Meet Jack and Jim, a pair of 3-year-old Devon oxen that will be making their debut at the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster this weekend. The two oxen were donated by the museum’s Hoff Barn ...

Stash looked at me through his fringe of shaggy hair as I shouted, “Walk on!” He just stood staring at me with a puzzled look on his face. I was standing about six feet in front of him and using the ...

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 ...

Topper and Stash stood on the edge of a ravine, a 20-foot drop, with a log attached to their yoke. One more step and they’d go over the edge dragging the log with them. It would be a very messy tumble ...

Leave the hustle and worries of the 21st century behind and step into the rhythm of life in the 1800s. Join instructors Chuck Bauer and Bob McCann from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 at Garfield ...

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 ...