FEATURED JOB OPENING: Caretaker for Thornhill Farm - Independence, MN

Hello! I am the owner of Thornhill Farm in Independence, Minnesota. Our property is 56 acres, which the previous owner spent 30 years restoring into native Minnesotan prairie. Currently, we are designing our farm to both conserve the prairie and the "wildlife corridor" it is part of AND to accommodate our dream of having horses. Our horses are now being boarded nearby, but we hope to find a caretaker or caretaker couple that can love Thornhill as we do. First, we would love to find someone who has horse experience--but a "horse person" with an open mind. At Thornhill, we are designing a "paddock paradise", both to conserve the prairie and to provide our horses with a nearly-mile-long track where they can move around in a way that is healthy for them. There are not any farms of this nature in the West Metro (west of Minneapolis), so we are hoping to educate horse- and landowners when the project is done.

We are also working on creating extensive gardens, so someone with a love for plants as well as animals would be wonderful. The land is beautiful, but takes some management. Trees always wanna keep popping up in our prairie! We are also hoping to have a bevy of other animals, a proper hobby farm, in the future, but all of this hinges on finding the right caretaker! We are a family that is quite busy, and most of us travel quite a bit, so we need someone steady. Carpentry and handyman services are very much needed, for things large and small (though the small is more important, as I can get others to do the "big" stuff). For instance, someone needs to move the perches in the chicken coop--they were built up to high and too close to the wall! Poor Branwell (the rooster) will not fit up there!

Of course, we are not going to complain if you come with other skills as well--baking a pie or something like that!

Housing will be included, though not on the property, but nearby in a newly-constructed townhouse. We appreciate privacy and think our caretaker(s) might want some of his/her own as well!