Bookends Farm
Force free training for allProblem Solving for Horses in
the Northeast Kingdom of VT
I’ve been closely monitoring the news and hold health and safety as a top priority. For your convenience, safety, and to accommodate this unexpected situation, I am not currently offering riding lessons at my farm.
If you have your own horse or pony to ride, and I can maintain a safe distance following the governor’s guidelines, please contact me or use this button to sign up directly!
Please stay healthy and I look forward to seeing you.
If you have your own horse, you can trailer in or I can come to you (travel fee applies…you can gather friends, family or neighbors to split that fee). Safety is a critical factor so I do need to determine that you have both a safe horse or pony to ride and a safe area to ride in.
What will you learn? I believe in a well rounded education! Before you even climb aboard, it is important that you learn how to act around horses. I will explain how to read them so you know how to respond appropriately. Every lesson will include horse management as well as riding. Horse management includes the many many things involved in spending time with horses.
Examples are:
- grooming and tacking up
- care of the horse or pony after you ride
- communicating with the horse or pony
- safety, safety, safety
- feed, water and housing
- health care
Riding skills begin with learning how to sit in a balanced position so that you and the horse are comfortable. We will proceed at a comfortable pace to more challenging activities such increasing gaits and riding over obstacles beginning with rails on the ground. We’ll occasionally ride “in the open” (field, road) and play games!
Safety Equipment- I do require all lesson participants to wear an ASTM approved helmet, heeled boots (no lug soles) of a sturdy material (like leather) which cover the ankle and a shirt with some sleeve (short sleeve is OK, sleeveless or tank tops are not).
Please see the Pricing and Policies page for lesson rates and cancellation policies.
Bookends Farm Blog
- Introducing Enrichment
- Using Enrichment Toys to Train a Call to Barn
- Giving Instead of Taking- How to Deal with Destructive Behaviors
- Pony of the Month- A Training Plan for Too Many Horses
- Grazing Tuesdays- Managing Horse Pasture
- Anyone Else Experiencing Trigger Stacking?
- When Classical Conditioning Accidentally Goes Operant
- The Launch of Bookends Farm Academy
- Preview 30 days of Husbandry
- Training Motivation in a Wintry World
