Editor’s note: This is a new series following small farms in the Champlain Valley throughout the seasons. Each spring at Full and By, a small farm in Essex, the draft horses are brought out for the first time since the fall. Owner Sara Kurak saddles them up and hooks them to the compost spreaders with the help of Zhao Jiewei, her long-time farmhand. “Come up,” she says with easy authority, and the two massive Suffolk Punches get moving, pulling …
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