Project Overview
Low-input Sustainable Dairy Farming Through Draft Horse Power
Commodities
- Animal Products: dairy
Practices
- Education and Training: workshop
Proposal summary:
I propose to introduce people interested in becoming dairy farmers to the techniques and skills required to integrate horses into a farming operation. I will hold three week-long workshops a year in which a small number of referred individuals will receive intensive instruction in the use of draft horses as a means of planting, cultivating and harvesting enough crops to sustain a dairy operation under the most difficult economic conditions.