Many years ago I had a dream to start farming with draft horses, but the cost of starting a farm and buying, land, building and horses was daunting. I went to college and studied equine management and after that I sat in on a workshop that was using draft-horses. In the workshops I actually got to work with a three horse hitch, the feeling of power is more than any car or motorcycle could possible give me. I loved it and every moment of it.

I guess it was the romantic vision that I had of being connected to the soil with a team of horses working before me. I always predicted an end to oil or a climate change was we would have to stop relaying on fossil fuels to power our farms. The truth is that many people will not go back to the horse, it's too slow and it's really hard work. I watched an interesting program on the television the other night about biodiversity in agriculture. It's simply letting nature do the work for you that machines and man have been trying to do. The only thing we will have to eventually reduce or meat intake and reliance on gains. The solution word be for the world to eat a basically vegan diet. I know a lot of people will not like the thought of this but this planet cannot sustain the amount of mouths it will have to feed by the end of this century.