Cultivating Questions: Cultivator Set-ups and Deer Fencing
We know all too well the frustration of putting your heart and soul into a crop only to have the wildlife consume it before you can get it harvested let alone to market. Our farm sits next to several...
View ArticleMule Drawn Wrecker Service
This will only add fuel to those late night discoursians about the relative merits of horses over mules or viciversy. Is the horse the smarter one for hitching a ride or is the mule the smarter one for...
View ArticleWalsh No Buckle Harness
When first you become familiar with North American working harness you might come to the erroneous conclusion that, except for minor style variations, all harnesses are much the same. While quality and...
View ArticleMcCormick-Deering Tractor Disc Harrow No. 10-A
Small to mid-sized disc-harrows are a most useful tillage implement. Some farmers consider them indispensable. Discs such as the McD 10-A may be used with either tractors or big hitches of work horses....
View ArticleRussian Dacha Gardens
Russian household agriculture – dacha gardening - is likely the most extensive system of successful food production of any industrialized nation. This shows that highly decentralized, small-scale food...
View ArticleCheval de Merens Revisited
In the Fall ’97 issue of SFJ you printed an article on the Cheval de Merens, the all black horse of the French Pyrenees. I was immediately obsessed by their beautiful stature, a very strong...
View ArticleCabbage
Cabbage is the most important vegetable commercially of the cole crops, which include cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale, kohlrabi, collard, broccoli, and many others. It also ranks as one of...
View ArticleThe Tip Cart
When horses were the main source of power on every farm, in the British Isles it was the tip-cart, rather than the wagon which was the most common vehicle, and for anyone farming with horses, it is...
View ArticleUseful Birds
Whether a bird is beneficial or injurious depends almost entirely upon what it eats. Birds are often accused of eating this or that product of cultivation, when an examination of the stomachs shows the...
View ArticleBobsled Building Plans
Here are two, old-style, heavy-duty, bobsled building plans featuring the sort of sleds you might have found in New England and the Maritime Provinces of Canada. (In fact you might get lucky and find...
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