Description

Features:

• Hooking and Unhooking Safely: Donn Hewes goes over the steps he uses to hook a team safely to a farm implement and later, to unhook them safely.
• Calf Training – Halters or Collars: Rob Collins discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using halters or collars for training calves.
• Moving Toward a More Perennial Agriculture: Jenifer Morrissey writes about the shift in landscaping and agriculture toward permaculture.
• Truly American Donkeys – American Mammoth Jackstock: Les O’Dell of the Livestock Conversancy writes about the development of the American Mammoth Jack donkey.
• Ivy Pagliari: Anna Knapp-Peck writes about Ivy Pagliari and her experience working with cattle.
• Start with a Good Foundation: Cameron Howard writes about a clinic he held with Ben Burgess and Moriah Bilenky at his home in Corydon, Ind.
• The Un-forgotten Farmers of the Chars – Part 2: Paul Schmitt completes his story about the Chars farmers in the Bangladesh Delta who are coping with changing climate.
• Eulogy for Old Doc: Jerry Hicks tells the story of an old faithful mule named Doc.
• Tuning Up the McCormick Deering Cultivator: Michael Glos discusses the steps he uses to maintain a McCormick Deering Cultivator.
• Multi-use Tools and Tips: Ralph Rice writes about the Reese hitch he attached to his forecart and the various tools he uses with it.
• Draft Animal Power Network: Anna Knapp-Peck writes about training an older animal.
• Mini Nubians to the Rescue: Chiara Dowell explains the advantages of raising Mini Nubians goats.
• Brewington Plow Day: Mike Brewington hosts a plow day where folks turned over good ground with teams of crossbreds, Belgians, Percherons and mules.
• Bryan Moon Plow Day: Bryan Moon and family host a plow day at their Chilhowee, Mo.
• Lyndon Farm Team Competition: Teamsters compete in a variety of challenges to measure their abilities in Lyndon, Kan.