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Tractor Team Completed

Post author:Reuben Smith
Post published:January 1, 2025
Post category:Mentoring and education Tractor Team
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Tractor Team--6 young people from the community joined with us with a project to rebuild a 1969 Ford tractor. This was a much more challenging project than previous ones because we not only completely remanufactured the engine, we restored every aspect of the entire tractor. Rewired the electrical, repaired and repainted the body, restored the hydraulics and serviced the transmission. It was a monumental task, but it was worth it to provide so much training to young people who got to have so much hands-on experience.

Shepherd’s Walk Experience

Post author:Reuben Smith
Post published:October 18, 2024
Post category:Events and experiences Shepherd's Walk Experience
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The Shepherd's Walk Experience is a leadership and team-building activity that we offer church, ministry, or corporate groups in the setting of a real sheep farm. Last fall and this spring, we welcomed Leadership teams from three churches and two Chick-fil-A locations for our distinctive farm-based team-building experience.

New Full-time Intern

Post author:Reuben Smith
Post published:November 2, 2020
Post category:Welding Class
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David Foeckler, had just graduated high school, and was considering working as an intern on a farm for a temporary first experience away from home before starting college.

David and Dyllan clean and prep the block

Fall After School Workshops

Post author:Reuben Smith
Post published:November 1, 2020
Post category:Welding Class
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After school classes open up a vast potential of student impact. The idea is to bring in volunteer experts who will be instructors in a class on their field of expertise once a week for four to six weeks. Then we open up these opportunities to students to come and gain valuable experience and knowledge. There is no limit to what we may be able to teach with this new system.

OJT Program Successfully Complete

Post author:Reuben Smith
Post published:August 5, 2020
Post category:Diesel class
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After over two full years with PLP, Christian Stewart is coming to the completion of his time with us as the first participant in our pilot High School level OJT student intern program.

A New Beginning

Post author:Reuben Smith
Post published:February 28, 2020
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The Mission of the Mission farm is to utilize a working farm as a platform for education, mentoring, and community partnerships. It is a wonderful concept. That is, to take an established working farm and use it as a place where a rural community can partner together to provide mentoring and educational experiences to our youth. One key concept is the…

Swarms!! April Bees Post

Post author:Reuben Smith
Post published:November 13, 2019
Post category:Bees and Honey Diesel class
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Our Beekeeping program has been growing fast. Mentor beekeeper Scott Maclelland, has been training PLP staff and students in lots of Beekeeping skills. Identifying brood patterns and evidence of the queen and her laying strength. Understanding the timing of beekeeping tasks as they relate to the seasons. The list goes on and on. We have been blessed with FOUR new wild…

New Kids On The Block!!

Post author:Reuben Smith
Post published:September 27, 2019
Post category:Goats Uncategorized
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Promise Land Pastures is home to a growing herd of Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats. Our girls are registered with the American Goat Society or AGS. We have been having a number of kids born on the farm recently. There isn't much that's cuter than a baby goat! here are a few of the new additions...