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Features:

• Start Skidding Logs: Donn Hewesoffers guidelines for beginning teamsters on how to haul logs. Teaching your draft animal to haul logs can be a great next step if you are doing well driving and/or your horse is dragging things.
• Donkey Training, Commands and Harness: Bob Ericksonconcludes his three-part donkey training series by going over a variety of commands – standing turn right and left, back, whoa stand, and more – as well has giving detailed descriptions and advice on harness
• Regenerative Agriculture: Promise, Practice and Proof: Jenifer Morrissey discusses the direct link between plant health and human health – and strategies to grow the highest quality foods.
• Ohio Suffolk Gathering: Ralph Rice reports on the recent Ohio Regional Suffolk Gathering and how such get-togethers can help further the people’s interest in draft animal farming.
• Ginseng: Jerry Hicks recalls a time when he became interested in harvesting wild ginseng and then in cultivating this interesting plan.
• A Hard Winter on the Plains: Horse Power on the Ice: Dick Courteau recounts the harsh winter of 193-84 on the Great Plains when he turned to splitting firewood and selling it in order to make ends meet.
• 2024 Horse Progress Days: Forecarts, Powercarts & More: Photos and descriptions of some of the equipment on display at Horse Progress Days, which took place in Gordonville, Penn., this year.  Includes a vendor list.
• The Hewitt Hay Press: Joe Mischka describes of the Hewitt Hay Press and the Switzerland County (Ind.) Historical Society, which restored  and demonstrates this press at the Thiebaud Farmstead outside of Vevay, Ind.
• Rural Bookshelf: Profoundly Country: Rural Heritage reviews Dick Courteau’s collection of stories about his many pursuits and adventures over the years: “Profoundly Country: Memories and Meditations of an Old Farmer/Cowboy.”