AGRICULTURAL LINKS
These pages will lead you to the arts
& cultural events going on and places
to stay in our community, to Event
Planners who can help you with party planning here or
elsewhere, and to direct contact with
our farm staff. Also here: Driving Clubs,
Horseback riding and Publications.
BOVINE & EQUINE
Albemarle County's fair is located
here at Bundoran Farm, every Labor Day
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia
Tech)
Virginia Tech College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
Virginia Tech Department of Animal & Poultry Sciences
Virginia Tech Dept of A&PS Equine Program, headed by Dr.
Ann Dunnington and Dr.
Rebecca Splan, both of whom have attended our Driving
School
Virginia Department of Forestry
Virginia Tech Department of Forestry
Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries
Virginia Draft Horse & Mule Assn. Lots of really good
draft horse links are here!
Virginia Horse Council
VirginiaEquestrian.com is a weblisting of many Virginia
trainers, breeders, suppliers, etc.
DRIVING CLUBS:
Shenandoah Valley Driving Club, pleasure driving in the valley:
contact Neil Robichaux
or call (540) 377-6719
James River Driving Club: drives carriages in Richmond and
around central Virginia. Contact Dot Ruqus at 804-556-4486
or Cheryl Childress
at 804-784-0001
Potomac River Driving Club, meets around northern Virginia:
contact Marged Harris
or call her at 540-338-4354
 HORSEBACK
TRAIL RIDES: Gordonsville, VA. David & Sally Lamb, 434-832-3350
J & L Livestock owned by Jerry & Luisa Chappell of Front
Royal often have draft teams for sale.
Ray Kisamore - call 540-337-6041 - of Lazy K Farms, just west
of Staunton breeds and sells fine Percheron draft horses.
Lazy K Farms and Bundoran Farm operated our driving
schools jointly for several years. We have the highest
regard for their livestock
Harmon's Hayrides offers rides and weddings in the Washington
DC area.
Healing Harvest Foundation is run by Jason Rutledge. He
teaches horselogging and sells beautiful (and rare) Suffolk
Punch draft horses, like the two horses that Susan and Tom
Skalak own.
American Work Horse Museum commemorating the draft horse
and mule, is located at the Virginia Horse Center.
Blue Ridge Institute & Museum in Ferrum, near Roanoke,
offers presentations of Appalachian history and culture. Roddy
Moore is the curator; his wife Sally breeds champion Percherons.
Steve Bowers of Bowers Farms in Fort Collins, Colorado
is a horse trainer we admire. We use several of his excellent
articles in our clinics.
 Our
friend and Virginia neighbors Bill
Speiden and his wife Sandra are in a special category.
They like to drive teams of four oxen and they do it all over
the American west.
In the summer of 2001, the Bozeman Trail - and its wet gulches
- was a challenge! "Nip"
and "Tuck", "Peanut" and
"Butter" had a long day in this creek!
Once, in public, Bill's team met our four horses and was ordered
to their knees in a very polite bow; then Bill said "Now
let's see your four horses do that!" We slowly drove
away, utterly devastated!
HORSE & CATTLE
PUBLICATIONS:
Virginia Horse Journal is a really good monthly journal
of everything happening here in Virginia that is horse
related, published by Dean & Darlene Jacobson.
The Carriage Association of America publishes the Carriage
Journal, an excellent monthly glossy magazine on coaching,
carriages and restorations.
Draft Horse Journal is the must-subscribe magazine
for draft horse enthusiasts
Driving Digest Magazine is a nice monthly that covers
all aspects of driving: pleasure, draft, CDE, shows, etc.
Very nice, and all-inclusive.
Small Farmer's Journal interesting philosophical approach
to animal-powered agriculture. Full of wonderful technical
articles about the use and repair of antique agricultural
equiipment.
There is a new driving horse publication that we like:
Horse Drawn News, published by Tammy Slade in Georgia.
Take a look.
HORSES IN VIRGINIA 18 x 24" illustrated color lithograph
now available from artist Ann
Chenoweth Sader. The centerpiece of the illustration is
a drawing of the Commonwealth, noting the major cities, towns,
and county courthouses (and lots of horses!) around the state.
$25.00 per poster, plus $5.00 for shipping to each address.
(Sales tax is included) contact Ann at 804-769-3953 or fax
to 804-769-3942 or email
her Order by mail from Locust Hill Press, P.O. Box 100,
St. Stephens Church, Va. 23184.
INTERNATIONAL
Museum of Rural English Life in Reading, England 100 miles
west of London, is an extraordinarily well-presented collection
of early farm machinery, waggons, household items, etc. The
Keeper (curator) is Roy Brigden, who was very helpful as we
built the American Work Horse Museum in Lexington Va.
Heavy Horse World is Great Britain's only magazine - and
a good one, too - devoted to Draught Horses, published by
Diana Zeuner.
Thimbleby & Shorland Carriage Auctioneers in Reading,
England 100 miles west of London.
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