One of the eight films in the Meet Your Farmer series, produced for Maine Farmland Trust. Horses provide most of the horsepower at Paul Birdsall's farm in Downeast Maine.
I'm so happy to have stumbled on this - I lived and worked at Horse Power farm in the summer of 1992. It was a difficult time for me - I remember with fondness both Paul and Mollie, who were welcoming and supportive. My favourite activities were weeding rows and rows of veggies, moving the sheep, and creating flower bouquets to sell at farmers market ❤
Drove by your sign today, going to and from delivering a working treadle sewing machine to a young friend who will use it. She and I are both hand spinners as well but my eyes can no longer deal with using that machine to sew and so I am stuck in the electric age, with an "self-threading" sewing machine now. Next time we go that way I will probably be going to spend time to spin with my friend and I may stop by just to say hey and maybe look at a fleece, if you sell them off the farm.
Hi Mia, I am told I'm 100% Swede. My parents spoke it when discussing my next punishment. I wish I had had the opportunity to meet my aunt who lived her entire life in Sweden. I AM a Johnson. My sister said my dad changed it from Johansson. He married a minnesota frestedt in the early 1930s. Please let me know how life in Sweden was and is. I am in Maryland usa. My email is talkingformoney@gmail.com. phone is 540 270 7097. I AM an auctioneer ... Please let me hear from you. Keith Johnson
I'm so happy to have stumbled on this - I lived and worked at Horse Power farm in the summer of 1992. It was a difficult time for me - I remember with fondness both Paul and Mollie, who were welcoming and supportive. My favourite activities were weeding rows and rows of veggies, moving the sheep, and creating flower bouquets to sell at farmers market ❤
Drove by your sign today, going to and from delivering a working treadle sewing machine to a young friend who will use it. She and I are both hand spinners as well but my eyes can no longer deal with using that machine to sew and so I am stuck in the electric age, with an "self-threading" sewing machine now. Next time we go that way I will probably be going to spend time to spin with my friend and I may stop by just to say hey and maybe look at a fleece, if you sell them off the farm.
Thank you ....a truly honest video. Greetings from Canada
This is amazing! I can't believe this doesn't have more attention?
That's very nice of you! Thanks.
Agreed. real deal
Very nice! Are you 90!? Wow! I have a little farm in Sweden where horses pull all the equipments.
Hi Mia, I am told I'm 100% Swede. My parents spoke it when discussing my next punishment. I wish I had had the opportunity to meet my aunt who lived her entire life in Sweden. I AM a Johnson. My sister said my dad changed it from Johansson. He married a minnesota frestedt in the early 1930s. Please let me know how life in Sweden was and is. I am in Maryland usa. My email is talkingformoney@gmail.com. phone is 540 270 7097. I AM an auctioneer ...
Please let me hear from you. Keith Johnson
Hey! Are you still active in that field? (no pun intended) :)
I’d like to use oxen. Yes they’re slower and less intelligent, but they are calmer and slower which can be good.
I want to go to visit that place!!!!
Great you have hour grandson is working with you! I am working here alone... it feels too heavy, often.
I agree. It was a special relationship he had with his grandson.
You are logging....are you planting as well. Plant seven for every one cut.
Do they have to play that music in the background. I mean can't we just listen to the guy talk about his experience but I've been annoyed.