First Rain Farm

05/22/2026

05/20/2026

Join us this Saturday for another morning of goat cuddles and being in nature! 19832 Rector Rd. Nevada City, $5/person

05/16/2026

Baby goat u-pet this Sunday 5/17 9am-11am! It’s seriously so cute here right now with over 50 baby goats at the barn right now. Join us for an early morning cuddle sesh. You don’t need to be a kid to join btw. $5/person 19832 Rector Rd. Nevada City

05/11/2026

Join us this Wednesday for some goat cuddles! $5/person from 3pm-5pm. More details at www.firstrainfarm.com

05/07/2026

Join us Sunday May 10th 2-4pm for our first baby goat u-pet of the season! $5/person. For future u-pets please go to our website at www.firstrainfarm.com and add your email at the bottom of any page.

03/11/2026

The first beds are being prepped and sugar snap peas will be going in very soon! 🌱

02/14/2026

We are looking for 2 part-time to full-time employees, starting end of May through the fall. We are hoping to find hard-working, fun, dedicated and reliable people that want to be included in a diverse, local organic farm experience!

Requirements:

🥕RELIABLE- must be capable of showing up on time consistently

🌞Able to handle the heat and cold- we work rain or shine, and on the hottest days of summer!

🫜Previous farm experience- preferred, but not necessary depending on other skill sets and work history

🥬Able to work in a variety of positions (crouching, bending down, etc.)

🍓Able to maintain pace with current farm workers (ie., during harvest, raking, composting, etc.)

🫐Able to comfortably lift 40 #

Schedule:

-Starting end of May- end of September or October, depending on the position

-Availability: 3-4 days a week, 8 hours a day, plus 2 farmer’s markets a month on Saturdays (could be more markets if interested)

-Work Days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday for field work with possibility to add on more during busy season, plus market Saturdays

Wage:
-Pay starting at $17/hr

Perks:
-Produce for yourself harvested on your own time
-Produce to trade with other members of communiity for services (ie, acupuncture, massage, etc.)
-Market leftovers in cooler
-Farmer’s market trade with other vendors

For more details:

E-mail [email protected]

10/15/2025

First Rain Farm and Land Stewardship Services is partnering with the Yuba Watershed Institute and the Bureau of Land Management on a unique targeted grazing project on Round Mountain Recreation Area, just outside of Nevada City, CA.

Beginning in October 2025, we will be using our goat herd with over 200 animals to maintain a strategically important fuel break for the community. A shaded fuel break is an area that has a mature overstory canopy, but has an open and accessible understory. Typically, shaded fuel breaks are created along strategically important access roads and provide opportunities for fire containment in the event of a wildfire.

To learn more and donate towards our efforts, please visit https://gofund.me/332cde220 or click on the link in our profile

10/14/2025

Happy second rain everybody! The First Rain has been verified- seeds are germinating and life has returned to the soil. Our goats are enjoying their barn tonight after nearly five months away! For the next ten days we will be grazing them on our home property and bedding them in the barn nightly, rapidly creating a nitrogen rich bedding which will get composted and used on our fields next growing season. Next stop for the goats will be Round Mountain! Stay tuned for updates on this project later this week!