Here at Integration Acres in Albany, Ohio, I work for Michelle Gorman and Chris Chmiel—the great minds behind the well-known Pawpaw festival. Chris and Michelle have a passion for the Ohio native pawpaw fruit that budded during their time at Ohio University, where Chris designed
Running a farm requires many sets of hands. I co-oped at Moonshadow Farm, outside of Yellow Springs, Ohio. The farm is owned and run by Caroline and Paul Mullin and their two teenaged children, Max and Anna. Caroline mainly works with the animals, while Paul
My time here is spent mostly all alone, finishing difficult and physically demanding projects at my own pace. I find this kind of interaction with learning to be incredibly helpful and I feel that the skills I’ve acquired here are going to stick with me
I believe that my co-op experience thus far has allowed me to see social structures and stigmas more clearly relative to a work environment. I have learned a great deal already about freedom and the costs and responsibilities that come along with it. I feel
Enviroflight is a tiny but growing company with an office, warehouse, greenhouse, wetlab and 3 raised garden beds. With five employees, including myself, we manage the facilities seven days per week in order to bag frass. Frass, being the left over product of feeding black
I am working on an aquaculture farm in northern Ohio. We raise and harvest fish (largemouth bass and perch), shrimp, crayfish, minnows, and snails. Most of the time we are out in lakes gathering or "seining" crayfish. Seining just means to catch fish/crayfish with large multi-person
