Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
Jim Shaul, co-owner of Shaul Farms in Fultonham, stands in front of a cornfield being irrigated. Irrigation pumps use about $500 of diesel fuel per day to draw water from the Schoharie Creek.
