Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Strolling Of The Heifers 2008

A light-hearted take on Spain’s Running Of The Bulls, this is an event that most would simply refer to as “The Cow Parade” in Brattleboro, VT. But that’s certainly not all – this event is designed to be cute and fun, but it’s also a powerful force for aiding local agriculture and education, raising funds and promoting awareness. With each year having an appropriate theme, the message for the seventh annual Strolling is “Live Green!” Helen Robb (a local dairy farmer who helped establish the parade and festival) explained this year’s motif: “We chose ‘Live Green!’ as the theme for this year’s agricultural celebration because when it comes to slowing down global climate change, we’ve all got to do our part,” Robb stated. “With roughly 40,000 attendees each year, the parade and festival offer an unparalleled opportunity to help people embrace the lifestyle changes needed to preserve the environment for future generations."

And of course, there are cows in Leis! Enjoy the pictures…



Not so real cows...



The Pooper Scoopers, a super hero squad dedicated to eradicating bovine dookie!


Local Schools/Children's Organizations

Best Of The Rest




1 comment:

Unknown said...

Juano, Great job on the blog and awesome photos of the Cow Parade taken in Brattleboro, VT! It looked like a good time! It was udderly ridiculous as my husband and I were traveling 91 South, I was mooo-ved into laughter when he asked me if that was a Cow's butt in front of us. As we steered along side of it, we were utterly impressed to see the Turkey Hill Cow from that very same parade. Very amoosing! Phyllis