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Apprenticeship Program

Climate resilient living emerging from the confluence of ancestral knowledge, science, permaculture design, intuition and good old fashioned hands-in-the-dirt experience

The Maine Local Living School Apprenticeship is training for the transition. Energy downshift, climate resilience, bioregionalism, community living, land ethics, reciprocity with the living world; these are all frameworks that undergird our daily work. The day to day revolves around building skills and tending the systems that reflect these big ideas -- and sharing this with others through educational programing. We want apprentices to leave here with the knowledge and skills to begin (or continue) making the world they want to live in.

  • 8 week experience

  • Free/work exchange

  • 18 years or older

  • Substance free community living

  • Over 60 apprenticeships since 2009

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 Skill Building at Maine Local Living School

  • Subsistence-scale agriculture

  • Food preservation

  • Humanure composting

  • Handcraft (bowls, spoons, baskets, etc.)

  • Hand tool sharpening and use

  • Forestry and food forests

  • Alternative building

  • Fermentation

  • Wild gathering food and fiber

  • Mushroom cultivation

  • Stonework

  • Leatherwork and tanning

  • Animal raising including dairy goats and ducks

Constructing Knowledge

Weekly Seminar: once a week apprentices gather to study alternatives to the mainstream culture that prioritizes economic growth over people and planet. We study the cultural, political, and economic movements, as well as the science and thought leaders they are based upon, though readings, films, guest speakers and discussion.

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