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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

  • Sliding scale $1,500 - $3,000

  • 18 years or older

  • Substance free community living

  • Over 70 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.  Through discussion, film, guest teachers and lecture, we study ecology, permaculture, social and cultural models and movements, educational pedagogy, and practices for kinship and connection.
 

Constructing Knowledge

Program Cost

The actual cost of the program is $2,300 in direct costs. If you can afford $1,500, the low end of the scale, and no more, we welcome you! If your personal or family means allow you to pay $2,300, you are helping maintain the financial sustainability of this program. If you are able to pay more than $2,300, you will be supporting fellow apprentices with less means to participate. 

We want the MLLS apprenticeship to be a transformational learning experience, and take time to make it so, through field trips, craft workshops, guest speakers, and dedicated facilitation. Most years, the first week of the program also overlaps with Homesteading 101, a graduate level course in permaculture and bioregional living in which apprentices participate at no extra cost.

We trust you to contribute what you can toward this program, no questions asked.
If you have questions for us about this policy, or need to request a scholarship below the low end, please don't hesitate to reach out--207-778-0318 or info(at)mainelocalliving.org.

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