Fairy Tail Farm

08/21/2024

🤩 wow! This is all so well written. I do love seeing bitless work done with horses but I’ve been given the gift of riding some horses o my life where I truly do feel like I could tell you if the tongue was relaxed or not based on the feel of the horse in my hand- and this post by Lisa King kind of explains how that happens. Mind blown.

08/09/2024

This September we are trying out a home school group for Wednesday mornings. In traditional lesson time frames it's hard to teach kids all the amazing skills that help them become good horse people! Skills such as cleaning stalls, learning about feeding horses, leading them, and catching them from the field are often hard to incorporate into a traditional 30 minute or 1 hour lesson. We are hoping these 3 hour long group sessions will help give kids a taste for what it's like to care for a horse and we will also be teaching them to gain confidence riding using vaulting- gymnastics on horse back! I learned to ride thru vaulting and I am a huge fan of teaching kids to gain a good balance, seat, and confidence without having reins or stirrups. Riders who begin with vaulting learn to balance themselves and therefore don't use the reins(and the horse's mouth) to maintain their position. If you know of any kids or families who homeschool and may be interested in this group please let me know! We are hoping to eventually offer this class either after school hours or on a weekend to provide another chance to participate.

07/22/2024

Meet the crew!

Rio is a striking bay with white draft cross. Rio is one of the newest members of the school horse crew at Next Level and Fairy Tail Training. She enjoys dressage and doing courses of poles and small jumps.

07/22/2024

Meet the crew! This is Cookie Monster. Cookie is a spotted draft who is a trail horse and jumping whiz kid. Cookie hops on the trailer like a pro and enjoys exploring new places. We would love to find a brave kid or adult to 1/2 lease Cookie in barn so she can continue to run with her favorite herd of mares and live her best life. Buckskin paint with feathers?!? Yes please!

05/24/2024

When the hard working kid finally gets a horse of their very own😍…..

So excited to welcome Libra, a beautiful and striking liver chestnut WB mare, to the Fairy Tail crew! Congratulations Monica and Sandra on the purchase of this lovely young horse.

04/26/2024

I’m excited to announce that this coming summer I am partnering with Meg Dunne Training to run amazing summer camp opportunities for kids! This farm is in a beautiful location in Stafford, minutes from the 205. I’ll be running camps in June and August and one of Meg’s other stellar employees will be running them in July. Have questions? Feel free to ask me! There is still some availability in most weeks.

It’s (almost) camp time!
Ride, learn, craft and have so much fun!

Summer camp is from 9am-1pm Monday- Friday. Camp is $500 per week ($600 for jump camp) with $50 off per referral. A $250 deposit is due at time of sign up. You do not need riding experience, but experienced riders are welcome.

Contact
[email protected]
339-223-2356

2024 Sessions
June 17-21 (jump camp offered)
June 24-28 (jump camp offered)
July 8-13
July 15-20
August 12-16
August 19-23

04/23/2024

I think this is so important for rider’s to learn even if they aren’t working with young horses.

A ride shouldn’t have a horse in a highly engaged frame from beginning to end of ride, rather there should be periods of collecting followed by periods of stretching and the amount of time is highly dependent on the rider’s capabilities and horse’s level of training.

03/01/2024

One of our young riders enjoying our lovely school horse Scotch. Having well trained, safe, and kind lesson horses is a key to our riders developing confidence and competence.

02/18/2024

Bonnie at Jeff Cook clinic

01/19/2024

Bonnie trying to convince Cookie to come play

12/25/2023

So excited and thankful to be on this new journey with Next Level Equestrian. Incredibly thankful for getting to keep much of my old barn family together while getting to meet so many new lovely folks. These fun festive photos courtesy of the lovely Darby. Monica is responsible for the festive hats for horses and humans. Happy holidays!

12/13/2023

Excited to get back to teaching today! Meet one of the Next Level school horses, Murphy, aka Smurphy💕