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Megalong Valley Australian Heritage Farm, located in the Blue
Mountains is seeking someone to undertake the responsibility of
looking the Heritage Farm section with the farmyard
animals and associated infrasturctures, together with gardening and
showing people through the Heritage “Bush Farm”.
Applicants should be able to have not only good husbandry skills
with livestock, but a genuine love for them and ensuring their
environment is clean and well maintained.
It
entails looking after the property, gardens and animals - poultry,
pigs, sheep, cows, ponies, goats, calves & rabbits. The applicant
would need to have good husbandry skills, and a genuine love for the
animals and their well being. The proposal would suit someone who
likes to work on the land, enjoy people and showing others the
aspects of country living - (but no dreamers please.. animals and
bush gardens need doers not dreamers).
It is
essential that you would need to have a good eye for neatness and
presentation.
We are
seeking someone who can look after the small Heritage Farm area,
which is designed to show the concept of back to basics of rural
living and sustainable agriculture. The proposition would suit
someone with enthusiasm for country style living. The Megalong
Australian Heritage Centre is currently in the process of
diversifying the “Bush Farm” into an example of the rural community
that has existed not only in the Valley but the Blue Mountains and
regions. The small heritage farm area caters to the vast and ever
increasing educational market,
We are
endeavoring to demonstrate the basic farming practices that have
existed and involves sustainable agricultural and environmental
principles, so the applicant would have to be able to implement
vegetable gardens and tree nurseries etc.
The
applicant would need to have demonstrable knowledge of
animals, be able to drive agricultural machinery, general property
maintenance skills and undertake the heritage vegetable gardening.
The OldDays OldWays - Living in the Bush programme for schools is
an ideal concept for anyone who has an interest in this field.
The
proprietors have been developing the Centre so that the
children and upcoming generations can appreciate our Australian
Heritage and if you share the love to impart heritage and history to
others then apply to:
Megalong Valley Heritage Farm,
Megalong Rd, Megalong Valley NSW 2785
0247 878 188 fax 047 879 116
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