This application usually requires between ten and forty-five minutes to fill out. Please note that each member of a couple should fill out an application and reference the other in their own. A couple may choose up to five farms they're interested in, just like a single applicant.

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Name

First Name

Last Name

Gender and/or pronouns

Age

Email Address

Address

Address 1

Address 2

City

State/Province

Zip/Postal Code

Country

Phone

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Please choose your top five farms of interest.

Please use these abbreviations: VI for Vancouver Island, TO for Thompson Okanagan, VC for Vancouver/Fraser/Cariboo/Northern BC, PR for Prairies, ONT for Ontario, and MT for Maritimes. eg. TO 15 for Thompson Okanagan 15.

If you wish to apprentice as a couple or family, please explain.

How did you learn about SOIL?

Desired Start Date

If these dates are flexible, please indicate

YYYY

Expected End Date

YYYY

Have you worked on a farm or in agriculture?

Please explain the type of farm experiences that are of interest to you.

What are your goals for this apprenticeship?

What do you plan to do afterwards?

If necessary, are you willing to share accommodations with the farm family or other apprentices?

Yes

How do you think you will feel and react to living with different people in a new and unknown rural environment?

Do you require a wage or stipend during your apprenticeship? Feel free to elaborate.

Are you able to visit your farms of interest during the selection process? Feel free to elaborate.

Lifestyle and Values

Are you a smoker?

Yes

Dietary Preferences/Restrictions/Allergies

Medical Needs/Mental or Physical Challenges that may need accomodation

Transportation needs? i.e. Will you be bringing a vehicle? Are you able to get to the farm of your choice or will you need to be picked up at an airport or nearby bus drop?

Do you need to be near a town? Feel free to elaborate.

Hobbies?

Do you have any strong ideological views (eg. political? religious? feminist?)?

Any other thoughts, hopes, ideas, aspirations, considerations, comments?

Please provide two references (people you have worked for or with), their positions, phone numbers, and email addresses, in Canada if possible. Host farmers may wish to contact them.

Are you willing to follow the health guidelines for the health authority in your farm's area, to help to prevent the spread of COVID-19?

Do you have a valid driver's licence? and how long have you had one?