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  • #43862
    Michael Low
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    Looking for someone to help with our farm work in exchange for rent, and to manage their own enterprise here such as (but not limited to) market gardens, milk cows, winter logging with oxen/single horse. Couples welcome.

    67 acre farm. Mixed pasture & forest. Currently 2 acres of gardens and orchards with room to expand.

    Mixed livestock: dairy goats, meat sheep and goats, laying and meat chickens, bees, beef & dairy cows.

    Animal powered: draft horse & oxen team; 4 calves in training.

    Charcoal-making facility producing biochar preps. Our website is: http://www.vermontbiochar.com

    On-site housing available: 30 ft yurt with finished kitchen & bath, plus separate loft bedroom.

    Contact:
    Green Fire Farm
    Michael Low & Hart Brent
    4287 Bayley Hazen Road
    West Danville, VT
    802-684-2570
    hart@vtlink.net

    #74136
    Donn Hewes
    Keymaster

    Hi Michael, Nice looking place and animals. I will follow this post with interest as my wife and I will soon be advertising for something similar. We have had interns for several years and I think we will continue to; but soon another house on our farm will come available, and we have been imagining an independent farmer living there that might work for us on occasion in exchange for rent. It will be interesting to see how this idea develops. Donn

    #74135
    Does’ Leap
    Participant

    Michael and Donn:

    We have had a similar arrangement (i.e. work for rent) on our farm for the past 2.5 years and it has been working well. It sounds like a great opportunity. Michael, if you are in Vermont’s Current Use program you will be able to exclude the yurt and 2 acres provided the person/s works on your farm and you receive no income in rent.

    Good luck.

    George

    #74137
    KMichelle
    Participant

    Although I do not plan on returning to Vermont until Spring 2013, a situation like this would be very appealing to me! I would need space enough for my 3 horses (2 draft 1 saddle), and would be willing to buy hay etc… That’s pretty far in the future but I’ll keep it in mind and would particularly like to visit since I will begin prep work on my homestead which currently has very poor soil. The first few years I only plan on setting up bee hives and planting pollinator/cover crops. My homestead land is in Plymouth Vermont but I am very framiliar with the Danville area and in fact spent several summers boarding my horse at the Morgan Horse Farm!

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