Farm Hand / Butcher – Field of Dreams Farm

Last Updated On: April 8th, 2025 at 01:02PM MST

Contact information

Farm Address:
5350 S COMMERCE RD
Watertown, TN 37184
Watertown, Tennessee, 37184

Primary Contact: Christopher L Simpson
Secondary Contact: Suellen Simpson

Primary Phone:
    Type: Cell
    Number: 6155980886
    Email: chris@fieldofdreamsfarmtn.com

Secondary Phone
    Type: Cell
    Number: 6155981840
    Email: Suellen@fieldofdreamsfarmtn.com

    Email: Suellen@fieldofdreamsfarmtn.com

Website: https://www.fieldofdreamsfarmtn.com

Internship information

General Farm Description: Field of Dreams Farm is a family operated farm committed to producing delicious and healthful meats and eggs for Nashville and the surrounding areas. We use no chemicals on our farm allowing all our livestock and poultry to benefit from our fertile pastures, rich in nutrients. The feeds we use are non-GMO. We are located in Watertown, Tennessee and currently raise pastured eggs, chicken, duck, turkey, pork and beef. Almost immediately after viewing “Food Inc.” in April 2010, we began making plans to raise our own meats and also to produce extra for individuals interested in purchasing good clean food. We’ve gone from a 5 acre farm in Lebanon, TN to our 115 acre farm in Watertown in order that we can continue to grow and supply more and more people with our delicious products. We supplement our poultry with non-gmo grains using a combination of fish meal and soy for their protein. Our pigs also eat non-gmo grains from the Mennonite community in KY; And of course our cows only eat grass. We firmly believe in the humane treatment of animals allowing them to thrive in their natural manner, enjoying the outdoors as they were meant to. We believe in raising our animals, benefiting from the earth, and thus the earth benefiting from the animals.

CRAFT Member Farm? No

Internship Starts: Immediate
Internship Ends: minimum 1 year with possibility of longer duration
Number of Internship Available: 1 to 2
Application Deadline: n/a
Minimum Length of Stay: 1 year

Internship Details:

We are looking for a person who can do all outside work as well as learn to be a butcher.  We raise poultry (meat birds, layers, ducks, turkey), Pigs and Cattle….we practice sustainable agriculture methods.  We have an onsite State Certified Custom Slaughter Facility where all of our animals are processed.  We have an onsite farm store for all of our products as well as do deliveries once every 2 weeks.

Farm Hand work would consist of moveable cattle fencing, moving and feeding chicken huts daily and fencing weekly, moving and feeding hens and fencing, moving and feeding pigs.  Other duties would be putting chicks out to pasture, gathering meat birds for slaughter, helping with the processing of meat birds.   Other various projects and duties such as the maintenance of equipment, shelters etc….

Butchering would consist of:  learning how to dispatch, skin, gut and split carcasses to put in walk-in Cooler; learning how to break down carcasses into prime and retail cuts including packaging and labeling for Beef, Pork, Chicken, Duck, Turkey and Lamb.

 

Educational Opportunities: Learn Seam Butchering skills, Learn sustainable agricultural practices and the economics of it as well.

Skills Desired: No, but looking for someone who has good common sense, motivated to do this type of work, likes to stay busy, has the ability to anticipate next steps and can pick up and learn quickly.

Meals: No, but we provide meats and some vegetables

Stipend: Yes, $12 to start while learning....$15 once accomplished in butchery and possibly more if valuable and can be on their own.

Housing: There is a possibility of housing

Preferred method of Contact: Text or call