Category: Farms Archives

Gravel: The simple solution that is “not simple.”   After one of our wettest, muckiest winters on record, Marylanders are girding their loins for an equally mucky wet spring. Many horse farm owners are looking for simple solutions to that perennial scourge of scourges: mud. Deep boot-sucking, tractor-sucking, soul-sucking mud anywhere the horses congregate; mud that sucks off shoes, twists stifles and destroys any hope of future pasture. One seemingly simple solution is to just throw some gravel down, and the local gravel pits tell us that their phones hum this time of the year with requests from farmers...