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What does one do after graduation? Search for jobs of course, and then the hunt for the cozy apartment begins. The new bees will happily cramp in with five other people in a two bed apartment home and will agree to use the one single bathroom too.

But this not something three students who graduated in liberal arts are doing. One of them prefers to live in one of the tents. She doesn’t mind using the outdoor toilet which is composting and will help to harvest the vegetables near Petaluma on an organic farm.. Another student prefers to do the internship at a boutique dairy in New York and she who was English and a creative writing student.

The third one plans to plant peach trees. This is the new trend of students who prefer going the organic way than to sit holed up in some corporate office in the town. They know their choices may not pay them much but there are dozens and dozens of students who are applying for farm apprentices. This is so because some of the students just want a break from their tedious academic lives.  In 2003, this trend was new and the average number of applications was 75 and now there are more than 200 coming in everyday. 

Andrew Marshall was responsible in beginning to organize apprenticeships for the Gardeners Association in the year 2003 and for Maine Organic Farmers, was very much used to seeing an average of about 75 applications a year. This season, he has fielded over a whooping 200, with more and more coming in every day. About 1400 students sought internship at farms this year according to the report of The National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service. Well, the placement department cannot do much really. The kids might be thinking that they are doing something different and the farmers need farm hands.