“I thought it’d be a big project, but I have a great family that’d help me,” Zac says. And it needed to have easy access for the owners so they could clean the interior. It needed to keep the pigs warm and protect them from the elements. To house both animals, the pig house would need to be a 4-by-4-by-4-foot shelter. He had experience working with tools he had helped build a treehouse before, and he had earned the Home Repairs merit badge. Zac talked with the farm’s owners about the need for a pig house. For the Eagle rank, a Scout must plan, develop and give leadership to a project. “They said, ‘Our pigs need a place to stay warm for the winter.’ They had been staying in an outdoor pen.”įor the Scouts BSA ranks of Tenderfoot through Life, Scouts must participate in service projects. “We had been looking for an opportunity for a Star Scout project,” Zac says. 2 in Spring Lake, N.J., who had started volunteering in the farm’s petting zoo, wanted to help. The 12-year-old First Class Scout with Troop 31, sponsored by Goodwill Fire Co. Two animals that were adopted last summer - Charlotte and Willow, a pair of Juliana pigs - needed a winter home. The community farm in Wall Township, N.J., offers equine and animal therapy, using horses, goats, cattle, donkeys and pigs. “The farm is a nonprofit that works with kids and adults that have disorders, kids who have gone through trauma and veterans who have PTSD,” Zac says. When he first visited the Allaire Community Farm with his grandmother a few years ago, Zac Clifton fell in love with it.
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