Filed under: agriculture, interns, internship, internships | Tags: food, ranch, shearing, sheep, wool
We have a number of upcoming events at La Boca as well as a number of interns showing up. Please feel free to join us at anytime.
- Saturday and Sunday March 29th and 30th, Cleanup weekend at the ranch – getting the intern housing ready, cleaning up the river area and outdoor kitchen, cleaning up the scool house
- Friday, April 11th, Food for Thought (Tina Evans, Dennis Lumm and 30 students from FLC), prepping to plant 200 fruit trees, cleaning out animal stalls, making compost piles
- Saturday, April 12th, Food for Thought (Tina Evans, Mark Seis and 30 students from FLC), planting 200 fruit trees, finishing compost piles
- Saturay and Sunday, April 12th and 13th, Four Corners Draft Horse Club, discing and planting 10 acres in oats and alfalfa.
- Saturday, April 19th, San Juan Wool Growers shearing and general small flock care for sheep (see attached flyer and email below)
- May 5th, 6th and 7th, Dr. Kalin Grigg of FLC and 15 students camping at la Boca, working at and learning about sustainable agriculture
- Sunday April 27th, Sonny Gustamante will be shearing alpacas and llamas.
Filed under: agriculture, apprentice, apprenticeship, interns, internship, internships, sustainability, sustainable agriculuture
Fred Robyns, our local blacksmith talking about his trade.
Interning and apprenticing are critical to the success of La Boca’s mission and vision. I would like to recognize the long history of apprenticeships as a form of gaining knowledge and at the same time allowing craftsmen and tradesmen the ability to maintain a way of life – a way of life that results in very little cash flow but large amounts of satisfaction that comes with produci
ng tangible products that have both beauty and function. Apprentichips are not based on a monetary exchange but rather on an exchange of information and labor based on shared values and interests. Tradesmen and craftsmen age and with a younger set of muscles and enthusiasm in the form of an apprentice, the trade and the craft and the associated creative aspects can also flourish indefinitely. I wish to see this exchange flourish at La Boca, for both the staff that are putting so much into the place and for those that would like to come and learn about sustainable agriculture.
Filed under: interns, internship, internships, sustainability, Uncategorized | Tags: cobb oven, interns
We have several interns helping out at La Boca Center for Sustainablity each summer. Here the interns are building a cobb oven for baking pizza, bread and about anything else that goes into an oven.
