We had a visit from Irma over the last two days. We were told by the weather forecasters repeatedly that we were going to see a couple of...

I have another item to add to the “things no one told me” list when it comes to running a farm. I knew that horses loved to get sick or...

(post by Jason) Each year we have some new clients that allow us the honour of transitioning their horses from whatever sort of life they...

Every now and again I think to myself that it would be nice to have a shop full of new, matching farm tools and an equipment shed full of...

Jason and I have been boarding retired horses for almost a decade. One conclusion that we have come to through the years is that many of...

In our last post I was all excited about avoiding any participation in some marriage building exercises around the farm. As always our...

It is never leading to good things when someone starts a conversation with the question “what kind of mood are you in?” This was the...

We are contacted several times per week by people who want – or at least think they want- to have a business similar to ours. It is no...

A question that we are asked regularly is for recommendations for commercial shippers. Many of our residents are from outside our local...

This brief article and illustration, titled “One Horse, One Week of Injections” was in the New York Times recently. The original article...

We have told many stories of the pony wars that have happened here throughout the years. The mares like to stake their claim on a pony...

I’m not trying to brag but Jason and I truly are an endless source of entertainment at times, and we manage to do this without even...

We have lots of interesting things going on around the farm these days and I have plenty of topics I would like to write about. ...

I had a conversation with someone today who is in the initial stage of retiring their horse. Right now they are still in what I refer to...

I was reading Funder’s blog this evening and as always got a laugh out of her posts. She mentioned about the crazy things you can find...

There is so much to love about the stories of Justin and Boo, not the least of which is that their owner, a very remarkable young lady,...

I just got done reading a series of books by Roger Welsch which were recommended to me by one of our regular blog readers. The series was...

Melissa attended a clinic at Southern Promise Farms, Triune, TN which began early Saturday morning. In order to get her there on time we...

The weekend was mostly uneventful. I was certainly busy enough with fairly mundane tasks like refilling salt holders and updating feed...

This will be a short post as I’m tired, it is getting late, and I still have to tuck in the world’s cutest fainting goats and make out my...