Cherish the Past
I once said to a friend of mine, "Do you ever wish they made a solar powered
tractor?" He replied, "They do! It's called a mule."
As we enter the crossing point for "peak oil" and prepare for life in a post-petroleum world, I have more than once wondered whether we wouldn't be wise to try to recapture some of the previous farming technologies that worked quite well for us. Imagine my surprise when one morning a "mule train" walked right past the farm.
They live in Scottsboro
I believe he said his name was Ralph Belamy, (my apology if that's wrong. I hate my senior mind moments.)
They were traveling the 30 miles from TN to Scottsboro. The mules were quite capable of climbing the mountains and handling the loads. One just needs to know how to water, feed and rest them.
