My name is ashley toner and i am from Havre, Montana. i attend Carroll College as a pre medical student. i would like to spend my entire summer in the country; riding, moving cows, fencing, you name it. i love the outdoors and i also love to work. i have work experience loading, stacking and unloading tires at Tire-Rama in Havre, operating heavy equipment and constructing natural gas lines with Patrick Construction, I work on my family's dry wheat farm, as well as child caretaking and medical volunteering experience. I have experience riding and performing ranch chores and i look forward to gaining new experience as well. I would be more than interested to hear from anyone with a ranch position available. I will be happy to send you my formal credentials as well.

-- Ashley Marie Toner (ashley_toner@hotmail.com), November 07, 2001

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Hello Ashley, My wife and I and our three kids live on a budding organic farm, we have 38 acres. We raise Icelandic sheep, 30 head, have 6 horses, 3 of which are percheron draft horses which I use for sleigh rides, hay rides, cultivating crops, baling hay, riding etc. We will also be adding more hens to our laying flock and will be raising meat chickens, pigs, turkeys and geese in the spring for a fall harvest. We operate a very small CSA (community supported agriculture) Vegtetable patch, 1 acre. There will be fence to be made and lots of work to be done. We offer your own private apartment with all the amenities and would be very flexible with work schedule. All of your food would be provided off the farm; grains, fruits and vegetables, dairy products and meat. We could also agree upon a small weekly stipend so you would have a little spending cash. My father and his wife also live in their own house on the same property. It is a very beautiful place located in the Checuamegon National Forest. Let me know if you would like to know more.

-- Calvin Kalmon (calvin@dwave.net), November 08, 2001.

I'm a couple hundred miles south of you. Two possibilities for you next summer, working for women on two different ranches. Email me please.

-- susan norfolk/wy (susan_norfolk@yahoo.com), November 08, 2001.