Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Someone don't know who sent us this, so I'm passing it on. I have no idea
where they are, but it sounds like a great time. I find them at
http://www.fairwindsfarm.org/ . I see they're not no-till, but heck,
nobody's perfect ;-) 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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Fair Winds Farm and Post Oil Solutions offer Thanksgiving Horse-drawn
Hayrides

Fair Winds Farm is offering horse-drawn hayrides on Thanksgiving weekend,
including Thanksgiving Day. Funds from the rides will benefit the efforts
of Post Oil Solutions in building cooperative, sustainable communities. 

Consider bringing your family to enjoy a hay-ride behind this form of power
that is both ancient and a wave of the future. We offer private reserved
rides November 22 (Thanksgiving day), 23 and 24 for your group. Snuggle
down in the hay for a cozy half hour ride through our fields and woods.
Reserved rides are $10 for adults and $6 for kids with a $50 minimum charge
for your group. Call us for reservations: 802-254-9067

On Friday, November 23 non-reserved rides will be offered from 1-4pm. The
ride will be approximately 20 minutes and will take you through fields and
woods while you snuggle down in the hay. Adults $6, Kids $3, no minimum, no
reservation, just come by the farm on Upper Dummerston Road, off Rt 30 just
2 miles from downtown Brattleboro. 

While many people think of horsepower as a power source of the past, it
will likely play a bigger role in a post-carbon future. The popularity of
the farm tractor in the mid 1900's meant that even those who loved working
with horses moved away from this quieter method of farming, leaving
thousands of pieces of equipment to rust along field edges. Rising fuel
prices are just one factor that is making some farmers reconsider horses as
a potential source of power, and many of those old pieces of equipment are
being pulled out of the weeds and put back to work. A sign of the
increasing number of farms utilizing horse power is the growing list of
equipment manufacturers who are designing state of the art horse drawn
equipment for today's farms. There is a huge variety of new plows,
cultivators, haying equipment and multi-purpose vehicles being offered. 

For more information or to reserve your ride please call 802-254-9067 or
visit our website: www.fairwindsfarm.org