With the support of Harwood’s administration and the Next Step program, the Agricultural Apprenticeship program was created by students for students to gain real world, hands-on experience in the livelihood of farming. Students from Jean Berthiaume’s ‘Creating Sustainable Communities’ course envisioned the program to reconnect young people to farms, land, and food, and believed that this experience would provide participants the skill and inspiration to create a more sustainable world. The Agricultural Apprenticeship experience provides an opportunity for students to work and learn the skills necessary to operate and maintain a vegetable, dairy, livestock, and/or maple sugar farm. The program will give students an opportunity to apply their education thus far in the real world experience of our community farms. Students will gain an overall understanding of the farm, and then through collaboration with the farm mentor and apprenticeship coordinator, be expected to identify a focus for deeper understanding to culminate in a final project that benefits the farm in some way.