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- May 8, 2010 at 2:52 pm #41648
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ParticipantI posted a few weeks back about The Farmer and the Horse, a documentary film about young horse farmers and would-be horse farmers in New Jersey. Here’s a link to an article about the film that just went up on Grist:
http://www.grist.org/article/new-jersey-horse-farmers/
In the photos, you’ll first see Tom Paduano working a team of Clydes owned by Charles Napravnik of Asbury Village Farm (in Asbury, NJ) and in the second photo you’ll see Matt Schofield with one of Howell Living History Farm’s Belgians (in Titusville, NJ).
I’m about 65% of the way to my goal of pre-selling $2,000 in DVDs by May 31. If you’re able, please the support the project here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1480255348/the-farmer-and-the-horse
May 9, 2010 at 5:13 pm #60027PhilG
ParticipantNice article,
Matt is 24 and his bank account is near empty, I am 45…my bank acount is near empty, the path I have been on has increased the bank accounts dramatically of insurance agencies, workmans comp extortionists, permiting goverment agencies, tax collecters, oil companys, John Deere,Caterpilller…. the list goes on and on. I am glad to see these young hardworking guys heading down this alternate road of horse farming and living cheap , it took the great depretion of 2009 to kick start me down that path and I have never been so content. It is great to see my kids on the draft horses or cleaning the chicken coop and colecting and cooking eggs.May 9, 2010 at 5:58 pm #60026OldKat
Participant@PhilG 18169 wrote:
Nice article,
Matt is 24 and his bank account is near empty, I am 45…my bank acount is near empty, the path I have been on has increased the bank accounts dramatically of insurance agencies, workmans comp extortionists, permiting goverment agencies, tax collecters, oil companys, John Deere,Caterpilller…. the list goes on and on. I am glad to see these young hardworking guys heading down this alternate road of horse farming and living cheap , it took the great depretion of 2009 to kick start me down that path and I have never been so content. It is great to see my kids on the draft horses or cleaning the chicken coop and colecting and cooking eggs.Good post there, PhilG. Not the part about the economy being down, the OTHER part; about being so content in what you are doing. That is cool to hear, because so few people can honestly say that. I am happy for you.
I understand what you are saying about the accounts being depleted, I had planned on retiring last year, this year, next year … soon anyway & focusing on my cattle and horses. Nothing big time, maybe produce 20 or 30 grass finished beeves a year, maintain a large market garden with mixed horsepower … if you know what I mean.
Now I know it ain’t gonna happen that way, so now I have to figure out how I am going to do those things without retiring. I sure hope to find that contentment that you have PhilG, because I don’t think I can be truly content until I get where you are. Thanks for sharing.
Oh, BTW: the video thing looks cool, I think I’ll support his efforts with this.
Another plug for Howell Living History Farm, great place … go visit if you can and support them however you can.
May 10, 2010 at 3:22 pm #60025Marshall
ParticipantI am almost 40 and the bank account isn’t real full. I would be happy to stay home and raise produce with the horses and maybe a little tractor power mixed in. Unfortunatly the finances say not yet, but I am starting year three of my five year plan. Hopefully at the end of the five years I will have things in place so I can quit working out and farm full time. We will see.
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