Quote of the Day

"I have always contended that the substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind."
(Sir Winston Churchill)

(Horse watering trough in Monson, Massachusetts, with the author's internal combustion engine and a classic red internal combustion engine. The trough was placed in 1882 by W.N. Flynt and the street surrounding it is Fountain St.)

(Bud on Rt. 181, about to pass between the concrete abutments of the Hampden Railroad ("The Railroad That Never Was"). Our farm lies on the other side.)

(The same place on Rt. 181 in November of 1912.)

Burgundy Brook Farm - New Home of Blue Star Equiculture

Pamela, Robin and Amber went to Burgundy Brook Farm yesterday to check out our new digs.

Here are a few photos.


The barn and carriage house.



The farm house.


Silo and workspace.


The barn is huge. There's room for 10,000 bales of hay.

The horse stalls downstairs. The boys will be spending most of their time outside, though.

Look at that pasture!

The road going into the farm fields.

View from the house of the paddock behind it.


There's a restaurant (Burgundy Brook Farm Country Store) that the farm surrounds. We look forward to the possibility of working with them.

(If you're driving by on Rt. 181, stop in and have a bite to eat.)

We'll be moving in the third week of March!

Blue Star Equiculture

Things are happening and are very exciting both in Philadelphia and up in western Massachusetts.

Thanks to the generosity of Sandy Walsh and her Blue Star Heritage Foundation, Blue Star Equiculture Draft Horse Rescue and Organic Farm is well on its way to becoming a reality.

Lease terms have been settled with the owners of Burgundy Brook Farm in Palmer, Massachusetts and we will be moving in the third week in March. We will have access to 149 acres, a 20-horse barn, office building and farm house.

Pam is going to moving the boys (Bud, Cupcake, Huey, Petey, Dakota, and Tela) and Omar and herself in then. Glenn has much work to do conditioning the soil to prepare it for planting. We hope to offer organics workshops by May.

There is so much going on right now as we start to file non-profit paperwork and start planning our fundraisers.

We have big plans and the future looks bright!

You can read about those plans on our website, http://www.equiculture.org/. The design of the website is temporary while Christina works on building a much more detailed website as our dreams become concrete reality.

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