- 859.654.8015
- info@faroutfarmky.com
- 3597 Crooked Creek Rd, Berry, KY
At Far Out Farm, our mission is to provide a peaceful, unhurried space where people can reconnect with nature, our animals, and each other. To keep this environment safe and enjoyable, we rely on a dedicated team of Farm Ambassadors.
If you are an animal lover looking for a reason to get outside, connect with your community, and help others experience the joy of our farm, we would love to have you on our team.
Our Ambassadors serve as the friendly faces of Far Out Farm, helping us facilitate safe, supervised animal interactions for our guests while ensuring our herds are happy and well-cared for.
Guest Supervision: Roaming the public areas to gently guide guests on how to safely interact with, pet, and feed the animals. Light Animal Care: Assisting with watering the herds and ensuring enclosures are tidy. Answering Questions: Serving as a welcoming host to answer basic questions about the farm and the animals.
To keep a consistent schedule for our animals and guests, Ambassadors must commit from 9am-11am one consistent day per week. It's is okay if you cannot make every single one, but at least 80%-90% is ideal.
A genuine desire to work with animals and help facilitate positive interactions for others. The physical ability to perform light farm work, including walking the outdoor grounds and watering the herds. The physical strength to safely lift and carry a single bale of hay or a bucket of water, and the ability to work in any type of weather conditions. A friendly, community-focused attitude.
We lovingly call this a “volunteer” program because the people who join this team are doing it out of a deep passion for the animals and the community.
However, to ensure you are fully covered under our workers’ compensation and liability insurance while you are working around the animals, all Farm Ambassadors are required to fill out a standard W-4 and will officially be paid the Kentucky minimum wage ($7.25/hr) when they work.
This small sum allows us to protect the farm and protect you, so just use it to put a little gas in your tank or to cover your membership.
We know that life is so expensive! If you would like to support the farm by becoming a member, but just can’t cover the membership right now, becoming a farm ambassador is perfect!
Ambassadors get even more access to the farm than traditional members, and in some cases can even bring their families with them while they help out each week.
And the small paycheck you receive for your time on the farm will more than cover your family’s membership each month.
If your schedule doesn’t allow for committing to work a specific day each week, there is a small number of “float pool” ambassadors who are trained and ready, and will be called upon to fill in for others, or participate in special events as needed. You would just need a fairly flexible schedule and the ability to step in a few times per month.
Sure thing! If you are a membership holder, and if your children are at least 8 years old and are able to safely and responsibly be on the farm with only loose supervision. Important: They will not be able to help you or enter restricted areas for liability reasons. If they are at least 15 and eager to get involved, consider having them apply to be ambassadors, too!
While you certainly will be serving the community, it does not count as official community service because of how it is structured.
We always joke that we are non-profit for-profit business. As the saying goes, working with animals is great for people who love animals and hate money.
All jokes aside, we are mission-based and re-invest all of our leftover revenue back into the farm, but we’ve chosen not to go through the extremely complex and restrictive steps required to become a 501(c)(3) at this time.
Unlike our sister farm down the road, Far Out Farm was designed to be relatively safe and easy to manage. Volunteers can help out by keeping an extra eye on the animals, grooming them as needed, putting out hay, filling their water, and doing some light cleaning.
But the number one thing that ambassadors do is help facilitate safe interactions between the public and the animals. The USDA requires that animals interacting with the public are supervised at all time. Just by simply being around, you help us ensure that the membership program, with its daily drop-in and freedom to roam privileges remains compliant with that law.
Overseeing a volunteer program takes a lot of time and resources. We understand that things come up, but we strongly prefer volunteers who want to be involved for a long time to come.
Have questions or want to chat? Just fill out the form below, and we’ll get back to you as soon as the animals allow us to.
