donovan duncan

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We are hiring for full time animal husbandry & farming position. This person should have a passion for animal husbandry, landscaping, growing crops, be excited to work in the Alabama sunshine, be a motivated self-starter who treats this like a career, has a clean record, is reliable, and has a skill set ranging from landscaping to building maintenance, and caring for animals.

More about the role:

This for a role on a a touring farm. Applicants should understand this is a professional environment around an organic farm. Trails, hedges, borders need to be maintained and kept clean. Yards, gardens, orchards, etc must be kept in good shape, buildings, fences, and so on must be kept in good repair. Animals need to be loved, cared for, bred, fed, and treated with respect in accordance to the rules of permaculture.

This is a year round position, and a full time position.

General tasks include:


Feeding animals
Creating breeding plans
Managing stock (cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, chickens)
Weeding
Mowing
Light carpentry
Weed eating
Picking fruit and vegetables
Trimming Trees
Painting and general building maintenance
Planting flowers, plants, trees, and maintaining them


Many of these tasks are expected to be done every day. You must be willing to work hard, quickly, and be able to follow directions while also making good decisions. You must enjoy the outdoors, animals, and providing the best quality products to our customers.

Other expectations:

We are wanting someone who's passionate about the work, wants to become an expert in this type of farming, cares passionately about providing good clean food to the world, cares passionately about the land, animals, and making the world a better place, and who's willing to work hard to become an expert in these things while growing with our farm over time.

Please text or email if you're interested or would like more information.

donovan AT huntsvillerealty.com

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Thanks!
5 years ago
Boy do I wish I could find more people like you Travis!

I had 60 acres in Alabama, and am working hard on creating a permaculture paradise.

In the last 1 year (since I bought the land), I've turned it from a mostly grass/wood lot completely untouched landscape to housing over 300 chickens, 10 pigs, 300 fruit trees, 500 berry plants, and some very large gardens. Almost all of it has been done the permaculture way.

My struggles right now are:

A. getting reasonable help - even with offering people to live on the land, make a light wage, and supply them with materials, most people don't seem to want to work hard, are not "in it for the long haul", and very few people seem passionate about what we're trying to do.

B. Making a buck - I'm still starting out, and the expenses are high, because I'm choosing to sacrifice money for time, meaning sometimes I just spend the money for something I could build myself if I had more time/help, but in the not too distant future those two should flip-flop. The issue starts to become needing more help with selling/deliveries. Right now we sell nearly everything we make, but it actually takes a lot of time.

Here's a drone flight from last summer, we've added a lot more even since then!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRtjsBdjrvQ

Rock on Travis, and again - I hope I meet someone like you who'd want to live and work on the land with me!
8 years ago