Hello friends of the so-called Fediverse,

Rancho de la Libertad is attempting to hire a farm manager. It's a role related to project management and administrative assisting, but ideally we're looking for someone either stoked to train up their animal husbandry and gardening skills or someone who already has some knowledge in these areas.

Please read all bullets, as this may be one role but it also could be two or so smaller roles if folks find this with specialized experience in one or more key areas!

We need assistance with tasks ranging from food inventorying and ordering things when they run out to:
• helping manage a calendar of key events related to livestock breeding, planting, and harvesting
• helping to research weather trends for the year both locally and regionally as they relate to planting
• communicating with vendors, other potential hands for the farm (including helping find and vet applicants for ad hoc jobs as required)
• building a website for our rabbitry, potentially managing ARBA registration
• building a real website for the Ranch that we can self-host
• for the right, trusted person, potentially helping us manage finances better (I've been trying and failing to keep track of all of our spending on infrastructure)
• helping manage and organize key events at the Ranch including Full Moon Dinners and our Wheel of the Year events
• errand running (occasionally)

Ideally this person will be local and willing to be on site for some training and some crucial tasks. If someone wishes to just apply to build us a website, though, this could be a remote gig for the right person. Ultimately, we're looking for someone who cares about what we're doing, wants the experience, has some general background knowledge of animal husbandry and either agriculture, permaculture, or ecological regeneration OR is interested in doing the work to get up to speed. What we really need is someone who can come in and build us a system for doing things.

Initially we can offer $20-25 per hour for the right person and around 10 or so hours per week (not always on site). There's some room for this to grow, and potential for space to live on the Ranch after some time getting to know and trust one another.

So! Please boost away and feel free to share on other socials we don't have if you have em. We really would like to find someone local to the Joshua Tree or Morongo Basin, CA area but maybe you're a nomad who wants some extra cash or you can do part of this remotely - let us know!

**Edit: forgot to add that if you or someone you know is interested, please email us at [email protected] to further discuss and have an official job description sent over

**I forgot to mention: this job is friendly to folks with physical or other disabilities, I suppose insofar as you can get around (transit out here isn't great but it exists, even way out here there's a shuttle to and from town two days a week). This is not a physical labor job and doesn't require a ton of time onsite.

*** We are so willing to pay under the table and prefer it if that helps you keep your tax burden low or keep critical social benefits that you'd otherwise lose with additional income ***

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Annual reminder to visit Auntie Bannock when you're in #AlertBay. She's the Auntie of a couple of my #Namgis friends up there. It's the only #bannock joint on #CormorantIsland.

I'm wearing her big bunny head 🐰
From my 2023 visit.

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I'll also crosspost this with the updated figures from today's harvest for those of you interested. Since January first, we've produced on-site:

111 dozen eggs (that's 1,336 eggs approximately)
175.25 pounds of meat
21 pounds of vegetables
16.5 pounds of lard
7 pounds of animal fodder

This does not count the 100 or so pounds of unrendered fat in our freezer, nor does it count almost all of our spring crops that have yet to come to harvest (only the early season ones that we already harvested). We've given lots away, and we have lots in our freezer and canned for later.

Our inputs are minimal: once a year we make a bulk organic animal feed order, we use some well water, and I did order seeds last year (though often I save them from our own vegetables). No fertilizers, no mineral inputs, no purchased soil, no pots, no trays, no tilling, nothing. We've transformed about a half acre or so (and growing) of our six acres of previously landfilled, compacted, and completely soil-collapsed land into cultivable soil. It's taking time, but the momentum is building and it's getting easier every season to rebuild topsoil and produce more on-site with less inputs.

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This month's newsletter release for paid subscribers is a compilation of the six biggest things we think you need to consider before going off on your homesteading, permacultur-ing, or back-to-the-land-ing dream.

While this might sound corny, we see you. We know that lots of you are disillusioned with the polycrisis and the economic and social institutions we live under and you wish for either sovereignty or an exit from capitalism or just to get out of your day job (or all three). Alternatively, we see those of you who are just trying to figure out how to reduce your own impact while seeking to solve some of the more structural issues, because let's face it: there is a possibility that all we can do is what *we* can do, because we know that the powers-that-be really might not care that we need change.

So we sat down and thought about what mistakes we made, and what mistakes others make, and what it is that people are ultimately looking to do when they try to get into a life like this. The result is useful, we think, and we hope that if you can spare $5 you'll look into it. Any contributions help us with our own sovereignty project, and help us feed others, and help us rewild this section of the Mojave and (we hope) a big enough section to make meaningful microclimate impacts one day.

If you read it, or contribute in any way, or share it, thank you very much. We appreciate you, and you're helping to keep us going.

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https://rancholibertad.com/6-things-to-consider-before-you-even-think-about-homesteading/

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