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Steven Finley graduated from Dickinson in 2015 with a BS in Biology. Steven began working on the farm half time (10hrs/week) in the course of the second semester of my junior 12 months and continued working half time by my whole senior 12 months. I then had the chance to take a full-time apprenticeship on the farm after my commencement for the 2015 rising season and eventually departed after some winter work in early 2016. He had quite a lot of shut mates that labored on the farm and plenty of of my biology courses met on the farm for labs and/or analysis. His mates all spoke extremely of their time on the farm, and his personal experiences there for courses had been very fascinating. This all led to him making use of for a pupil farmer place there in 2014.
After Steven graduated in Could 2015 he labored full-time as an apprentice on the farm for the 2015 season. Since then, he has remained concerned within the meals/ag sector. Steven has labored at a number of totally different diversified vegetable farms in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, each in business and non-profit settings. For a pair years he stepped other than rising meals and as a substitute joined a non-profit starvation aid group within the Boston space, the place he labored alongside native growers to reap, pack, and distribute native gleaned produce to the group. Presently he has returned to rising greens full-time in Weston, Massachusetts as part of Land’s Sake, a non-profit organized round environmental schooling, meals donation, and land administration. Working on the Dickinson Farm was great as a result of it gave him so many alternatives to be taught, try, and follow new expertise in a secure and supportive environment that could possibly be exhausting to copy within the farming world. Steven is grateful to Matt, Jenn, Kevin and others for his or her endurance and steering, which have helped him pursue additional farming and land administration careers. There’s additionally an unbelievable community of Dickinson growers on the market.
The following step is all the time to continue learning and searching for recommendation and inspiration from the wonderful group of people that select to develop and share and put together meals. When Steven is just not farming, he actually enjoys driving his bike alongside a few of the extra rural roads simply west of Boston. He additionally has taken up cribbage and he actually is wanting ahead to the day that he can keep in mind all the principles. One in every of his favourite Dickinson School Farm recollections is he all the time reminisced fondly about dwelling within the yurts on the farm and constructing a fireplace within the furnace forward of chilly autumn evenings. There’s one thing so particular about dwelling, sleeping, and strolling on the land that you just are likely to.
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