Volunteer Your Time

Volunteering at Silver Creek Animal Sanctuary can be a rewarding and enjoyable experience. Not only will you make new human and four-legged friends, but you can experience the well-documented health benefits of interacting with animals as well as the emotional fulfillment that comes from being in a beautiful, healthy, healing environment (there is a very good reason the goats insisted on living on top of the Sanctuary property).

As a working farm and non-profit charity, we have an enormous range of volunteer activities one may participate in depending on one’s personal health status and interests.

Our list of volunteer tasks (see below) encompasses everything from farm work and animal interaction to organic gardening activities. For those who prefer activities of a more clerical nature, we have the ever important office duties, PR activities, and humane education. We also have many activities that can be done from one’s own home.

Teaching volunteers the activities they are interested in is initially a time-consuming process for the staff and for that reason we request a commitment of at least 4 hours monthly for a minimum of 6 months.

If volunteering at the Sanctuary is something you or your organization would like to pursue

1. CLICK HERE to download a volunteer enrollment form.
   Once completed and signed, FAX them to 503-873-9818 or MAIL it to:

Silver Creek Animal Sanctuary
PO Box 402
Fairmont, MN 56031

• KEEP AN EYE ON OUR CALENDAR, where we post volunteer projects as well as classes and fun events.

If there is a volunteer activity you would like to pursue which we have not considered, please contact us at 503-873-9818 to discuss further.

Questions or comments? Why not post your thoughts to the Volunteers' Blog

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List of Volunteer Activities

Working with Animals

• Direct animal care and upkeep (feeding, watering, clean-up, assisting with examinations, etc)
• Animal touch (taming our new four legged arrivals with petting, brushing, a gentle touch)
• Bottle feeding baby goats
• Hoof trimming (experience required if trimming, none if goat holding)
• Help with shearing (twice per year)
• Assisting in animal transport (to vet’s, or in a local rescue pick-up)
• Volunteer to be on our Emergency Animal Assistance List (assist in emergencies in the care and transport of our animals to vet clinic or hospital)

Working with People

• Assisting with animal therapy (experience/training required)
• Assisting at animal education and PR events
• Assisting at fund raising activities
• Assisting at Farmer’s Market booth

Sanctuary Maintenance

• Work in one of our developing organic gardens
• Basic farm maintence and upkeep (usually supervised by Tony, the llama)
• Participating in our of our themed work parties
• Supply pick-up

Vital Support Functions

• Clerical and office work
• Blog-tending
• Writing website articles
• Washing angora wool in preparation for sale