Working Oxen Demo

Description

Description

Date: Saturday, June 17th, 2023

Times: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST

Lunch: Buffet-style lunch

Location: 80 Bassett Road, Shelburne MA 01370

Cost: FREE, donations appreciated

Program Description

Join us for a family-friendly day of working steer and oxen demonstrations. We will have adult and youth teamsters working with teams of various ages. Bring your family and learn about this traditional form of draft power, meet some amazing animals and their people, and find out why working oxen are making a comeback in New England.

Our day will start at 10am with an engaging talk from Melanie Brundage who travels around the region with her family demonstrating working oxen and sharing her passion with others. Plan to stay for the day for live demonstrations of teamsters and their oxen pulling a stone boat, logging, and plowing a field to be planted with wheat. You’ll also have a chance to meet these impressive animals and their handlers up close.

Approximate Schedule:

10AM: Introduction by teamster, Melanie Brundage. Melanie and Scott Brundage travel around the region demonstrating working oxen and sharing their passion with others.

11AM: Live demonstrations of oxen pulling a stone boat, logging, and preparing a field to be planted

1PM: Buffet-style lunch

2PM: Meet the oxen and their teamsters

Bring your own chairs or blankets, and please leave pets at home for everyone’s safety and comfort.

Participants

Melanie & Scott Brundage

Jim Gould

More to be added!

Please contact us with any questions at office@fabric-of-life.org.

Our sliding scale fee allows us to keep these programs accessible to a wide range of individuals. The ‘admirer’ option covers the cost of the instructor fee, program support, marketing, and administration. The ‘friend’ option covers all of this and allows for a small profit margin to be contributed towards sustaining Fabric of Life programming for next year. The ‘enthusiast’ option covers all of this and allows for us to begin to sustain Fabric of Life programming for generations to come.

FOL will refund 90% of your fee if you cancel more than 30 days before the beginning of the program. 10% will be retained for administrative services. Cancellation with less than 30 days notice will automatically be rolled over as a credit for another program of your choice within the next year from the date of the original program. FOL will maintain the funds and carry them forward once you determine what program you would like to utilize them for. If there is a balance after paying for the second program, it will not be refunded. If a program does not run due to circumstances beyond our control, participants will receive a full refund of the fees paid.