
Volunteer On the Farm
Flint Hill Farm is grateful to have dedicated groups of volunteers who are committed to the Center's mission of "Feeding the Spirit, Educating the Mind, Preserving the Community." Volunteers provide visitors with unique and personal agricultural experiences.
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Regular Farm Activities (Training will be provided):
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Gathering and Cleaning Eggs
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Stall Help: Duties include washing and filling water buckets, putting hay into stalls, removing manure, and putting in fresh bedding.
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Animal Feeding
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Cow or Goat Milking
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Milk Packaging and Store Stocker
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School Tour Guides
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Summer Camp Counselors: Kinder camp (4-6 yr olds), Horse Camp or Farm Camp (7-13 yr olds)
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Small repairs - wood working, machine skills, mechanic skills.
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Farmers Market Vendors
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Special or Seasonal Projects:
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Paint Jobs
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Landscapers or Yard Maintainers
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Nature Trail Helpers: Upgrading the nature trails throughout the Woods Walk area
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Gardener
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View List of Items to be Prepared
Find our forms and application process by clicking the button below to get started.
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Our Latest volunteer group from Univest built a garden trellis and a turtle pond!
LIVE, LEARN, LEAD
As part of the Flint Hill Farm Education Center the Volunteer Program provides:
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Opportunities for the Education and Personal Development of its Volunteers;
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Opportunities for the Community to Participate and Contribute in tangible ways;
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All of the Animals with the Love and Care they need.
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The Importance of Volunteer Staff to the Farm:
The ‘Extra Hands’ that a volunteer staff provides not only makes the animals happier, but also makes possible a superior level of program quality enabling education center ‘students’ greater personalized attention, and freeing Board Members to invest their time and energies into the Management and Further Development of the Education Center. As our Vocational Program Director puts it, “Volunteers are not paid, because they are Priceless!”
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LIVE:
The farm environment of nature and community, physical outdoor work, and the presence of animals can make one feel alive and add to the quality of volunteer’s lives through friendships, fresh air, whole foods, and exercise.
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LEARN:
As part of the Education Center, volunteers have the opportunity to learn much more than what the constant care of animals and farm includes: washing buckets, passing out hay, picking up manure, etc. High school and college aged volunteers have the opportunity to learn about team work, communication skills, and leadership - skills necessary for life and coveted by future employers.
When assisting with Education Center programs, volunteers will gain experience working with children, disabled, elderly, and public audiences. ​As well as a continued opportunity to learn hands-on about the care, health, and behavior of animals, workplace workshops offer volunteers and others at the farm communication and relationship skills, emergency response skills, workplace ergonomics, and the other such skills.
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LEAD:
Seasoned volunteers will have the opportunity to train and mentor new volunteers. A simple model for training will be offered:
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I do, You Watch
We Do together
You do, I watch
You do
You do, they watch...
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AGE:
There is work enough to share with everyone! Everyone can be an integral part of the farm. For example, even young children can help collect eggs, wash them, and put them in containers. They can walk young goats (that often squeeze through the fence) back to their mothers, and even collect and remove stones from the pasture and garden and fill mud holes. The list is endless….But there is a place for everyone.
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Summary:
The Flint Hill Farm Volunteer Program is part of the Education Center. As such, it seeks to provide opportunities for personal development, as well as the natural life enhancing effects of working together outdoors among animals and friends down on the farm.