Group works the fields the old fashioned way
By Bruce Rolfe
A group of people who enjoy working in the fields the old fashioned way, used some of those old practices at the CloverDale Farms Draft Horse Days over the Labor Day weekend at the
Bartholomew farm on South 37th Street in Scotts.
The group hooked up Belgian and Percheron horses to equipment and worked in the fields spreading manure, mowing, cutting, raking, and bundling hay.
Travis Bartholomew said the family plans the event annually over the Labor Day weekend (Friday and Saturday). The event is open to the public.
Bartholomew adds there may be other times during the year a group of people who enjoy working in fields with their horses, gather to work in the field, an old time practice he said most visitors recall doing when they were younger.
“It’s in your blood, right? It runs in the family. We’ve all done it since we were kids,” said Bartholomew, who said the group also used a team of horses to spread manure on a field last winter.
Scotts resident Rick Eshuis said he enjoys the peaceful environment and getting together with people who share his love of working in the field with horses.
“The best part is just getting like minded people together to get our horses out. A lot of us have them for different reasons, basically recreation at this point. To get out and do real work, it’s always fun, and we’re doing real work today with raking hay and getting ready to put up some hay. So that’s always fun,” said Eshuis.
Eshuis said he’s always amazed how quickly the horses adapt and learn the type of work in the field he’s doing.
“It’s interesting. You go off and start raking a field like this, make one, maybe two passes, and the horses pick up on it pretty quickly. And you do very little steering, from then on out. They just kind of understand it. They’re very repetitious, they just start following a pattern,” adds Eshuis.
While there were some who have worked with horses in fields for many years that were participating in the CloverDale Farms Draft Horse Days event last weekend, Bartholomew said it was pleasing to see a younger generation temporarily step away from gas powered equipment and embrace the practice of hooking up a team of horses to work in the fields.
His son Garrett, who farms full time, had a team of 4 horses pulling a hay tedder last Saturday.
Nearby, there were young children watching.
“That’s great to see, going to the next generation. And then having grandkids around that hopefully will carry it on even to another generation,” said Travis.
A group of people who enjoy working in the fields the old fashioned way, used some of those old practices at the CloverDale Farms Draft Horse Days over the Labor Day weekend at the
Bartholomew farm on South 37th Street in Scotts.
The group hooked up Belgian and Percheron horses to equipment and worked in the fields spreading manure, mowing, cutting, raking, and bundling hay.
Travis Bartholomew said the family plans the event annually over the Labor Day weekend (Friday and Saturday). The event is open to the public.
Bartholomew adds there may be other times during the year a group of people who enjoy working in fields with their horses, gather to work in the field, an old time practice he said most visitors recall doing when they were younger.
“It’s in your blood, right? It runs in the family. We’ve all done it since we were kids,” said Bartholomew, who said the group also used a team of horses to spread manure on a field last winter.
Scotts resident Rick Eshuis said he enjoys the peaceful environment and getting together with people who share his love of working in the field with horses.
“The best part is just getting like minded people together to get our horses out. A lot of us have them for different reasons, basically recreation at this point. To get out and do real work, it’s always fun, and we’re doing real work today with raking hay and getting ready to put up some hay. So that’s always fun,” said Eshuis.
Eshuis said he’s always amazed how quickly the horses adapt and learn the type of work in the field he’s doing.
“It’s interesting. You go off and start raking a field like this, make one, maybe two passes, and the horses pick up on it pretty quickly. And you do very little steering, from then on out. They just kind of understand it. They’re very repetitious, they just start following a pattern,” adds Eshuis.
While there were some who have worked with horses in fields for many years that were participating in the CloverDale Farms Draft Horse Days event last weekend, Bartholomew said it was pleasing to see a younger generation temporarily step away from gas powered equipment and embrace the practice of hooking up a team of horses to work in the fields.
His son Garrett, who farms full time, had a team of 4 horses pulling a hay tedder last Saturday.
Nearby, there were young children watching.
“That’s great to see, going to the next generation. And then having grandkids around that hopefully will carry it on even to another generation,” said Travis.
(Photo by Tricia Bartholomew)
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