FARM PROJECT PROMOTES TRAINING PROGRAM - Westfair Communications

Poughkeepsie Farm Project (PFP) is working with the Ecological Citizens Project (ECP), a nonprofit organization in Garrison to recruit a Poughkeepsie-based candidate for ECP”™s Regenerative Communities Apprenticeship (RC). ECP aims to train new farmers, connect them to affordable land and establish community farms in the Hudson Valley to create a permanent solution to local food insecurity. A community Zoom call hosted by PFP, ECP and Scenic Hudson was held April 7^.

The RC Apprentice will work closely with ECP founders Jason Angell and Jocelyn Apicello on Longhaul Farm in Garrison for 15 months (June to August 2022) to learn regenerative farming and sustainable life skills.

Upon completion of the program, the apprentice will oversee the Pershing Avenue Neighborhood Farm, a new quarter-acre farm in the city of Poughkeepsie. Apicello said, “We believe it”™s really important that farmers are rooted in and represent the surrounding community they are growing food for and can welcome and engage the neighborhood in the life of the farm.”