It's a rare, low-cost opportunity to try your hand at farming with oxen and horses. It takes you to a world away from ordinary work pressures to life and work in an outdoor environment. We have scheduled it to include the last tillage and plantings, the first cutting of hay, and cultivating early weeds. Part of each day is spent learning skills and the rest in actual hands-on farm work. You practice skills for field operations and draft animal handling.
Assignments depend on skills.
Activities flex with the weather. This participatory continuation of Farming with Oxen and Horses is meant to add more fun and learning for those with a little extra time. It has more participation and less instruction than the first week. Pitching hay behind a team of oxen takes you far from your world of work. 150 Join us in the woods as draft horses and oxen demonstrate ecological removal of logs from the woods with tongs, sleds, and arches.