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Teaching Teamsters: Logging Trials at Sterling College

Tags: college  draft  horses  logging  sterling  teamsters  training  with 

Students practice essential skills required for safe horse logging prior to going into the woodlot.

Rosco: Connection to Food Systems

Tags: College  Sterling 

Respectfully harvesting an animal for our nourishment.

Rotational Grazing System

Tags: animal  College  grazing  multi  rotational  Sterling  systems 

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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  • Author: sustainablesterling

Tags: agriculture  college  draft  farm  horses  program  sterling  summer  sustainable 

"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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  • Author: sustainablesterling

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...