Organic and grass fed livestock farm in Catskill mountains of New York State. Raise lamb, goat, beef, pork, poultry and rabbits.  Certified organic goat dairy milking 75 goats and produce organic goat milk and organic goat milk yogurt.  Restaurant on farm.  Farm tours and programs.

Responsibilities may include:

Stone&Thistle Farm duties may include: feeding of cattle, hogs, chickens (broilers), and sheep, feeding and collecting eggs from portable hen wagons, Rotational grazing with portable fences "moving the sheep" once or twice a week with border collies, fences taken down and re-erected on fresh pasture, slaughtering of broiler chickens, rabbits, castrating bulls, feeder pigs. Saturday or Sunday farmer's market in Oneonta (20 minutes away) or Callicoon  (1 ½ hour drive) or Pakatakan in Halcottsville (one hour drive), feeding border collies and Livestock Guardian Dogs, helping with Summer programs such as Farmony or Farmer for a Day, helping with Farm Tours

 

Kortright Creek Creamery duties may include relief milking of dairy goats, driving milk in cans to Creamery (one hour drive) or processing on farm, cleaning milking parlor, bulk tank room, clipping dairy goats and hooves, general goat care.

 

Fable – on-farm restaurant may include:  Planting and harvesting kitchen gardens, canning and storing food.

Desired skills are enthusiasm, creative thinking, problem solving, physically fit, carpentry, veterinary, comfort with animals big and small, ability to work alone or as a group. 

Housing: Private trailer by stream or cabin.  Eat meals with family or prepare own meals. Work week is six days including weekends.  Limited internet service. No cell service.