Join: Jul 11, 2008
Name: sustainablesterling
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Teaching Teamsters: Logging Trials at Sterling College
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- Author: sustainablesterling
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Students practice essential skills required for safe horse logging prior to going into the woodlot.
Rosco: Connection to Food Systems
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- Author: sustainablesterling
Respectfully harvesting an animal for our nourishment.
Rotational Grazing System
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Cattle, Sheep, our breeding sow, and a guard llama all systematically rotate through available pasture. In a few days, two chicken tractors will follow along.
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Pig
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- Author: sustainablesterling
Tags: cow ecological farming holistic jersey
When is a pig not a pig? Answer: when she is a Jersey calf! Pig, age 6 weeks, greets folks as they enter the farm with a gleeful "moo", a hop-skip-and-a-jump, and looks mournfully if you pass her by without giving a little scratch on the chin. Pig is a student project--those projects developed...
Working with Horses: The Movie
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"I write, as I must, from the point of view of a country person, a member of a small rural community that has been dwindling rapidly since the end of World War II. Only the most fantastical optimism could ignore the possibility that my community is doomed--that it was doomed by the overwhelming...
Logs to Lumber, Part 2 at Sterling College
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Tags: Agriculture College Draft Horses Logging Lumber Sterling Sustainable
Working a horse in the woods provides students with the insight into historic logging practices as well as the practice of modern restorative forestry. Here, a student removes two stems which will be processed for sugarwood. Working together, the driver, swamper, and horse effeciently extract the...