Lending a hand

Tillers' has a wide variety of publications, products, and services to assist you.
Classes and volunteer activities build skills.

Internships

It's not as easy as it looks: a 4-H youth tries his hand at directing a young team at the County Fair.

TILLERS
INTERNATIONAL

Sharing our rural heritage with the world
for a more peaceful earth

Skills Training

Farming - Oxen - Draft Horses
Wood - Fiber
Blacksmithing - Solar

Brian Webb and John Sarge are headed back to Uganda to work with farmers returning to their land after 20 years in secured camps. Designs for stump pullers, plows, carts, and road equipment will be taken to the shops and the finished tools to the fields. Dick Roosenberg, Dave McMorrow and Midwest Ox Drovers' Vicki Solomon will join Brian, John, and Todd Whitmore in the field for ox and donkey training. You can support these farmers by purchasing an ox, donkey, plow or cart.

Historic Toolmaking has moved to September 26-27, 2008. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from master blacksmith James Slining.

See our Class Schedule for 2008 class dates

Upcoming Classes:
Farming with Oxen and Horses - June 2-6
Ox and Horse Cart Building - June 10-13
Oxen Basics - June 16-20
MODA Gathering - June 20-22

Tillers is always researching low-capital practices such as intensive rotational grazing and remote solar water pumps to complement animal-powered farming systems. Join us in combining the best of yesterday and today with strategies that can vitalize small farms around the world.

Come for a class, or just a visit.

Helping

Tillers was created to help international farmers develop their production and communities. Each class is designed to deepen the base of skills that participants take to their international rural development projects.

Tillers' specializes in hand tool work. Our classes are designed to help you build the skills to produce quality work independent of electric power.
Take a look at our special events calendar.
This team of four oxen helps with the plowing.