We are transitioning our conventional organic garden to a regenerative organic no-till garden. Many changes will have big effects! We are using compost to form permanent beds and continue to build organic matter. We are using heavy mulches between rows to reduce weed pressure, in our case, it is soiled …
Do You Dream of being the Leader and Partner Your Horse Needs You to Be? Turn Your Dream into Reality: attend a Doc Hammill Horsemanship Workshop at Borderland Ranch in 2022 Would you like to learn to develop Trust, Respect, and Leadership in your relationship with your horse? feel safe, …
At Doc Hammill Horsemanship we help you to learn how to work, drive, and train horses in Gentle, Effective ways that make sense to equines. Consider making 2022 the year that you advance your horsemanship skills by participating in one (or all) of Doc and Cathy’s many learning opportunities so …
We use our horse-drawn bale moving wagon regularly on the ranch to move bales! We purchased the wagon as seen here. It was made by the seller, who assembled components to make a very useable and maneuverable wagon. It has Gehl running gear and is shortened to a 10-foot bed …
A Fine Team of Three We visited with them as they were getting ready to leave, in the early Montana light. Here is Bayln with his new team of Belgians, a fine team of three. We have been fortunate to know Balyn for several years and were quite excited …
The photo shows Doc working Ann and Kate, our Suffolk Punch mares, at plowing snow with a Pioneer Forecart and Pioneer Back Blade accessory. We’ve had the blade for our Pioneer fore cart for about 10 years and it works very well for us. In addition to plowing snow we …
Winter, our quiet time, is a time we use to keep our horses tuned up, and ready to work as instructors in our Montana Workhorse Workshops. We have had snow here at home since mid-December so we get to put the horses on sleds and sleighs, and in some cases, change …
For Doc and me, plowing with horse-drawn walking plows is a favorite activity. We both enjoy plowing with one, two, or three horses hitched to a walking plow. The sounds, the smell, the feeling of holding the handles, and working with the soils … it is all part of it …
EAST MEETS WEST We feel privileged to have recently shared our home for a visit from Jay and Janet Bailey, of Fair Winds Farm, for a couple of days. The Baileys live in Vermont, own and operate a horse-powered, organic market vegetable farm. Like us, the Baileys also offer intensive, …
