Innisfree Farm & Botanic Garden offers you a wonderful opportunity to learn to grow, harvest, process and use your own food and medicine – from seed to finished product. Our acclaimed apprenticeship programs will teach you to use herbs and foods to nourish and heal yourself, your community and the land.

Each session is 16 weeks with over 60 hours of teaching.

Fees: $1,500 plus GST

Session 1, March 22 to July 10 (3 places allotted)

Session 2, May 24 to September 11 (2 places allotted)

Session 3, July 13 to October 30 (3 places allotted)

For complete information on application process, program content and objectives, payment details COVID protocols and accommodations, please visit the farms website at Innisfreefarm.ca/apprenticeships

“Thank you for welcoming me into your home here in the Comox Valley for the past four months…. Innisfree has been the most memorable and transformative experience in my life. I have learned so much more than how to farm and gown so much as a human being. I have planted many seeds, not only to grow food, but seeds of inspiration in my heart and mind….”      – 2020 Apprentice