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• Appleton Creamery --
  Serious cheese making and goat husbandry apprenticeship at award-winning goat cheese dairy in beautiful midcoast Maine area. Unique opportunity to experience the entire cycle from delivering kids to marketing the finished product at farmers’ markets. 5-acre farm, organic gardens, poultry, fencing project, small vineyard and heirloom orchard, homebrewing. Family of 3. 2 positions available for 2008, April-Oct. Stipend, room and partial board. Please email for more information: info@appletoncreamery.com.
• Pineland Farms, Inc. Job Description
  
  Position:
  Assistant Cheese Maker
  Reports to: Creamery Manager
  This position is a full-time, hourly position.
  
  Qualifications:
  Previous experience in food service and/or preparation
  Knowledge of and some previous experience with aspects of cheese production preferred
  Willingness to assist in all aspects of cheese production and creamery operations
  Willingness to work independently as well as a part of a team
  Ability to interact effectively with vendors, customers and the general public
  Willingness to work collaboratively with others for educational purposes and provide general public information
  Ability to lift 70 lbs from knee to waist height repeatedly
  
  Responsibilities:
  Assist in all aspects of cheese production
  Manage and lead the cheese production staff in the absence of the Creamery Manager
  Coordinate facility use with Dairy Manager and interact effectively with farm staff, as necessary, as it relates to cheese production in absence of Creamery Manager
  Handling, cutting and packaging of cheese for shipment
  Responsibility for maintaining a clean and sanitary work environment and clean up after production
  Perform other duties as assigned
  
  Send Resume and Coverletter to:
  Mark Whitney, Creamery Manager
  92 Creamery Lane
  New Gloucester, ME 04260
• Sunset Acres Farm --
  • 75 gallon bulk tank all working Used here for 4 years. Great starter tank. $600
  • 100 and a 150 gal bulk tanks Never run here but running when removed from farm. Still have freon in them so that is a good sign!! Could be used for vats or whatever your mind could think up. I have many ideas. $250 each
  • Large hot water heating unit for cheese plant. Actually a swimming pool heater! Ran everything here and cheaply. Needs to be installed out of doors and we didn't have the room anymore. Many new parts. Cost over $2,000 will sell with many installation parts for $700.
  • Just bought many reg. Sannens from a milking herd that shows some not the other way around. Excellant bloodlines. Great herd buck prospects and some does. KIDS
  • Also many purebred Alpines this year. Many from Tom Cox bloodlines. Some does are 12 years old so that says a lot! Contact us at bob@wildmoo.net.