If you are interested in volunteering in any capacity, please Contact Us via email or in person to inquire; if via email, use the subject “Volunteer”.

Live-In / Work-Trade Personnel: We are not accepting any live-in, WWOOFers, or work-trade personnel at this time. Thank you.

Common Tasks for Volunteers

Common tasks that may be undertaken by volunteers at Kinstone include:

  • Customer relations – greeting visitors, answering questions and providing information
  • Cleaning in the Visitor Center such as sweeping, vacuuming, dusting, mopping, cleaning bathroom and/or kitchen, washing tables, etc.
  • Cleaning outdoor buildings (Dragons Keep, Chapel, Sauna, Yurt, Cabin): sweep, dust, general upkeep
  • Gardening (planting, weeding, hoeing, digging, insect control, mulching, harvesting, seed saving, composting)
  • Landscape Maintenance (push mowing, weed whacking/trimming, pruning, raking, picking up debris, invasive removal, pulling weeds, etc)
  • Animal Care (cleaning out goat pens, feeding goats, milking goats, trimming goat hooves)
  • Earthworks, stone work, moving soil and gravel, maintenance of paths and trails
  • Tree care (pruning, clearing/trimming around young trees, fencing, tree protectors)
  • Chainsaw work to cut up fallen trees, remove small trees, and trim branches from trees
  • Office work: filing, book-keeping, data-entry, organizing, copying, printing, and other general office tasks
  • Kinstone Gift Shop help: assisting with in person sales, managing online orders (fulfillment, shipping, etc), assist with inventory, daily sales reports, etc.
  • Marketing and promotion, graphic design, posters and fliers, community calendar entries
  • Social Media assistance
  • Videography / Film making

IMPORTANT: Anyone wishing to help out on a volunteer basis must be approved to do so and must agree to follow all policies and procedures. After approval, all volunteers are required to register at Kinstone in advance of performing any volunteer activities. Registration includes completing and signing a volunteer agreement and liability release form, an image release form and a health & emergency contact form. Volunteers must check in and sign the Volunteer Log in the Kinstone Visitor Center before beginning any work, every time. Upon completion of the volunteer work for any given day, the volunteer must then check out and initial the Volunteer Log again before leaving.