Deborah Beck

Experienced, enthusiastic, and dependable animal caregiver/gardener/nature lover looking for employment. Masters-prepared Nurse Educator who especially enjoys working with children and families. Physically strong, hard worker who is happiest outdoors or in a barn. Many years of agriculture experience working on my family’s organic farm caring for livestock and gardening. Able to operate tractors, mowers/lawn equipment, ATVs, manual and automatic transmission vehicles, and motor and sail boats. Experience with most hand and power tools and farm, fencing, and building maintenance. Retail, food service, and military experience. Jill of all trades.

Organic Farmer/Agriculture

40 years of experience in New Hampshire, Maine, Ohio, and Iowa

(1972 – 1980, 1987 – present)

• Care of livestock: Specializing in sheep, goats, cows, horses, poultry, pigs, and rabbits.
• Milking of cows, sheep and goats
• General livestock healthcare (deworming, administering vaccinations, hoof care, treatment of infections, administering medications). I am also a Registered Nurse with 18 years of experience including 10+ years of Emergency/Trauma nursing.
• Obstetric care of sheep and goats
• Care of young livestock (bottle feeding, poultry incubation/brooding, mother/baby bonding)
• Sheep shearing
• Gardening: Sustainably growing, harvesting, preserving, and selling organic produce. Sustainable composting.
• Poultry butchering
• Teaching: Passing on organic farming knowledge to children and families
• Operation of tractors, lawncare equipment, snow removal equipment, manual and automatic transmission vehicles
• Operation of power and hand tools
• Barn maintenance
• Fence maintenance
• Flower and vegetable garden care
• Basic orchard care
• House maintenance
• Springhouse maintenance
• Land management/security
• Use of firearms
• Record keeping
• Computer skills
• Hard worker, fast learner, lots of life experience and common sense