EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

We are not currently hiring.

But, we welcome extraordinary applicants. If you would like us to keep your information on file, please send your resume and work history, letter of interest, and three work references to oneillfamilyfarm54@gmail.com.

  • Work references should include: name and contact information, relationship to applicant, applicant’s position while working with referencing person

The ideal candidate can work well independently and with others, is honest, responsible, motivated, and cares about their work and our collective resources. 

Employees works closely with farm owners and other employees to:

  • Rotationally graze livestock

  • Supplementally feed livestock daily in winter and inclement weather

  • Assist with planned stock operations, including: scanning (pregnancy, back fat, loin depth), calving, lambing, shearing, weaning

  • Assess livestock health and herd behavior (sheep, beef cattle, goats)

  • Identify, communicate and treat disease as appropriate

  • Required qualifications and/or experience:

  • Positive attitude & enthusiasm

  • Valid driver’s license

  • Willingness to learn

  • Transparent, honest communicator. Can offer and receive constructive feedback 

  • Collaborative work ethic

  • Punctual, reliable, flexible, honest

  • Responsibility for actions

  • Cares about resource preservation for future generations:

    • soil-first agriculture

    • preserving biological resources

    • animal welfare 

  • Experience with sheep, beef cattle and/or goats. At a minimum, wants to learn about sheep, cattle, and goat livestock raising, pasturing, herding, and doctoring with the goal of developing keen observation skills regarding pasture and animal health and animal behavior

  • Enjoys working with dogs (herding border collies & livestock guardians)

  • Ability to operate stick-shift vehicles, tractors, trailers, skid-loaders

  • working (sometimes long) flexible hours outside, regardless of weather 

    • Can ergonomically lift 50 pounds

Additional beneficial (NOT required) skills:

  • Fencing experience

  • Welding experience

  • Electric and mechanical machinery repair

  • Border collie herding dog training experience

Location: Winona, Minnesota (not negotiable, remote work is not an option)

 

We stand on the lands of the Great Sioux Nation, Wahpeton, Sauk, and Meskwaki people. We’re committed to honoring these people who came before us and their sacred agricultural practices as stewards of the Earth. We practice gratitude for this place, soil regeneration, carbon sequestration, and sustaining people and our no-plan-B-planet in a perennial, never tilled, beyond organic prairie pasture ecosystem. We’ve been harnessing sun, water, milk, and grass into lamb, beef, goat, and eggs as a family for twenty-five years and plan to for many more to come. Learn more here.