I have a friend who is working on her graduate thesis, and really wants to know. Your participation would be fantastic! Imma just cut and paste her message below ( Read more... )

Bulletin from the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign calling the BLM on its horrible wildlife management yet again. Please read through and consider lending your voice.

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The federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has issued its 2010 Round-up Schedule which provides for the capture of a staggering 12,000 additional wild horses and ( Read more... )

I am not sure if this is an appropriate forum for this discussion, but I feel that equestrians are going to best be able to point me in the right direction and offer commentary ( Read more... )

Today is Earth Day in the Northern Hemisphere. How is your farm going green ( Read more... )

In these hard economic times, the horse people around me and my own farm included have found that obtaining truckloads of sawdust or shavings is more and more difficult. Prices on the dust are going up. Fewer saw mills are open. Of those open, fewer are giving or selling their dust to the equestrian sector. Saw dust providers must travel further ( Read more... )

Hey guys. I have to do a project for my Environmental class and of course I decided to find a way to do it about horses. I'm doing it on being sustainable by using draft horses and also on ways to be sustainable with your own horses.

I know some people have/work with drafts. Any good general draft websites? Or websites about using drafts for farm ( Read more... )

I recently placed an order from horse.com, 3 gallon jugs of various fly sprays and 2 gallons of Vetrolin. I was completely horrified when they arrived in FIVE BOXES, each filled with styrofoam "popcorn." The boxes I can recycle, but the styrofoam I can't, nor does it biodegrade. The same day, our substantial farm SmartPak orders arrived, admittedly ( Read more... )

We put a lot of thought into ecology and conservation as we built our farm. We want to run for a profit, obviously (or at least break even), but also want to be ecologically conscious, and do everything we could do reduce our fingerprint on our happy little planet. There was an article in Equestrian magazine (USEF's pub) a few months back about ( Read more... )