A pleasant surprise showed up in my inbox yesterday: an email from a farm in Southern Vermont that I had not expected to respond to me. I had emailed the farm in the middle of December, and I was not expecting a response after three weeks of silence. I visited this farm while I was in Vermont for my internship, as their posting (now removed) on the website of Rural Heritage (where I find many of my internships) had said that they required people to visit them before taking an internship. I must have been likable enough, because they told me that I should send them a letter of interest describing "the times that [I am] available, what [I] would like to get from [my] internship and what strengths [I] bring to the farm." Their farm specializes in rotational grazing and organic meat and egg production, something that might seem exclusive of my current veganism. I am not vegan because I do not believe in the production of animals for food, however; I simply want to be involved in the raising of any animal that I am going to eat or eat the products from.
This farm also runs well-known (at least to the draft horse crowd) draft horse workshops, and they seem to be very passionate about their Suffolk Punch horses, members of a rare but very sturdy breed of farm horses. I think that the farm would be a good place for me to learn the basics of the difficult skill of driving and working with horses, and to learn more about sustainable animal production.
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