Fjordworks:THE BAREFOOT FARMER: NATURAL HOOF CARE AND HOLISTIC MANAGEMENT AT CEDAR MOUNTAIN FARM

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With technical assistance, fact-checking, and generally sound advice from Kerry Gaw alt, both of Cedar Mountain Farm at Cobb Hill Co-housing in Hartland, VT. There is an old saying among cowboys that; "A man who can't shoe his own horse or shoot his own dog shouldn't by rights have neither." If I try to apply this standard to my own farming life, the kernel of truth I discover lies in the observable fact that any horse owner who trims her own horse's feet will be that much more intimately attuned tothe life force of that animal. Another old saying that every farrier is likely to pronounce within ear shot of the horse owner at some point comes from a treatise on shoeing published in Great Britain in 1751 entitled; "No foot, no horse." In other words, let your best equine management practices begin with the feet.