>Saneteers:
>
>Many small-scale farms, especially organic ones and even more especially
>those growing vegetable and fruit crops, use summer apprentices or interns
>as part or all of their outside labor force. The interns, typically college
>students or new grads, work and learn on the farm in return for housing
>(usually rustic) and a stipend (usually low).
>
>More often than not, it's a satisfactory arrangement for both grower and
>intern. We've hosted more than 30 summer interns at our farm, some of whom
>returned for a second and even a third year. But I often wondered what
>would happen if someone decided that our summer interns had to be managed
>like migrant farmworkers. I knew that the housing wouldn't pass muster
>(heck, my own house wouldn't pass muster!).
>
>Last year, good friends of mine in Maryland found out what would happen. As
>a result, Martha Daughdrill and Paul Benton of Newburg Vegetable Farm in
>Newburg, MD, aren't farming anymore. They've written about the experience
>for Growing for Market, a newsletter for market gardeners published by
>Fairplain Publications in Lawrence, KS.
>
>Lynn Byczynski, editor and publisher, has given me permission to post their
>article on my farm's Web site. It's at <www.flickerville.com/Migrants.htm>.
>
>Cass Peterson
>Flickerville Mountain Farm & Groundhog Ranch
>Specialty Produce and Flowers
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Nothing is easy. The best is worth the effort.
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>www.flickerville.com
>
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