Using an ox team may seem an antique hobby to you, but on a small farm can be really useful. “It’s a very low tech, low tech solution to farming problems,” explains Kendy Sawyer, who was training ...

On a recent afternoon amid the hype of children, rides and fried-food bliss, one very large OC Fair employee stands out from the crowd – a black-and-white, 6-foot-tall ox named Patches. Patches, a ...

Since Calumet Avenue has punched its way through to U.S. 30, it is easy to see how land in the middle part of Lake County is likely to develop. From the overpass, one can look down not at corn sprouts ...

POULTNEY, Vt. (AP) — Bill and Lou have plied the fields of Green Mountain College’s farm in Vermont for most of their lives — about 10 years. Students have learned to drive the oxen team for haying ...