 2015 we will be taking on 10 students with the desire to learn…
Meet Ryan! “Hey there, my name’s Ryan Torngren. I’m from the City of Trees, aka Sacramento, CA. This is actually my second year of AmeriCorps. I joined up again to gain more experience and to finalize my goals in life. My plan after AmeriCorps is to go back to school. I’ll be working towards a career in child development, as…