Barakah Heritage Farm

Barakah Heritage Farm
Purposeful. Practical. Preservation.

Come help with various farm projects like cleaning animal pens, building fences, brushing animals and more.  Please note there currently are no available projects with gardens or poultry.  In exchange, we teach you and offer you some free time with the goats or horses.

Be prepared to work and get dirty.  This is not a suitable activity for younger children, and all minors must be supervised by a parent or guardian at all times.  If your child is too young to do chores at home, your child is too young for the volunteer program.  Anyone present on the volunteer day should be there to participate; we ask that parents not entertain younger children by visiting animals while the rest of the family works.  This is for your and our and our animals’ safety.

Plan on a half hour meeting and orientation to determine if the volunteer program is a good fit for you.  After that, we do a trial work session together.  If all goes well, you will be invited into the volunteer program and given access to the volunteer google calendar of available dates/times.

Current farm focus:

-heritage goat sales and educational tours

-Arabian and Arabian cross sport horse sales

-educational horse tours (we plan to add supervised horseback riding)

See our About us page for our diverse farm background

WHO WE ARE A GOOD FIT FOR:

We are looking for volunteers who:

– are motivated and honest
– have a generally positive attitude
– pay attention to detail and can follow directions
– are committed to finishing what they start
– are respectful of others’ views and able to work with others
– committed to following our family-friendly dress code and rules
– are willing to learn, and share what they know (every day we try to learn something new)

WHAT WE OFFER:

We offer short term volunteer positions to simply help out in exchange for animal time.

We also offer long term volunteer positions. We believe that the most successful sustainable farm solutions today are diverse economically, so that is the practical foundation of all we are designing and building. For long term volunteers we want to provide an environment where you contribute to the area of the farm that interests you, while we also support and help with your own independent farm-related small craft, services, or consulting business(es) with the resources we have for that.

You will be learning about goats and/or horses from owner and published author Carrie Eastman.  You can view her full bio here.  Contributing at the farm, you can:

– Learn hands-on about all aspects of our farm and gain skills that will help you on your own future farm
– Take advantage of possible profit sharing or partnership opportunities
– Start your own small farm-related business

 

Steps to apply:

1) Message us to introduce yourself and let us know about your plans and goals

2) We will schedule a skype or WhatsApp meeting or onsite meeting and tour for further discussion

3) Evaluation session working on a single project

4) Mutual decision about longer-term volunteer position

Lastly, we are always open to additional ideas for projects- so don’t hesitate email us to discuss further possibilities.

We do not provide any on-site or off-site housing, pay, stipend or allowance.

We do provide basic tools needed for any projects.

No unaccompanied minors, no pets, service animals by prior arrangements only.

No smoking, drinking, drugs, music (for safety reasons, earbuds are not a workaround), profanity. No strong perfume or aftershave.

We require modest dress.  We ask that tops cover the shoulders, shorts reach the knees, no bare midriffs.  No political/social statements on your clothing please.

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