Description

Features:

• A Simple Flat Wagon Build: Donn Hewes provides instructions on building a hay wagon from the running gear up.
• Training Duke, Part  2: Donn Hewes restarts his training with Duke after he’d healed from his injury (reported in last issue). Duke is harnessed and hooked in a team for the first time, first to a stone boat and then to a wheeled vehicle.
• Sanborn Mills Workshop: Mary Osmer reviews her time spent at an Oxen workshop at Sanborn Mills in Loudon, N.H., where she spent time with her own young team, Joe and Mack, and worked with some other working steers at the farm and provides a primer on commands for driving an oxen team.
• Tales from Carter County: Jerry Hicks tells the story of a group of boys, a horse, bathtub and winter day.
• The End of an Era: Ralph Rice of Jefferson, Ohio, looks back on his 40+ years working horses, acknowledging he has become one of the “old guys,” and remarking on how the work horse landscape has changed, now incorporating more draft animal powered homesteaders.
• Heritage Beef and Nutrient Density: Jenifer Morrissey explains why meat from heritage livestock can often taste better and provide better nutrition than their more modern counterparts.
• A Photo Tells a Story: Steve Haste looks back fondly to the time his great-grandfather used and traded mules.
• Seeds and Soil for Life and Health: Jenifer Morrissey teaches us about how plants are uniquely attuned to their location and provide tailored nutrition to people living nearby.
• Chickens for Fun & Profit … or Not: Karen Kirsch takes a trip down memory land with her time spent raising chickens and her favorite bird, Gladys.
• A Teamster’s Suggestions: Experienced horseman and teamster, Ralph Rice shares a few tips he’s learned including how to avoid a an accident in the horse trailer and how to help horses learn to work together.
• Boniface Okumu: Anna Knapp-Peck tells the story of Boniface Okumu, an Ugandan who has begun a nonprofit in his home country to train people to use and care for oxen.
• Top Hat Carriage: We spend some time with Tim and Doreen Carroll of Ely, Minn. They have been operating a carriage service in Duluth for the last several years.
• Ground Driving Basics: Dick Courteau explains how he likes to start a horse ground driving.
• Lightroot Farm and Learning Center: Cameron Genter and Daphney Kingsley operate Light Root Farm where they provide outreach to a variety of deserving clients.
• Draft Animal Power Network: Anna Knapp-Peck introduces us to the important work the Draft Animal Power Network has done over the years and introduces us to some of the board members.