There are a lot of odd jobs to do around Koinonia, many of which could
use an extra odd person. “Where do you find odd people?” community
members asked. The homeschool group seemed a logical place to start.
The students of the homeschool group chose a community member to
partner with to perform these jobs. Grace Lyman Barner and Sol Pomeroy
chose to learn about working in the bakery with Geneva Brown; Ben
Thornburgh and Christian Daniels chose farm work with Brendan
Prendergast; Levi Lyman Barner chose mechanical maintenance with Craig
Martindale; Hughes Pope chose to hang out with Chuck Wilbanks; Ryan
Mournigan, Hugh Pomeroy, and Eric Dalva are learning about woodworking
and construction with Nashua Chantal; while I'm learning Web site
design, photography, and other digital media skills with Amanda Moore.
The purpose of these apprenticeships is to increase the amount of
interaction between community members and the students, and to share
the individual talents we all have with each other through cooperative
work around the farm.