The Farm
Sandhill invites you to visit the farm. At any given time, we have free range/cage free chickens, pastured broilers, pastured cows, sheep, turkeys, and even ducks! We can teach you several aspects of what it takes to get good food from pasture to table.
Learn to butcher,
make milk soap, yogurt or cheese.
Take home some eggs and ground beef!
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INTERESTED IN A FARMING APPRENTICESHIP?
If you are interested in anything from raising backyard poultry to pastured poultry, or even milkking a herd and proving pork and lamb for your table, come work with our Sandhill family for a while. You will receive free product and a minimal stipende.
Work with fencing, carpentry, quick auto fixes, tractor work, pachaging and marketing. We will also work with ministry or seminary students learning the bivocational life. Scot is credentialed to act as faculty support for such interests.
Along with farming, ministry opportunites aboud in Barry County, and Peace-making, servanthood, and Quaker HIstory are all areas of expertise that Sandhill can facilitate.
What you might find at Sandhill
Flock starter Layer Poults
We raise a variety of chicks until they are just about to lay, or are leaving us poult eggs. These are great birds for your first flock, or to add to an existing one.
Learn about processing
At Sandhill we butcher our own poultry, lamb, and pork. You can join us a learn the whole process. Raise your own feeder pig until it is ready for your table and freezer.
Kids love it at the farm
Sandhill is a great place for children and homeschoolers to get comfortable with animals, see a variety of livestock, and run around 13 acres of freedom. Families can even camp at the farm!
Learn to Milk,
earn your herd share!
Work two two hour shift after you learn to milk and do chores, and you get a herd share and lots of other Sandhill products. It is hard work, but we are patient as long as you are punctual.
Sandhill manages a small flock of Katahdin sheep and is looking to grow establish a small herd for meat, for sale, and for teaching.
These are hairless sheep, so we no longer have to shear wool and do nothing with it. If you would like to raise your own wool, contact use for different options. We are a community farm!
