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Features:
- Shop Made Hoof Picks: by Pete Cecil. The importance of using hoof picks to clean a horse’s feet, and ways to fabricate your own
- Woodland Management: Using a Farmstead Approach: Ralph Rice discusses his approach to managing the 33 acres of woodlot on his land: maximizing maple syrup production, conservation and wildlife management and timber production.
- Training for Safety: The First Drive: by Margaret Beeman with Ona Kiser. The steps to hitching your horse, walking, making gradual turns, and then actually driving your horse. https://ruralheritage2.com/product/training-for-safety/
- Reel Oxen Training: by Rob Collins. Using a three-gang reel type mower as a training aid for oxen
- Getting Started Using Draft Horses – Part 2: Will Beattie, of Ellijay, Ga., continues his journey using draft horses … with the help of Front Porch posters and expert Tommy Flowers.
- Beekeeping for Beginners: by Hazel Freeman. “For Beekeeping Succss, Learn How to Prepare For and Care For Your Bee Colonies.” A primer for getting into beekeeping: Where to Being, How and When to Get Bees, Nucleus Hive, Before the Bees Arrive, Hive Locations and Stands, Learning Season
- Good Farming Apprenticeship Network: A listing of internships across the United States and Canada for novice teamsters wanting to learn about working with draft animals
- 2010 Ohio & US Plowing Contests: by Sam Moore. Results from the 2010 Ohio State Plowing Contest and the U.S. Plowing Contest, held at Carriage Hill Farm in Huber Heights, Ohio
- Nasal Control: by Mark Fumic. A discussion of the use of nasal control for oxen — still prevalent in Asia. Descriptions of: Nose-to-Nose Nasal Control, Four-Line Control, Two-line Control, Nose Ropes, Nose Rings, Working Cattle with Nasal Control, and Disadvantages
- Starting a Draft Horse Club: by Lynne Howe. “If You Are Crazy Enough to Want to.” The steps to forming a club, including: finding members, forming a committee to research and write bylaws, deciding how meeting will be structured, hosting events, and electing officers
