Rural Heritage October/November 2025

One of the many teams put to large people-movers transported visitors from the parking area to the event

In the Round Pen, there were clinics on Colt Starting, Equine Nutrition and Mare Care and Horse Conformation. The Produce Area offered field demonstrations on soil preparation and planting, a seminar on Understanding Soil and Tissue Tests and the ever popular Greenhouse Tomato Tour. The Logging Program featured Felling Demonstrations with the sharing of safety tips on how to handle these dangerous situations. There was advice on Tree Topping and proper trimming to keep your trees healthy as well as demonstrations with Logging Carts, Sawmills and other Related Equipment. The Homestead tent offered diversified seminars: Your Cow’s Health and Production From the Soil Up, a Dairy Herd Roundtable Discussion, Do’s and Don’ts Learned from 20-plus Years Grazing Cattle, a Pork Processing Demonstration, Managing A Home Orchard Without Pesticides, Egg Production, Raising Meat Goats and Honey Bees in the Winter. For the ladies in the Homemaker’s Tent, the Cheesemaking Seminar was very popular. Also

After years in business, in 2023 Daniel Hostetler sold the Colonville Country Store to longtime employee Lee Yoder. The business has continued to expand, adding a propane filling station, propane appliances and lawn furniture. That’s in addition to the wide variety of products that the store stocks. Colonville Country Store offers a chance to browse, the opportunity to buy and the possibility of finding a unique treasure that you just have to have. Once again this year, HPD offered “Something for Everyone.” For farmers there was the latest in draft powered equipment. In the morning, there were demonstrations of manure spreaders, large and small. Plows, disks and other harrows showed how to prepare the soil. In the afternoon, there were hay mowers of all types, tedders, rakes and balers, both small square and round. After the balers came bale movers and wrappers. The Michigan Horseshoer Association Tent featured presentations on Horse Hoof Care and Harness and Collar Fitting and, as befits the name, Effective Shoeing Demonstrations.

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