Youth may request to raise animals as a part of one of our projects.  Steer, hogs, goats, and lambs may be raised in one of our large animal barns and chickens and turkeys may be raised at our poultry barn and yard.  We also have an active Rabbit project, but rabbits are rasied at home and not on the Farm.

Farm Clean-Up and Compost

All of our youth raising animals at the farm are required to participate in 6 hours of Farm Clean Up Days during the year.  There are 4-6 Farm Clean-ups scheduled, so you may choose the hours that work for you to complete the mandatory hours.  Adults are encouraged to help as well.  Youth who raise animals at the farm are required to regularly remove the waste generated by the animal and can learn about more with our Compost Project.  We partner with the Belmont 4-H club for Composting and youth raising an animal at the farm should attend the composting meetings since we do this on site at our farm!