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Teamster & Presenter Bios: continued from page 10Tim Harrigan – works oxen in centralMI where he is a professor ofbiosystems engineering at MichiganState University. He is also presidentof the Midwest Ox DroversAssociation and on the board ofTillers International in addition toserving on the DAPNet board ofDirectors.Donn Hewes - and his wife, MaryroseLivingston live in Marathon,NY where they graze and milksheep for cheese making and meat.Donn works with horses and mulesto produce hay, firewood, vegetables,and anything else he can thinkof. They both enjoy teaching andworking with farm interns eachyear.Tom Jenkins - “I have lived inWesthampton, MA my whole life. Iam a 9th generation teamster myfamily still sugars, sell hay and havehobby oxen. I got my first teamwhen I was five years old and amcurrently on my 6th. I have been aConsulting Forester for Bay StateForestry Service for 16 years, andhave recently started integratingLow Impact Logging into my forestmanagement strategies. Logging ismy team’s main purpose. Howeverwe will do any work that can befound. I am the father of 3 youngkids and love teaching childrenabout forestry as well as oxen.”Brad Johnson - owns and operatesAll Together Farm in RandolphCenter, VT with his wife and daughter.The farm incorporates horsepower year round, and they sell pastureraised chicken, turkey, beef,pork and lamb. In addition Bradoffers positive-impact horse loggingand sheep shearing services.Jennifer Judkins – is owner andoperator of Resting Heart Farm in20Danby, Vermont. An MD by day,Jen has a diversified farm usinghorsepower where possible andteaches driving clinics to new teamsters.Seth Johnson - is a farmer inGlover, Vermont using Belgians tohelp with the farm work. He and hiswife grow vegetables & dry beans.They have hosted previous draftanimal gatherings at their farm.Anna Knapp-Peck – owns & operatesZion Farm in DeKalb Junction,NY with Cody Peck & Alan Knap.They grow seasonal produce &flowers using oxen as the mainsource of power on their farm. Theiroxen have been featured in variouscommercials, films & ads. "We usemostly single oxen for vegetableproduction. We have built our farmbased on Psalm 8 and the principlesof good stewardship: if we takegood care of the land and the animalsthey will take care of us.”Ken & Martha Laing – operateOrchard Hill Farm near St.Thomas,Ontario, Canada. “We started farmingin1979. Our farm has evolvedfrom a small fruit pick your ownoperation, transitioned to organic in1989,and has involved various enterprisesincluding organic cashcrops and Christmas trees. The CSA[community shared agriculture] wasstarted in 1997 and quickly becamethe main enterprise on the 93 acrefarm. We have 220 summer seasonCSA members with an additional100 fall members. Our first horseswere purchased in 1980 and presentlywe have 7 Suffolk Punches todo most of the work on the farm.Through our apprentice program wehave trained 40 new farmers andintroduced many people to drafthorses through our draft horse workshops.We look forward to sharingour experience of marrying our passionfor draft horses and a CSA tocreate a productive and profitablefarm business.”Will & Keeley Lent – live on a 40acre farm with draft horses, sheepand chickens. Will has been a farrierfor over 35 years and has built draftshoes for as long. On top of managingall of the draft horse shoe orders,Keeley runs the Will LentHorseshoe Company farrier supplybusiness and tries to keep Willpointed in the right direction...not aneasy job!Stephen Leslie - is the author of"The New Horse-PoweredFarm" (Chelsea Green Pub 2013).Stephen began farming with drafthorses in 1994. He manages CedarMountain Farm with his wife KerryGawalt, they are a Fjord horsepoweredCSA and dairy farm locatedat Cobb Hill Co-housing inHartland, VT.Susie Marchand - has been workingat Shelburne Farms for 20 yearsin the education department connectingpeople of all ages to the importanceof agriculture and wheretheir food comes from. She is presentlythe Agriculture Education Coordinatorand oversees The Farmyardfrom May to October, planningfamily programs and specialevents throughout the rest of theyear. She is also co-leader of theShelburne Explorers 4-H club whichmeets at the Dairy.Erika Marczak - is the market gardenerat Abington Grown, in Abington,CT. Erika uses her MilkingShorthorn steers and her partnerSam Rich's Percheron horses to domuch of the work in the market gardenand she also helps out on therest of the diverse operations at We-Li-Kit Farm.Continued on page 22