Small Farmer's Journal

Big Litter by Bobbie Shafer of Troup, TX We had lived out on our farm on the Rusk Highway for about three years and in those three years I had watched the chicks hatch, a foal born, and on one Sunday at our regular fried chicken dinner, Daisy, our favorite milk cow delivered early in […]

Portable Forges • Scrapers • Grain Shocker • Weber Wagons

Now, Jack had reached a place of frustrations in his personal life that eventually led to a divorce and created a lack of direction. When he returned from Korea as a war correspondent, one of his editors, Ninetta Eames, invited him to spend time in the countryside of Glen Ellen to think about his future. Little did Jack London know that when he boarded the passenger train in Oak...

The Conestoga horse was an early native North American breed of draft horse developed in the early 1700s. It was bred for farm labour and to pull the distinctive Conestoga freight wagon. Unfortunately the breed was absorbed through cross breeding and disappeared.

Today, as we dodged the quick-moving thundershower under the protective canopy of tall sugar maples soon to be bathed in the hallowed glow of a double rainbow cresting over the Lowell Mountains, I realized that my partnership with this land and these horses is sacred. I wonder: how I have come to be in this spot, at this time, working the woods on the high ground of Mark Dunbar’...