Description
Features:
- New Steps in Training: Ralph Rice describes how he restored an Athens treadmill to use in exercising and training his horses as well as to power equipment around the farm;
- How Ya Gonna Keep’em Down on the Farm?: Dick Courteau discusses the transition from real “horse” power on the farm to motor vehicles and the changes this brought to rural life;
- We Are All Needed: Jenifer Morrissey provides in-depth information on how people are dealing with the rapid changes in agriculture and making a difference, one person at a time. Farmers share how they have adapted their operations to deal with climate volatility, food insecurity and rural flight;
- Training Diversity on a Small Homestead: Ralph Rice shares his idea to use pastureland to create a “work area” for training and using his horses. He also talks about continuing to adapt how he uses his acreage to suit his changing needs;
- 2023 USA Plowing Contest: Results and pictures from the 2023 USA Plowing contest that took place in in Olympia, Kent.;
- Bark Whistle: Jerry Hicks describes his grandfather’s lesson on how to make a bark whistle … and where the phrase “wet your whistle” comes from;
- Chipping Away at an Old Subject: Ralph Rice describes how a chance offer of extra manure from a friend led to the discovery that combining woodchips and wet manure to helped extend the amount of compost he had available;
- HPD Equipment: Mowers, Hay Equipment, Planting Equipment, Sprayers, Produce Equipment and Power Lift Unit Carts; Using Pack Animals Around Your Small Farm or Homestead: Dick Courteau describes how he has used donkeys, ponies and mules as pack animals to get work done around the farm;
- 2023 Suffolk Punch Gathering: A brief report and results of competion at the 2023 Suffolk Punch Gathering at the Foothills Equestiran Center in Taylorsville, N.C.
