Eric Husted Draft Horse & Small Grains Project Manager LaBocaCenter for Sustainability I grew up farming in Indiana during the green Revolution when all the experts were telling farmers to sell their animals and take out their fences and plant big fields of corn and soybeans.  We did some of that, but still had cattle and chickens and horses.  35 years later I find myself involved with a group of people here at La Boca who are fighting that trend toward specialization and bigness. In between I was a cook, a gold miner, a landscaper, an Outward Bound instructor, a climber, a carpenter, and most recently a logger running a sustainable forestry business using draft horses for skidding logs in the ponderosa pine forests of Southwest Colorado.  My other main focus the last 14 years has been building timber frame strawbale houses using wood that we logged and then sawmilled on our own mill.  I ended up in the Four Corners region after discovering it during field courses with Prescott College and deciding with my partner that it was far enough away from big cities and 6 lane highways to suit us.  We moved to a small hand-built strawbale homestead on 35 acres to experiment with Permaculture and raising goats, chickens, turkeys, pigs, draft horses, one cow and the most wonderful daughter in the world. I look forward to combining my interests in sustainable forestry and building with the focus here at La Boca on developing sustainable food systems for the Four Corners region.  My horses are looking forward to a little more farming and a little less logging.