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Horses and Homesteading

I have been horse crazy since I can remember! Just the smell of them has always been intoxicating to me. When I was a kid, I could spot a horse far in the distance and would dream of riding it and galloping across the pasture as one with the horse. When I was 14 I finally had saved up enough money by very hard work, to buy my first horse. I knew nothing except what I had read in every single horse book I could get my hands on. I practically memorized every book and whenever I could get a new one I would read it cover to cover. I read all the books in our small library that had anything to do with horses. Everyone I'm sure thought I was quite nuts. Buts for some reason I couldn't help it. That's all I could think about every waking second of the day. My first horse was the best first horse an inexperienced kid could have. He was an old, worn out ex-cart horse with saddle sores on his back and a tumor on his shoulder. But he had the heart of a saint and he endured my very l

Why I became a Therapeutic Riding Instructor! :-)

Natural Grasshopper control.

Many people ask us what we use to help keep the grasshoppers in check with our huge garden. It is difficult because we don't want to put the chickens there for fear of them eating the garden. We discovered something called Nolo Bait a few years ago and although it doesn't completely get rid of the grasshoppers it sure puts a huge dent in their population and we totally recommend it and use it every year. Here is a link to it if you are interested in purchasing it.