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Articles in this issue:
- Starting Over, Part 6, After spending their first winter at their new homestead, the Londrigan family emerges from “survival mode” and starts planning for the future.
- It Won’t Work Here Jenifer Morrissey takes a look at how perseverance and a positive mindset have very concrete impacts on the success of regenerative farming.
- International Plowing Match 2022, Valerie Kirkwood describes how the Ontario (Canada) Plowman’s Club was able to hold its International Plowing Match and Rural Expo after two year’s delay.
- A Tale of a Young Man, Philip Henderson tells the story of Gerardo Altamirano, who moved from Oaxaca, Mexico, to the United States and, through a series of apprenticeships, became a master oxen teamster.
- Bozeman Trail Completed, by Jenifer Morrissey.The final installment recounting the historic 2001 re-enactment of the Bozeman Trail ride describes the final days of the ride and the introspections of the riders and teamsters who took the epic journey.
- Back to the Land: Ralph Rice outlines his assertion that the back-to-the-land and regenerative agriculture movements are gaining ground and attracting new participants.
- Threshing Days: Valerie Kirkwood describes how the Leeds County (Canada) Draft Horse Club, persevered through pandemic restrictions from 2020 to 2022 to hold their annual threshing days — in some shape or form!
- Be a Ripple in Someone’s Pond: Ralph Rice describes a recent visit to his farm by a group of school children and how other small farmers and draft animal farmers can sow the seeds for future generations to be involved in the land.
- Keep’em off Your Heel: Dick Cousteau describes an easy trick for using a switch to keep equines from crowding your heels when you are leading them.
- Trail of Fools: Part 2 of Jerry Hicks’ tale of how he got even with a law firm that misled him about having to testify in a shoplifting case when he was a security guard at a big box store.
