January snowstorm: morning chores on the farm

I cannot imagine work without the daily ritual of feeding animals...enjoy this video postcard from our farm here at Sterling College.

A wonderful January day to take out the sleigh and zip around the Common.

Draft Horse Management and Outdoor Education and Leadership

Taking a suite of courses to round out one's college experience is commonplace; at Sterling College, this may mean trading in your climbing helmet for a chainsaw and a horse in harness to skid logs.

Spreading Compost with the Team

Using our combination of tractor and horse-power, students spread manure and compost on the pastures and in the gardens.

First Snow and Three Abreast

Students enjoyed the Halloween snowstorm as they learned how to remove snowballs from the bottom of each horses' hooves. Also, students rigged the lines to work Pete, Rex and Lincoln in a three abreast configuration--a great farm hitch.

Training Teamsters: Cart Work from the Ground

Students master essential skills in low-risk environments prior to actually needed those skills while working in the woodlot. Here, students learn that carts can be turned on a single-wheel pivot around a cone. This skill is important while working in the tight confines of a woodlot.

Training Teamsters: Horse Logging Trials

Students practice, and are required to master, essential skills necessary for safe horse logging extaction of logs from our woodlot in a relatively low-risk setting prior to going into the woods for work.