Regenerative Farming

Opportunity:
Share a working farm

Farm: Mats Fine Oils
Location: Straffordville, Southwestern Ontario
Housing: live on-farm, see below

We need to find someone to help us in our old age and in time become a partner in the farm.

This is a challenge to find someone that wants to continue pressing oils and milling flour as well as growing the various crops on our organic farm.

We have well maintained machinery for tractors and horses and can offer accommodation and wages. Having farm experience is necessary and knowing practical skills like plumbing, woodworking, welding, engine mechanics, soil health, with tractor and combine driving. And having worked with horses would help too.

We have newly constructed and approved apartments on the farm. Our organic farm is self sufficient in electricity and food in gardens for humans and field crops such as oats, spelt and rye for animals. Should fossil fuels become in short supply we can farm with horses but also have tractors which run on our own sunflower oil with all the equipment necessary for plowing planting, tine weeding, grain cleaning and combining. There is a good water supply and most of our electricity is available from solar cells or diesels that also run on sunflower oil. Most of our income is from our oil pressing the crops on our farm and from the spelt flour we grow and mill on the farm. We grow spelt, rye, camelina, and sunflowers.

The farm is equipped with a full machine shop, welding shop and woodworking shop. The farm is clear of any mortgage or debts and has a steady income for the oils and flour production.

We are located about 30 minutes south of Tillsonburg, Ontario.

Please view and study our web page at: matsfineoilsandflour.ca

If you feel you can qualify please write to: mat@matsfineoilsandflour.ca

We have draft horses that work in the fields, a cow and many tractors that use sunflower oil as fuel, lots of horse drawn machines, two barns a welding and a woodworking shop. We are located close to Straffordville Ontario.

We are not associated with any religious organization. No smoking or illegal drugs are to be used on our farm.

Applicants can also earn an income from a rented field while sharing the chores of keeping our farm going. There is a Tillsonburg farmers market and Port Rowan farmers market close to our farm.

If you are interested you need to have been raised on a farm or, and have about 5 years of farming experience. One must have a drivers license and have experience driving a tractor, combine, swather and truck. You must be able to repair equipment,weld and operate in a machine shop on a lathe or milling machine.

We have a very wonderful organic lifestyle that is debt and mortgage free and want to share it with someone who is equally enthusiastic about regenerative organic farming. We have every piece of equipment necessary for growing seeds and harvesting for our vegetable oils pressing and flour milling. We are self sufficient for food for ourselves, horses, cow and chickens as well as having solar electricity, diesels and diesel generators that run on sunflower oil. We have plenty of water and a greenhouse. See our internet site

We have heritage chickens and organic eggs. As well as the three draft horses we have tractors, a combine and a swather with all of the equipment needed for tractors or horses in the fields, for harvesting and planting. We practice regenerative farming using pastures for animals, having crops only after a few seasons of pasture to restore soils with cover crops and compost.

There is lots of water. We have a welding shop, machine shop and wood working shop and all the equipment necessary for making and maintaining our equipment. We have a wood lot were we log with the horses. We heat our water and buildings with a wood fired stoves in the winter and have evacuated tubes in the summer for hot water. Most of our electricity is provided by solar cells or sunflower powered diesels. The farm has a good customer base for our oil and flour sales which could also be customers for a vegetable or other businesses. Write me with your resume.

Email us at: mat@matsfineoilsandflour.ca 

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Thanks, -mat