Diversified Farm Apprentice – The Golden Hoof

Last Updated On: noviembre 3rd, 2025 at 10:20AM MST

Contact information

Farm Address:
The Golden Hoof
3375 75th Street
Boulder, Colorado, 80301

Primary Contact: Alice Starek
Secondary Contact: Karel Starek

Primary Phone:
    Type: Cell
    Number: 7209009494
    Email: thegoldenhoof@icloud.com

Secondary Phone
    Type: -----
    Number: 3039562495
    Email: thegoldenhoof@icloud.com

    Email: thegoldenhoof@icloud.com

Website: https://www.thegoldenhoof.com

Internship information

General Farm Description: The Golden Hoof is a 200 acre Diversified, Grass-based, Regenerative Farm in Boulder Colorado with a satellite 1900 acre beef cattle ranch in The San Luis Valley. Our operational systems and philosophy are grounded in ecological stewardship with an eye toward optimizing the health of the land, animal performance, economic return and work-life balance. We are primarily soil/ grass farmers focused on the holistic management of our grass ecosystem moving our cattle daily. Our Boulder operation manages approximately 180 irrigated acres, as well as providing prescriptive grazing services for wetland restoration and fire mitigation in the urban-wildland interface. We finish around 35 grass fed beef cows per year and milk 8-10 grass-fed raw-milk dairy cows daily. Our operation up cycles nutrients from our community’s waste stream which we feed to poultry in a deep bedding system. We process all of our animals on-farm and create myriad value-added products which we offer to the community through our Private Membership Association/On-farm Store. Our Boulder operation produces ready to eat products from a diversified mix of livestock enterprises including grass-finished beef, pork and lamb and dairy products along with eggs, poultry and fruit; all products are marketed exclusively though our on-farm direct-to-consumer private food club.

CRAFT Member Farm? No

Internship Starts: 2/1/26
Internship Ends: 11/21/26
Number of Internship Available: 2
Application Deadline: rolling
Minimum Length of Stay: 1 season

Internship Details:

Apprentices will focus on our grass fed beef finishing operations, our grass fed, raw dairy operations, our poultry operations, the up-cycling of community food waste for our poultry and compost operations and on the production of value-added food products for our customers. Work will be demanding and rewarding and we will be supportive coworkers, managers and coaches. We will anticipate high performance and continual improvement from you as we do from ourselves. This entails not just the acquisition of knowledge and skills, but must be driven by personality characteristics which are derived from a mindset of total responsibility. To be truly useful on the farm you will need to be open minded, curious and ask lots of questions about why we do things the way we do them. Usually there will not be one right answer, but it is important to have these conversations so that we understand the context within which we are making decisions in order to achieve consistent high quality results. A morning meeting will generally be held biweekly after breakfast where we will cover topics necessary for you and the team to learn about, understand and perform your daily tasks.

Educational Opportunities: Apprentices in Boulder will be exposed to all aspects of our regenerative and holistic farm practices as well as the production and sales of regenerative food products through our private membership association at our on-farm store. This will include opportunities to learn everything from using low stress animal stockmanship and animal husbandry; including health assessment, veterinary care, assessing animal performance variables, forage assessment and rotational grazing planning and execution – moving mobile fencing, milking, cleaning, ensuring food safety, raw milk testing, etc. Also activities related to running a private farm store including creating high integrity food products; curing, smoking and fermenting fruits, vegetables, seeds, grains and meats; sausage making, cheesemaking, and storage techniques as well as helping tend to the store.

Skills Desired: We are looking for applicants who have previous meaningful farm/ ranch experience and know that this is their chosen career path. Applicants who are not intimidated by large animals and who are passionate students of low stress animal management.

Meals: We will be providing lunch for you from the bounty of the farm on the days you work. For folks choosing to stay on farm, we will also provide eggs, dairy, veggies, meat for you for your other on-farm meals when we have excesses of these items available (when we have shortages, we refrain from partaking of those things that are in short supply- we also refrain from partaking in high value items). We will also supply you with other bulk staples such as grains and legumes and things like laundry detergent. You should likely not need to purchase much of any food for yourself while you are here.

Stipend: Stipend is $1350 per two weeks plus Workman’s Compensation insurance.

Housing: Housing is available for $500/month (well below market rates) on farm. We have available fully furnished private bedrooms and shared bathrooms in our beautiful, straw bale agricultural worker’s house or in an airstream trailer. There is also access to the shared, fully furnished downstairs kitchen and living space. All needed utensils, bedding, cleaning equipment, etc. can be supplied. No smoking will be allowed indoors.

Preferred method of Contact: email