This place is amazing!!! Heifer International does so much. It is fun to be here and learn about all they do. Our work....not so much fun....No, it's not really so bad. Our five member NOMADS team is tearing down a chicken house. It is 32 ft x 300 ft. whew, let me tell you, that's a lot of rusty nails!
This chicken house is from the 1980's when this ranch was a distribution center for the animals. Now animals are gotten from places closer to where they will be given....saves some on the shipping costs. The chickens that are here are free range now.
This ranch was where Heifer International started. It is now an educational center. It houses 15 different kinds of animals- including water buffalo, camels, llamas. It is a certified organic farm. Studies are done to see how best to raise the crops and animals in order to teach the recipients.
We are provided with lunch (wahoo) that is grown on the ranch. There is also a global village where visitors are able to stay in houses or huts similar to those in various parts of the world. They are given meager provisions and have to barter or trade with the others to prepare meals and get what they need to 'live,' They also care for animals. Neat.
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