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Stories in this issue: 

• Income Diversification – Part 2 Service for Success: Danielle Londrigan and her family continue their discussion about diversifying your farm income stream. They write about adding educational events and services that share your knowledge, travel and vacation services, equine and draft power services, and more.
• Moats and Swales: Anne and Eric Nordell explain how they prevent erosion along the perimeter of their fields using various methods and cover crops.
• Getting Started Logging:  A regular contributor, Taylor Johnson explains how he got started logging and tips on how to be successful at this job. He encourages starting out slowly and talking to other loggers who can share their experiences. logging with horses, horse logging
• Sourdough for Beginners: Hazel Freeman takes us step-by-step through the newly popular process of making sourdough bread from scratch. This is a very thorough DIY article
• Sourdough Pancakes: Using the discard starter from your sourdough breadmaking, you can make these delicious pancakes for your family. baking, cooking, bread baking
• 40th Annual Field Day – North Dakota DH Association: Over 20 teams of draft horses turned out for this annual event. Teamsters and teams pulled wagons, plows, disc harrows, corn planters, grain drills and more.
• Draft Horse Tie Stalls: Realizing he needed smaller stalls for his Suffolk draft horses, Ralph Rice shows how to build tie stalls in your barn to custom fit your particular breed of horse.
• Milkweed and Monarchs: Another wonderful story from Jerry Hicks. He tells of his dilemma upon encountering milkweed near his tobacco field. He sure knows how to paint a picture with his words.
• One-Horse Haymaking: Leroy Keim, a 71 year old farmer, tells us how he cut, raked, hauled and transfered five acres of hay using one draft horse, a McCormick No. 9 mower, hand hay rakes and a horse drawn wagon.
• Profitibility at Orchard Hill Farm: Jenifer Morrissey highlights the Laings, who share the many different ways they have used to develop their successful CSA farm over the years. These include: finding the right type of farming, complimentary skills sets, maximize horse use, utilize apprentices, willing to experiment, supplemental income and cultivating networks.
• Lockdowns and Fairs in 1920: Jenifer Morissey’s great-grand parents lived in southern California and Oregon during their later years. Here Jenifer gives us a look at the 1920’s including many fairs and parades. As always, Dan’s diary details and Jenifer’s writing give us a wonderful look into the past – sometimes looking an awful lot like the present.
• Five Minutes with…Thomas Philbrick – Oxen Teamster: Rob Collins talks to Thomas Philbrick, who started with oxen in 4-H at nine years old. Rob Collins interviews him about his life with oxen, training, competing and working on the farm with them year round. Thomas explains how his work with oxen is such an important part of who he is.