Job Title: Farm Hand – Summer 2025
Location: Pt. Mackenzie
Compensation: DOE 
Term: Summer 2025 – with potential to roll into full-time

About the Job:
Blankenship Farms is looking for an ambitious, hard-working individual to join us for the 2025 summer season. This is not an office job – it's long days, tough conditions, and real work that keeps a farm running. You’ll be part of a small team responsible for feeding a huge part of Alaska's livestock.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Operate and maintain heavy machinery (tractors, skid steers, balers, etc.)

• Perform mechanical maintenance and minor repairs on equipment in the field and shop

• Feed and handle livestock 

• Deliver and stack hay (bale hauling, loading/unloading trucks)

​Qualifications:

• Must be physically fit (able to lift 75+ lbs repeatedly, crawl under equipment, and work long hours)

• Comfortable with long days in hot, dusty, wet, or cold environments

• Prior farm or ranch experience is strongly preferred

• Basic mechanical aptitude (grease, oil, change filters, fix flats)

• Clean driving record preferred 

What We Offer:

• DOE pay with room for performance-based raises

• Potential to transition to full-time, year-round work, Flexible Winter hours (if selected)

• Possibility to join our family long term, with truck and housing provided

• Opportunity to learn real-world farming skills in hay, livestock, and equipment

• Honest work with honest folks – no fluff, no corporate, no HR

• Access to automotive and welding shop

• Farm fresh products (meat/eggs)

What you should know:

• This is a farm, must be comfortable with death. Livestock are slaughtered, or die of natural causes and in some situations must be put down.

• We are at the mercy of the weather. This can mean working weekends, working long stretches or non-standard hours. 

• It can be uncomfortable, we try to keep everything as comfortable as possible, but things break and the weather waits for no one. Sometimes this means operating without air conditioning 

• The commute is long. Gas subsidy may be available. Prefer those close to Pt. Mackenzie

• Anything can be taught, anything can be learned. If you have the right attitude but not the resume apply anyway.

• The summers are intense, the winters not so much.

• If you made it this far you passed the first test! We are small but growing fast and ideally want an ambitious self-starter with vision who wants to share in the rewards of the team rather than just be an employee.