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| Oct. 4 | Horsetail Herb Farm Episode 1: Preparing the Seedbed. Becky Frye operates Horsetail Herb Farm with her partner, Corey McNaughton, in Marathon, N.Y., where they raise medicinal and culinary herbs to sell wholesale to customers who use them in making their own products to sell. In this video, Becky explains some of aspects of the business and shapes a seedbed for transplanting seedlings she’s been growing in her high tunnel greenhouse. | |
| Oct. 5 | Horsetail Herb Farm Episode 2: Planting and Starting Harvest. In this episode of Horsetail Herb Farm, Becky Frye shows how some transplants are put into the garden and how she has begun harvesting some herbs and started to dry them. | |
| Oct. 6 | Horsetail Herb Farm Episode 3: Harvesting & Drying. Becky Frye of Horsetail Herb Farm in Marathon, N.Y., harvests more herbs and puts them in drying racks so they can be later sold to wholesale customers. | |
| Oct. 7 | Horsetail Herb Farm Episode 4: Garbling & Flower Arranging. In this final episode of Horsetail Herb Farm, Becky Frye shows us how the herb leaves are separated from the stems and rendered into a fine tea through garbling. She also makes an arrangement of cut flowers she grows. | |
| Oct. 7 | Build a Scoot in a Day Part 1: Choosing & Harnessing the Horse. Donn Hewes  needed to bring a narrow scoot to the recent DAPnet Field Days that could carry a couple of tons of weight. In this first episode, Donn harnesses his young gelding Duke and talks about why he chose Duke for the job of pulling logs out of the woods and how this kind of work continues his training. | |
| Oct. 8 | A Scoot in a Day 2: Skidding Logs & Building a Scoot. Donn Hewes takes his gelding, Duke into the woods to pull out two logs to be used as runners for the scoot he was building to be used to test two different logging arches at DAPNet’s Draft Animal Field Days in Shelburne, Vermont. | |
| Oct. 9 | Testing the First Logging Cart – Build a Scoot in a Day Part 3. Donn Hewes uses his newly-built scoot to demonstrate the strengths of the Fisher-design cart at the Draft Animal Power Days in Vermont. | |
| Oct. 10 | Testing the First Logging Cart – Build a Scoot in a Day Part 4. Donn Hewes uses his newly-built scoot to demonstrate the strengths of the his home-built and designed cart at the Draft Animal Power Days in Vermont. | |
| Oct. 11 | Driving Horses without Lines and Oxen without Goads. At the 2026 Draft Animal Field Days at Shelburne Farm in Vermont, Daphné Rose Courtès and Ray Ramsey demonstrate driving without lines, in the case of Daphné with her horse, and driving without a goad, in the case of Ray with his team of steers. | |
| Oct. 18 | Jason Hubbard and his oxen skid logs. Jason Hubbard and his oxen team, Chain and Tug, pull logs from a fence line using a spider breeching. Then his daughter, Rylee, hooks her steer, Junior, single with a breeching style harness to pull a log for demonstration purposes. | |
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Oct. 25
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Sounds of Abe and Ty Moore working in his garden. No Music or Narration. Just Sounds of Ty talking to his horses and of the equipment working the soil. | |
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Oct. 27
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2026 US Plowing Contest. Teamsters gathered in Olympia, Ky., Saturday, Oct 24, to compete in the 2026 Plowing Contest hosted by Joyce Downs. Here’s a look at some of the contestants with unedited sound. I enjoyed visiting with everyone there, which is one of the reasons my audio didn’t come out as well as it might have if I weren’t talking to folks while shooting. | |
| Nov. 1 | DeKalb County Horsemen’s Fall Fest. Members of the DeKalb County Horsemen’s Association hosted their third annual Fall Fest where third graders from the county learn about draft animals, heritage skills and how our ancestors lived a hundred or more years ago. |