South Carolina
Log Cabin Farm, Gail & Vic Campbell, 3855
Pennington Road, Greer, SC 29651, 864-895-9094. Partially self-sustaining
small farm run by wife and husband doing most work by hand or horse power,
tractor only when necessary. We have an Amish-built 40'x80' timberframe
pegged barn for our Brabant brood mare operation.We want to pass on what
we know of living simpler lifestyle.
- Source of power: 9 Brabants,1956 Ferguson tractor.
- Horses are used to: serve as broodmares; mow, ted, rake hay;
work gardens; walking plow, 2 sulky plows, corn binder, manure spreader,
grain drill, hay wagon, disc, cart and wagon.
- Acreage: 125, including leases; 25 in corn, hay, oats, 2
gardens, apple trees, sorghum and cane patch, woodlot.
- Other livestock: laying hens, donkey, Fjords, Shetland pony,
Quarterhorses, polled Herefords; petting farm that includes of a few
goats, sheep, and a mini mare that pulls a cart.
- Skills offered in: basic working knowledge of family farm;
harnessing, feeding, and working draft horses; managing a small herd
of beef cattle, birthing calves and foals,starting young horses to
work in harness, making homemade sorghum molasses from planting to
harvest, andusing horse-drawn molasses mill.
- Work hours: 8 hrs/day, days/wk by arrangement.
- Terms: 1 apprentice at a time, preferably full-time for one year
but will consider shorter periods of two, four, or six months; 3 references
required.
- Stipend: $200/month if apprentice works 6 days/wk.
- Accommodations: by arrangement.
- Apprentice must be: horse oriented; interested in helping with all
farm activities in return for learning, experience, and fun; on time, kind to
animals, willing to do demanding physical work; clean (no tobacco, alcohol,
drugs).
- Visit first: if apprentice desires.
- Trial period: 1 week.
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