These students are part of the next generation of Aroostook farmers
Caribou Technology Center agriculture students pose in front of a potato truck that they purchased partly with sales from potato harvesting. Pictured in back (left to right) are Emily Gallagher and Tate Margeson. Middle row (left to right): Hailey Mayne, Nate Guerrette and Cayden St. Pierre. Front row (left to right): Manse Shaw, Bryce Shaw and Hunter Emery. Credit: Melissa Lizotte / Aroostook Republican
CARIBOU, Maine — In an era when most students do not work for potato farmers during their school’s harvest break, the agriculture program at Caribou Technology Center is seeing huge gains, turning Aroostook’s youth into farmers and skilled trades people.
This year 43 students from Caribou and surrounding school districts signed up for the program, so many that instructors had to turn several away to meet the 28-student limit.
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