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Description
~ We are a small family farm wanting to raise the very best food we can for our own table and for our friends and neighbors. ~
We are certified organic and seek in all ways to treat the land and the animals in ways that are respectful, healthy and sustainable.
Our journey into sustainable living grew over several years with a few key marker events. One year at the county fair while going through the animal barns, we happened to arrive just as a sow was giving birth to a litter of pigs. We stood in amazement for several hours, as these tiny creatures to whom I had never given a moment's thought, entered the world. At the same time, I was immensely impressed with the poised young man who had raised the sow and would raise these young piglets. A seed of desire was planted in me to raise our own children to be in touch with living creatures as stewards of the earth.
Position Overview
Responsibilities include maintaining chicken coops and other farm structures, operating and maintaining farm vehicles, constructing new farm structures, tending animals, overseeing compost creation and other farm tasks as needed.
Qualifications
Requirements:
- Supportive of sustainable, organic farming
- Reliable
- Good reading and communication skills
- Work well independently
- Good problem solving skills
- Clean driving record
- Able to lift 50 lbs repeatedly
- Able to work outside in all kinds of weather
- Not afraid of chicken poop
- Basic understanding of electricity and electric fences
- Basic plumbing skills
- Basic construction skills
- Experience operating power tools
- Background check
Desired but not required:
- Poultry processing experience
- Experience caring for poultry
- Able to perform health check on poultry
- Able to dive tractor with Loader
- Experience operating gas powered weed-whacker
- Experience driving vehicle with trailer attached
- Able to maintain tractors and other farm equipment
- Experience with heavy equipment