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Building and maitenance on rural horse ranch

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The experience

We are looking for volunteers that have handy skills to help us with outside projects on our ranch like ...
Fencing, building horse shelters and other structures, firewood, clearing pastures of hazards like sticks and rocks, property maitenance, and a variety of other projects.
we live on a 127 acre ranch surrounded by 3 sides of crownland and directly facing Green Lake. Excellent for outdoor enthusiasts that enjoy spending time in nature,

What you offer

5 hours of help per day

Building & Repairing: Help with a wide range of repairs or building.

What you get

2 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Free Laundry: You can use our laundry room freely.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Fast Internet Access: High-speed internet for you to work remotely

Requirements

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

Program Details

We have a wide variety of projects we are working on completing this year. Outdoor riding arena, horse obstacle park, fencing, horse shelters, trail clearing, parking and camping area and more. Firewood collection is a year long task.

Activities & Shift

We enjoy in our time off taking volunteers boating, wake surfing, tubing and swimming, if interested to other ranches to experience brandings, rodeos when possible, karaoke in town,local hikes and waterfalls. We do live quite a ways from town (35 minutes) so volunteers that best suit the ranch are outdoorsy and enjoy hiking or other outside activities in their time off.

If you're interested in horses you are welcome to watch any lessons or clinics going on at the ranch. There may be some limited riding opportunity to those seriously interested and wanting to learn about western riding and horsemanship but we can't guarentee it at this time. The main focus on the ranch is training competitive Reined Cowhorses, teaching lessons and clinics. Most of the horses on the ranch are clients horses here for me personally to train and compete with, my own competition horses, and our older horses that are used for lessons, clinics and my kids horses. There is always lots of horses to groom and spend time with and lots of opportunity to observe and learn but due to limited horses that are not already booked for lessons ride time is not always possible.

Rules

As we live in an area prone to wildfires we do not allow smoking on our property. We do have small children and expect that volunteers are kind and respectful with our kids. Household chores are shared with all people in the house expected to pitch in, we do the majority of the cooking and ask that you help clean up the kitchen daily.