Where Are they now?
We've had apprentices since 1995. After a year (or two! or three! or four! or five!) of getting to know them, they leave the farm and head on to their next adventure.
Our past apprentices go on to do all kinds of stuff. They are farm managers, scientists, educators, nurses, entrepreneurs, chefs, extension agents, parents, graduate students, explorers and more!
They do so much stuff that we can promise this page will never be totally up to date. But we like to try to keep in touch with them. This is like a virtual refrigerator door where we keep all their pictures. *For apprentices who stayed multiple years, we've listed them under their final year at the farm.
Check out our Apprentice Program 25th Anniversary Retrospective
Apprentices: want to edit your bios? E-mail us the updates!
2019
Ellen Drews, Apprentice 2017-18, Assistant Manager 2019
Beginning her second season as farm manager at Astarte Farm in Hadley, MA
Will Kebbe, Apprentice 2019
pursuing work as an ag educator
Lia Raz, Apprentice 2019, Worked as a manager at Windy Hill Farm for 2020 season, and as Farm Conservation Planner for the American Farmland Trust since July
2018
Zoe Abram, Apprentice 2012-14, Assistant manager 2015-18
works at Windhorse Mental Health and Sawmill Herb Farm in Northampton MA. She and will welcomed baby Phoebe into the world – Jan 17, 2020
Jake Cardoza -
Apprentice 2018, 2020
Heading to work as Assistant Manager at Farmer Tim’s, in Dudley, MA.
2017
Rebecca "Sunny" Winters, Apprentice 2016-2017
working as ag-educator in Oregon
Rebecca LEung, Apprentice 2016-2017
Rebecca is the Farm Educator at Abundance Farm, in Northampton, MA
2016
John Dickens, Apprentice 2016
Johnny Perchan is getting ready to save the world from overheating as a grad student at Oregon State U! Hurry up, we need your help!
2015
Leila Tunnell, Apprentice 2014 - 2015, Farm Educator 2016-present, Crew Cook 2017-present
continues to enlarge her role in her 5th year as Farm Educator of Brookfield Farm, and ag educator in Amherst Public Schools.
Will Calkins, Apprentice 2015
is working in town conservation in Vinalhaven, Maine
Claudia Kelley, Apprentice 2015
Claudia married her sweetheart Pat right after the growing season. They are hiking across Arizona and then up the Pacific Crest Trail for their honeymoon! After that, they planned to return to the Northeast and find land to start a farm. Any sightings?
2014
Will van Heuvelen (right), Apprentice 2013-2014
Will owns and operates Wheelhouse Farm Truck, an Amherst-area farm-to-street food truck. Former apprentice Jake Mazar is his business partner!
Jake Mazar (left), Apprentice 2013 - 2014
Jake has started two businesses in recent years, and keeps busy running both of them! Along with Wheelhouse, Jake co-owns Artifact Cider Project, which produces locally made hard apple cider in Springfield.
2013
Caro Roszell, Apprentice 2013
completed her 6th season at New Wendell Farm, Wendell, MA as well as Education Director for NOFA-MA and soil-health consultant
2012
Pete Mclean
Assistant Manager 2012, apprentice 2010-11
completed his 4th year with his facilitation business based in Amherst – True North specializing in working with groups of young men
Jasper Gardner, Apprentice 2012
Jasper Wrote that “I got married in 2019, haVE a ten yr old stepson, doing carpentry and keeping my growing skills honed on my garden!”
Aaron Shier, Apprentice 2012
at the National Farmers Union working as a government relations specialist in Washington, DC.
2011
Kerry Manire - Apprentice 2007-09; Assistant Manager 2010-’11
Recently completed her 9th season at her own Provider Farm and moving with Max To Become Brookfield Farm’s New Farm Managers!!
Tobin Porter-Brown, Apprentice 2010-2011
opened Front Seat Coffee in Hardwick, VT. He and his wife welcomed their son Abel into the world on January 3, 2020.
Erin Roche, Apprentice 2011
completed her 7th year as a Program Manager at UMaine, Orono Extension service – she welcomed her new baby. Helena into the world on Oct. 1, 2019
2010
Lisa McKeag - Apprentice 2008-’10, WOrks as An Extension Educator at UMASS Center FOr Agriculture, Food & The environmenT. She’s ALso working on a Master’s degree at Vermont Law School on Food and Agriculture Law and Policy To Become a better educator and advocatE For Farmers.
2009
Adan Martinez Apprentice 2007, Assistant Manager 2008-09 (Working as a litigator, advocating for worker rights in New Haven, CT)
Bridgitte Derel - Apprentice 2009 (Farmer, Artisan)
2008
Danya Teitelbaum - Apprentice - 2008 - Completed her 12th season at Queens Greens, Hadley MA
2007
Andy Szymanowicz (LEFT) - Apprentice 2007 - completed his 4th year designing and planning farms and gardens for hotels and restaurants in Europe (currently in Portugal)..
Chris Babis - Apprentice 2004-05, Assistant Manager 2006-07 - is a senior partner at Water Markets and founded Interstellar Farm Microgreens and rocks out with his band Metanoia in San Antonio, TX
Marc Cesario - Apprentice 2002, Livestock Manager 2007 - completed his 10th season at Meeting Place Pastures, Cornwall, VT
2006
Jeff Tober - Apprentice 2003, Assistant Manager 2005-2006 - started Rancocas Creek Farm, Southampton NJ – great vid
Rachel Chandler-Worth - Apprentice 2006
Amy Smith - Apprentice 2006 - completed her 10th season at Heart Beet Organic, PEI, Canada
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Amy Cloud (LEFT)- Apprentice 2001 and 2006 - completed her 13th season at Three Rivers Community Farm. Elsah IL.
2005
Abby Youngblood - Apprentice 2005 - executive director of the National Organic Coalition
2004
Elizabeth (Weimels) Riot Apprentice - 2004 - 05 - completed her 12th year as a Resource Specialist In Oakland CA Unified School District.
Casey Steinberg - Apprentice 2002 - 2003, Assistant Manager 2004 - completed his 17th season at Old Friends Farm, Amherst MA
2003
Su Wasseluk (Right) - Apprentice 2000-2001, The FIRST Assistant Manager 2002 - 2003. completed her 10th year as Nurse Practitioner in Hyannis, MA
Scotti Goss (Middle) - Apprentice 2003 - lives in Montague, reads books and loves her wife and dog
2002
Peter Smith - Apprentice 2002 - a reporter living in Portland, ME – follow him on twitter…really
2001
Treesha Lizotte - Apprentice 2000 - 01
2000
Jenny Hausman - Apprentice 2000 - completed her 13th season at Piccadilly Farm, Winchester NH
1999
Paul Bucciaglia - Apprentice 1999 completed his 18th season at Fort Hill Farm, New Milford CT.
Rebecca Downing (Right) - Apprentice 1998 - 99 - is a practicing mental health counselor in Northampton, MA.
Angie Pate (LEft) - Apprentice 1999 -
1998
John Richardson - Apprentice 1998
Caty Crabb - Apprentice 1998 - is a practicing clinical herbalist and medicine maker and the owner/practitioner of Wildire Herbs in Appalachian Ohio
1997
Kate Rossiter - Apprentice 1996 - 97 - competed her 15th year as an Outreach and Education Manager at the American Farmland Trust, Northampton, MA
Kim Koprince - Apprentice 1996 - 97 - is a practicing mental health counselor in Holyoke, MA
Don Zasada - Apprentice 1996-1997 - competed his 16th season at Caretaker Farm, Williamstown, MA, and continues to work with us a collaborator in the CRAFT program
1995
Olivia Martin - Apprentice 1995
Nicole Goode - Apprentice 1995 - is a homemaker, mother, and gardener in Hood River, OR.
Gary French - Apprentice 1995 - owns a yoga studio and works as a public school teacher in Punta Gorda, FL.
