Description
Features:
- Pros and Cons of Driving with a Foal: There are advantages and disadvantages of bringing foals alongside their working mares. Donn takes us through the process month-by-month, from age 1 month to 6 months.
- What’s the Best Horse: Taylor Johnson takes us through the process of evaluating what kind/breed of horse is best for you and your operation.
- Donkey Training Equipment and Commands: Bob Erickson goes over essential equipment for training like rope, halter bridle, a hitching rail and tethering stake. He covers getting a donkey to “go,” training on the lead rope and handling feet and ears.
- A Gathering of Gatherings: by Rob Collins. Members of the Association of Living History Farms and Agricultural Museums visited the Midwest Ox Drovers Association 2023 Gathering, which took place at Tillers Internation in Scotts, Mich. The event included hands on learning with oxen.
- The Time is Right, Right Now: Ralph Rice talks about the changes in rural, farming communities over the last century and how more and more people are interested in learning the ways of the past.
- Soil Health Road Trip: Jenifer Morrissey talks about the components of healthy soil, concentrating on Nicole Masters’ book, “For the Love of Soil.” Masters’ proposed that the five key elements for healthy soil are sun, air, water, microbes and mineral availability.
- Tales from Carter County: The Game Warden: Jerry Hicks when caught red-handed by a game warden, Jerry invents a tall tale to beat the rap.
- Farm Restoration: Valerie Kirkwood chronicles the restoration of Glen Elbe Farm in Eastern Ontario. Valerie got a tour of the house, stable, gardens, arboretum and more.
- Competing Farriers: Valerie Kirkwood covers all the action from the Ontario Farrier’s Convention horseshoeing competition that took place last September in Eastern Ontario.
- Carl and Esther Tange: Philip Henderson shares memories of an old Danish farming couple he met as a younger man. The Tanges grew wheat in Montana during the Great Depression.
- Homeplace Plow Day: Pictures from the 2024 Spring Plow Day at Homeplace on Green River in Campbellsville, Kent.
