Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["McBride & Putnam" <dragonhill2@netzero.net>]

We're among those who think horses will again play a roll in the future of 
small farms.  We just added a Belgian draft horse to the staff and we are 
already sold on this form of power.  There's a partnership with a horse that 
you'll never have with a tractor and if the work doesn't go as fast, you 
hear more of the world around you.  You're back closer to the land again and 
that can never be a bad thing.  And a tractor won't put a huge head down and 
lean against your chest to share a moment of satisfaction that the job is 
finished.

Claudia


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 11:42 AM
Subject: [Livingontheland] Thanksgiving Horse-drawn Hayrides


> 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
> ------------------------------------------
>
> 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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