Learning Opportunities

• Good Farming Apprenticeship Network—farmers and loggers across North America willing to take on a novice
  
  
• Front Porch teamster and drover online forum
  
  
• Draft Animal Power Network
  

• Draft-Animal Farming Books, Magazines and Videotapes

Farming with Horse Power

• Economics of Farming with Horses by Chet Kendell
  
  
• How Much Power Do You Need? by Sam Moore
  
  
• How to Plow with Horses (and other draft animals) by Ralph Rice

• Horse-Powered Market Garden by Anne & Eric Nordell
  
  
• Getting the Most from Manure by Alina Rice
  
  
• Farming Research and Information courtesy of University of California, Davis
  


• 25 Questions and Answers about Composting courtesy of Composting Council of Canada
  
  
• Organic Farming and Gardening Books and Videotapes
  

Marketing Opportunities

• The Rumble of Sustainability by Ralph Rice
  
  
• Opportunity Knocking by John Ikerd
  
  
• Forging Local Connections by Ralph Rice
  

Forage

• Good Pasture = Dr. Green by Kevin H. Kline & Edward N. Ballard
  
  
• Horse Pasture Management by Mary Ann Sherman
  


• Grass Farming courtesy of ATTRA
  
  
• Safer Grass courtesy of Kathryn Watts
  
  
• Endophyte Infected Fescue by Mary Ann Sherman
  
  
• Hay Quality Evaluator developed by Joe Burns & Gary Bates

• Check Your Local Weather Radar
  
  
• Severe Weather Advisory courtesy of The Weather Underground
  
  
• Weather Watches & Advisories courtesy of National Weather Services
  
  
• National Water and Climate courtesy of USDA
  
  
• Drought Information Center courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  
  
• Seasonal Drought Outlook courtesy of National Weather Services
  
  
• National Drought Mitigation courtesy of University of Nebraska-Lincoln