Sandheron Farm

Farmer(s): Stu Shafer
Location: Oskaloosa, KS
Contact: [email protected]
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Apprenticeship opportunities: Paid or volunteer positions

Sandheron Farm is about 10 miles north of Lawrence. The farm has about five acres in vegetable and small fruit production and a small mixed tree fruit orchard. We are not certified organic, because we are a small farm and the certification fee is not cost effective for us. We are a member grower in Rolling Prairie Farmers Alliance, and most of our produce is sold through that CSA. We are willing to work with either paid or volunteer apprentices. Room and board is not provided.

Check out this article by Lawrence Journal World about the farm and it's owner, Stu Shafer:

A lesson in food
Back in the late 1970s, Stu Shafer attended an educational institution called The School of Homesteading. Today, he might as well be the headmaster of The School of Market Farming. Shafer has taken those homesteading skills and spun them into a life of tending to the land when not tending to students as a professor of sociology and sustainable agriculture at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park.