Where there are animals there is manure. Which leads to the age-old question of what to do with all the manure? Research by Amy Bogaard, an archaeobotanist, leads us to believe that manure was used as fertilizer even 7,900 years ago. The most likely scenario is that people observed plants growing well in areas where […]
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Stuck at home due to COVID-19? Don’t despair, you can practice carriage driving and whip handling at home! Driving and sleighing are incredibly fun and rewarding activities, sadly not everyone is able to indulge on a daily basis. Rein boards are a very viable option for practicing but if you board your horse and/or have
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During the late 1890s through to the early 1900s young men hitched their financial dreams to a peanut shaped wagon and a tandem of donkeys before heading for the beach. They were selling Peanutine, a peanut and molasses confection. Peanutine was commercially made by the E.B. Sears Peanutine Company in Old Orchard, Maine. The 1906
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