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A Big Hitch in a Small Country - People/Events - Small Farmer's Journal
by Daphne Turner of Ovingdean, UK photographs by David Baker of Ovingdean, UK In the south of England we have a society, The Southern Counties Heavy Horse Association, formed to keep alive the traditions of heavy draught horse use in agriculture with particular reference to ploughing. Twice a year it holds Working Days open to the general public when members get together to demonstrate the various procedures necessary for preparing the seed bed for cereals.
Apple Cider, Autumn’s Nectar
I have often thought that I would not care to live where seasons do not change. My mind and body seem geared to our climate; the reawakening of spring, the blossoming of summer, the ripeness of autumn, the expectancy of winter. This past fall season has been a particularly beautiful one in our country-side of south eastern Quebec. We were blessed with day after day of warm sunshine.
Small Farmer's Journal
Hoof nurture comprises all those measures which are employed to keep hoofs healthy, elastic, and serviceable. The care of the hoofs of colts is of special importance. Abundant exercise upon dry ground which is not too stony is most beneficial. Such exercise will cause the hoofs to wear gradually, and it will only be necessary from time to time to observe whether the wear is taking place uniformly, and if not, to correct the uneven wear with the rasp.
Small Farmer's Journal
by Daphne Turner of Ovingdean, UK photographs by David Baker of Ovindean, UK I don’t know how it is in other countries but in England where most heavy draught horses are kept for leisure pursuits, getting that first horse is just the initial step on a long journey of acquiring a multitude of accessories. After getting the horse comes the harness and then some object to pull.
Determining the Age of Farm Animals by their Teeth
U. S. Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletin No. 1721, March 1934 by George W. Pope, chief, Field Inspection Division, Bureau of Animal Industry Importance of Determining the Age of Farm Animals The productive life of farm animals is comparatively brief, the height of their usefulness being limited to a few years. For this reason the returns from livestock tend to decrease with advanced years.
Plowing with the Single Horse
Plowing with the Single Horse Plowing with the Single Horse by Lynn R. Miller of Singing Horse Ranch “Horsedrawn Plows and plowing” is back in print! Today’s article, “Plowing with the Single Horse,” is an excerpt from Chapter 3, “Walking Plows.” Click here to order. All other aspects being equal, the primary difference in plowing, comfortably, with a single horse is that the animal walks on unplowed ground immediately adjacent to the previous furrow, rather than in the furrow.
A Step Back in Time with the Barron Tree Planter
by Daphne Turner of Brighton, Sussex, England photographs by David Baker Today the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew, West London, England, is a world leader in the collection and scientific investigation of every type of plant, and open to a public who appreciate its open spaces, temperate and hot houses exhibiting plants from every kind of climate and its variety of outdoor features, but its beginnings in 1759 as a private garden for Princess Augusta were far more exclusive.
The Craft of the Wheelwright
by Daphne Turner of Ovingdean, UK photographs by David Baker of Ovingdean, UK In these days of standardization and the extensive use of metal wheels you might think there is little call for the centuries old craft of wheelwrighting, but the many demands on the skills of Gus Kitson in Suffolk, England, show this to be very far from the truth.
Expanding the Use of the Heavy Draught Horse in Europe
by Daphne Turner and David Baker photographs by Daphne Turner and David Baker and Gary Crisp The fortunes of the heavy draught horse over the last 50 years have been very different in North America to those in Great Britain, as was borne home to us very forcibly when we visited the Progress Days in Indiana in 2000. There we saw numbers of draught horses and modern methods of using them which are simply unknown in Britain.
Small Farmer's Journal
Collecting rainwater for use during dry months is an ancient practice that has never lost its value. Today, simple water collection systems made from recycled food barrels can mean a free source of non-potable water for plants, gardens, bird baths, and many other uses. Rainwater is ideal for all plants because it doesn’t contain dissolved minerals or added chemicals. One inch of rain falling on a 1,000 square foot roof yields approximately 600 gallons of water.
Fjordworks: Zen and the Art of Training the Novice Teamster Part 1
by Stephen Leslie with technical assistance and generally sound advice from Kerry Gawalt — both of Cedar Mountain Farm at Cobb Hill co-housing in Hartland, Vermont Before I dreamed of farming with horses I dreamed of becoming a saint. As things have turned out I have had a bit more success in attaining my horse farming dream. I was an art school drop-out, completely disillusioned at the prospect of trying to make a living hustling my oil paint artifacts through the galleries of Easy Street.
A Year of Contract Grazing
In 2009, we added a contract grazing enterprise to our sheep and goat operation. Contract grazing involves the use of livestock to control specific undesirable plants, primarily for ecological restoration and wildfire prevention purposes. Rather than paying landowners for pasture, as we have been doing for the last 5 years, contract grazing generates income.
Words for the Novice Teamster
My favorite childhood memories are of cold winter days spent on my grandpa’s sleigh, feeding cattle. The sound of jingle bells always brings a clear picture to my mind of a hay-laden sleigh being pulled through the pristine-white snowscape by giant workhorses. The jingling of bells and the sound of cattle bawling their hunger was accented by the whoosh of the sleigh’s runners and the steady beat of the horses’ huge hoofs pounding on hard packed snow.
The Milk and Human Kindness: Making Swaledale
Making Swaledale – a simple English farmer’s hard cheese, making sweet cream butter, caring for aging cheeses, making a wooden drain table and a wooden cheese press, washing dairy dishes, and the French coagulation formula. The Tomme – the French farmer’s cheese I wrote about in the last issue is a simple and excellent cheese requiring a minimum of equipment and time.
FREAKS with BEAKS, CUKES that PUKE, & NARY a CONSCIENCE in SIGHT
Monsanto desperately tried to repress a study in the journal FCT (Food and Chemical Toxicology) showing that even low doses of their Roundup herbicide had toxic effects on rats over a long-term study. These effects include serious liver and kidney damage. Apparently Monsanto entered into a contract with the editor of the journal that first published and later retracted the study.
Horsedrawn No-Till Garlic
The 18th century saw a tremendous interest in landscaping private parkland on a grand scale with the movement of entire hills and mature trees, all by man and horse power, to fulfill the designs of celebrated gardeners such as Capability Brown. In the mid 1800s the movement of mature trees was revolutionised by the introduction of the Barron tree transplanter. The first planter was designed and built by Barron for the transplantation of maturing trees at Elvaston Castle in Derbyshire.
Rainshadow Organics: Saralee & the Interns
This information on Planet Jr. two horse equipment is from an old booklet which had been shared with us by Dave McCoy, a horse-logger from our parts: “Think of the saving made in cultivating perfectly two rows of potatoes, beans, corn or any crop planted in rows not over 44 inches apart, at a single passage.
Hay Making with a Single Horse Part 3
For my neighbours, my way of making hay must seem a bit peculiar, not only because much of it is done with a horse, but also at any time I might have hay in a loose stack and some being baled, with some drying on the ground, some on tripods, and occasionally some in cocks.
President’s 2018 budget undercuts rural communities
Center for Rural Affairs says the budget zeroes out programs that address challenges of rural communities Lyons, Neb. – Center for Rural Affairs Policy Associate Anna Johnson said today that President Trump’s 2018 budget does not support rural America and its communities. The budget was released in its final form this morning. “The president’s budget demonstrates President Trump’s lack of understanding and prioritization of the struggles of rural communities,” she said.
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