Freedom Farms Emergency Services Foundation · Utah
We are bringing neighbors, agencies, builders and partners together for the people who answer the call. A working place to train, care for animals, share a meal, find purpose and come back to one another.
For those who serve · Built by those who care
A community-built place for training, recovery, working land and the connections that hold people together.
Firefighters, EMTs, law enforcement officers, dispatchers, corrections personnel, veterans and their families carry more than most people see. Rural communities and animals face emergencies that demand preparation before help arrives.
Freedom Farms brings people with different skills to the same table. Agencies shape training. Farmers and animal professionals strengthen readiness. Builders make the place real. Neighbors make sure those who serve have somewhere to belong.
Freedom Farms began with firsthand fire service and rural response experience. Founder Jeff Clark served about ten years as a firefighter/EMT and has spent nearly 30 years building. The lasting lesson is shared across every crew: know your job, show up and take care of the people beside you.
What started as a father and son's conversation about a place for firefighters, EMTs, veterans and families grew into something the wider community can build together: practical training, room to reset and useful work that gives people a reason to return.
Multiple firefighters in our mutual-aid community died by suicide, including Jeff's chief. Those losses made the need unmistakable. We want to help people prepare before the call, stand beside communities during it and give responders, veterans and families a real way back to connection afterward.
Emergency training builds readiness. FFEART gives animals a way out. Agriculture, construction and skilled work create purpose. The Hot Spot, peer support and specialty dinners bring people back to the table. Veterans and young people find meaningful ways to contribute. These are not separate projects. Together, they are Freedom Farms.
Freedom Farms should be a place people look forward to coming back to—hands-on training, horses and livestock, the Western training town, meals in the mess hall, specialty dinners, live music, the stage and the Dust Bowl Ball under the Utah sky. People learn better, reconnect easier and build lasting relationships when the experience gives them something worth remembering.
We can build the place they have needed, together.
Freedom Farms · A community missionNot four separate ideas. One working system built around the people, animals and communities that cannot afford to wait until disaster arrives.
Fire, EMS, law enforcement and wildland agencies training together to build judgment, repetition and trust before the call comes.
Evacuation, containment, sheltering and reunification capability built for livestock, equines and companion animals.
Peer connection and decompression for responders, dispatchers, veterans and families—before stress becomes isolation.
Hands-on paths through agriculture, construction, equipment, skilled trades, mentoring and public service.
The Hot Spot
You should not have to reach a breaking point before there is somewhere to go. The Hot Spot is where responders, dispatchers, veterans, emergency workers and families can step away from the noise and be around people who understand.
No performance. No pressure. No explanation owed.
Sit with people who understand the weight without demanding every detail.
Specialty dinners make one good meal and one shared table the reason to arrive, slow down and reconnect.
Animals, land, useful work and quiet away from alarms, fluorescent rooms and the pressure to say you are fine.
Leaving the shift or leaving the military does not always mean leaving the weight behind. The Hot Spot is meant to offer connection, useful work and a place to belong without turning people into a diagnosis.
Take care of the people who take care of everyone else.
The Hot Spot is a peer-support and resiliency program in development, not clinical treatment.
Agriculture is part of the operating plan
Land, livestock, hay, stored water, reclaimed training water, equipment and capable hands belong in the same readiness system as fire training, animal evacuation and responder support.
Agricultural stewardship, farm safety, planned water storage, reclaimed training water, drought resilience and fire-mitigation work strengthen the ground before an emergency.
Planned hay and feed, panels, troughs, animal-handling equipment and staging space support evacuation, temporary containment and practical training.
Agriculture, equipment, construction and rural systems create hands-on exposure and mentoring paths for veterans, young people and future workers.
The culture of the farm carries into crew meals, specialty dinners and community gatherings—work first, then food, conversation and a reason to stay.
Freedom Farms Emergency Animal Response Team
Animals cannot evacuate themselves. FFEART is the portable, incident-command-compatible resource being built to help agencies move, contain, shelter, identify and reunite them when disaster strikes.
The work in the field
First service focusTooele CountyRegional reach grows with training, agreements and capacity.
Already moving
Freedom Farms has defined the response mission, built an itemized portable-equipment plan and begun procedures for inventory, maintenance, mobilization, volunteers, animal intake, identification and reunification.
Coordination has started with Utah animal-disaster officials and with veterinary, equine, agricultural, emergency-management, supplier and first-response contacts.
The planned mission fleet
RAM 3500 SRW with a gooseneck livestock trailer, water and defensive equipment for animal transport and a fast first move.
RAM 3500 DRW utility platform with a custom flat-deck trailer planned for roughly six-horse staging, four hay bales, corral panels, troughs, rescue gear, equipment bins and a water skid.
A planned solar-powered regional campus connecting fire, EMS and law enforcement training with veteran support, animal evacuation, agriculture, skilled work and peer connection.
This is not a list of buildings for the sake of having buildings. Every part has a job: give responders a place to repeat difficult work, give veterans practical ways to contribute and mentor, let agencies train together before the real call, support animal operations, and give people somewhere to eat, regroup and reconnect afterward.
A purpose-built training structure where crews can practice hose advancement, search and rescue, ladder work, ventilation, firefighter survival and coordinated interior operations without waiting for a real structure fire.
A separate, proposed 80-foot steel tower for observation and a pulley system to dry hose after training. An enclosed upper area is envisioned for small groups of up to ten, with occasional stargazing as a secondary use. Design and capacity require professional review.
Exterior town shells planned for mass-casualty scenarios and law enforcement scene clearing. The burn tower is separate; the town does not include interior build-outs.
A kitchen and gathering place for crew meals, specialty dinners, briefings and time together after training. Movable solid wall panels are planned so partners can adapt the room for exercises and coordination.
A planned shell for animal handling, evacuation and containment practice with responders, volunteers, agricultural partners and veterinary professionals. Interior build-outs are outside the current arena scope.
The performance and gathering space for the Dust Bowl Ball, live country music, late-night acoustic sets, community events and specialty gatherings—the place the mission becomes something people can feel together.
Drive-through bays for response equipment, plus classrooms, instructor and report space, gear wash and decontamination, showers and limited overnight quarters for training and extended operations.
Open training ground and an emergency-vehicle-operations course for apparatus placement, driving, rural access, equipment deployment and multi-company exercises.
A helicopter landing area and room for rope, terrain and aviation-incident training connect the campus to the realities of rural response.
Planned water storage supports rural readiness and repeated drills. Water used in training can be captured, reclaimed and returned for future exercises where appropriate—reducing waste while crews keep building skill.
The entire Freedom Farms campus is planned to run on solar power, supported by battery storage and backup capability. That working system also gives responders a place to train on shutdown, isolation, electrical hazards, battery fire behavior and safe emergency access.
Training named in the campus plan
The campus advances in practical stages. Each operating program, training relationship and confirmed partnership helps the next piece fall into place.
The campus plan grows from real fireground training, apparatus work, rural water supply, aviation coordination and rope-rescue experience.
The Dust Bowl Ball · Where the sirens go quiet
A Western concert and overnight campout designed to make Freedom Farms feel real before the permanent gates ever open.
Live country music. Late-night acoustic sets. Tents under the Utah sky. A next-morning pancake breakfast. Veterans, active military members, responders, farmers, families, builders and neighbors—not a black-tie gala, just a real gathering where service and community stand side by side.
Tooele County / Utah West Desert · Building the right site and event relationships
More than a logo on a truck
The right partner brings a lane: knowledge, equipment, skilled people, materials, an introduction or financial support. Every contribution connects to something people can see, use and trust.
Specialty dinners, peer connection and a place for responders and veterans to reset.
Animal-handling systems, portable equipment, training and field logistics.
Hands-on paths into agriculture, construction, equipment, skilled work and public service.
Tow, transport, water, utility and mobile-response capability.
Site, civil, steel, energy, communications, water and resilient infrastructure.
Stage, sound, lighting, camping, food and authentic Western hospitality.
Do not sponsor a promise. Help build a piece that works.
Find your place in itEstablished
Utah nonprofitIncorporated June 18, 2026Built
Administrative groundworkEarly organizational and program planning; federal tax exemption work remains underwayUnderway
Operating plansFFEART procedures, equipment planning and partner conversationsServing land. Livestock. Community. And country.
Responders. Veterans. Farmers. Animal professionals. Builders. Teachers. Tradespeople. Neighbors. Freedom Farms becomes real when the right people recognize their part in it.
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