For Windermere Real Estate, a day of service is one of the most important things the company can do for its community.

So when 45 employees of the Bellevue office came to Kelsey Creek Farm on June 3, they had a warm day of work ahead of them on a sunny Friday.

Dick Brown, a broker at the office and organizer of the volunteer day, said Kelsey Creek Farm was a favorite of that group.

Don Deasy brought Windermere from Seattle to Bellevue, and after his death in 2007 a stone bench was erected in the park overlooking some of the animal pens and rolling fields.

“Now Don’s three adult children run the business,” Brown said. “And we come back here every couple of years.”

Work included cleaning rabbit hutches, weeding the gardens, painting the fence and adding stenciled foot prints which will lead families to the corresponding animals.

D’Ann Jackson, head broker of the office, said she appreciates the chance to get out of the office.

“I could do this all day,” she said. “I have six acres so this is a piece of cake.”

Windermere has been volunteering its time on that one day for years. The real estate company operates in eight western states and all but Hawaii and Arizona use a Friday in June as an opportunity to get out and help the community (the two outlier states do it in the fall to prevent heat stroke).

The Bellevue office has been to Kelsey Creek Farm several times before, as well as Jubilee REACH and the Evergreen Court retirement community.

“We like to switch it up every year,” Brown said. “We actually get so much done on this day, we don’t need to come back for a few years.”

Sponsors of the event provided supplies and support and included Sherwin Williams, Sign Pros, Tully’s, Inspection Services Northwest and Penrith Home Loans.