Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

OK, they're in Vermont, says so right on the website. Duh.

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On 11/18/2007 at 10:42 AM TradingPostPaul wrote:

>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
>
>
>
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