Billings Farm & Museum Spring Farm Festival (formerly Plowing Match) 

Woodstock, VT

Saturday & Sunday, May 1 & 2, 2010

        Saturday: Oxen Plowing Competition

        Sunday: Horse Plowing Competition

(Please note that the plowing matches - now occurring on two days - will run the same way as they have been in previous years at the Billings Farm.)

For more information:

            Billings Farm & Museum

            P.O. Box 489

            Woodstock, Vermont 05091

            (802) 457-2355

            Fax: (802) 457-4663

            www.billingsfarm.org

 

Oxen: The Power Source of New England

Sturbridge, MA

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Full-day pre-conference workshop

ALHFAM Conference 2010

Old Sturbridge Village

"Join us on this 40th anniversary of our founding for a rare opportunity to learn from some of the top ox training families in New England.  Featured presenter - Drew Conroy, author of the well-known Oxen: A Teamster's Guide, will be joined by Mark Winslow and Tim Huppe.  Together with their families, they will share generations of knowledge that is still alive and well...and even thriving in New England.  This is a workshop experience intended for an audience with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.  If you are interested in oxen, this is your workshop."

 

For more information:

        

    Old Sturbridge Village
    1 Old Sturbridge Village Road
    Sturbridge, Massachusetts 01566
    Telephone: (508) 347-3362

 

            or

   

    Drew Conroy

    oxwoodfarm@aol.com