Winter Draft Horse Gathering Feb 16

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Join us for our Winter Gathering, February 16

Does’ Leap Farm, East Fairfield, VT

This will be a full day of horse-fun to ease your cabin fever! Join us
for a day of demonstrations and conversations around integrating draft
horses into a working farm. Help us welcome Kristen & George to the
wonderful world of farming with horses! At Does’ Leap they milk about 35
goats and make cheese. They also raise chickens, beef and pigs. They
have recently added a team of Belgians to the mix to haul firewood,
spread manure and do other farm chores. We will do some work in the
“Play Pen” and then harness the team. We will demo a Forest Products
logging arch as well as Mark Cowdrey’s Firewood Arch, discussing various
aspects of working horses into the routines of a working farm.

We’ll share a potluck lunch, so bring a dish and an index card with a
complete list of ingredients to inform those with food
allergies/intolerance issues. Bring your questions and requests. Kristen
and George will “pass the hat” to cover expenses, so a small donation
would be appreciated. For more info call Fair Winds: 802-254-9067 or
Does’ Leap: 802-827-3046. RSVP is helpful but not essential.

If you are interested in carpooling, reply to this email and we’ll try
to set you up. Most successful will be folks along the interstate
corridor, but give a shout if you have room for others or if you would
like to ride with someone else.

Directions to Does’ Leap from the south:

Take I-89 to Exit 11, turn right on Rt 2, then right on Rt 117, then
right again on Gov. Peck Highway. These three turns are all very close
together. Take Gov. Peck Hwy to a left turn on Brown’s Trace Road. Go
through Jericho, turn right on Rt 15, go through Underhill and up to
Cambridge, turn left on 108 in Jeffersonville. Go 8.2 of miles up 108,
watch for a black mailbox on the right with the number 1703 on it at the
bottom of the dip. Watch for the evener leaning against the mailbox! If
you pass Whitney Road on the left, you have just missed it. See you there!

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