The Benefits of Fostering a Codman Farm Animal – Enjoy educational benefits while helping to pay for the care of CCF’s animals!

• Stewardship: Enjoy knowing that your participation is helping pay for the care of our heritage farm animals.  The animals will continue to live at CCF.
• Family-friendly Volunteering: If interested, each family can spend a couple of hours  helping the farmer care for their animal.
• Animal Educational Workshops: Animal-specific workshops will teach foster families about their animal’s habits and needs.
• Connect with an Animal: Foster families are encouraged to name their animal, write stories, draw pictures, take photographs, contribute to the farm blog and more.
• Public Recognition: A “foster family” board in the main barn will include photographs of foster families and “their” animal.  Lincoln Journal articles will feature foster families.
• Local Eating: It feels great to buy and eat local food.  Now you can help raise it.

How to Support our Animals

The price to foster an animal varies by breed, based on how long they live at the farm, and how expensive they are to raise.  This is the cost for one year of fostering.

Cows……………………………………………………..$600

Breeding Sows……………………………………….$1,000

Boar……………………………………………………..$1,000

Sheep……………………………………………………$350

Turkey Tom……………………………………………$350

Guinea Fowl (family of 5)………………………….$200

Chickens (1 doz.)…………………………………….$200/doz

Farm Family (cow, pig, 12 hens, sheep)……..$1500

If you are interested in an animal that is not raised for meat:

Herman the Water Buffalo………………………..$5000

The Rabbit Family ………………………………….$2000

To pick your animal, email codmanfarm@comcast.net and we’ll set up a time for you to choose your animal, and take a photo!