El Sagrado Farm in La Jara, CO is looking for a committed, hard-working long-term employee beginning April 1, 2023.
Job description includes all of the following:
•Sustainable Living-We are off the grid, biodynamic, regenerative, and certified organic.
•Field Crops-We flood irrigate, plant and bale/harvest 70 acres of alfalfa, and 15 acres of wheat and other grains. We use tractors and draft horses to farm these acres. The rest of our 320 acres is dryland pasture.
•Animals-We have one of the largest herds of Navajo-Churro Sheep in the U.S. We raise them for meat, wool and breeding stock sales. We are expecting over 100 lambs this spring. We also have chickens, horses, livestock guard dogs, guard donkeys and llamas. We have about 20 miles of fencing that requires constant maintenance.
•Market Garden-We raise greenhouse and field vegetable crops with drip irrigation, and sell them locally.
Call Karen at 719-992-8263 for more information or if you are interested.