10 Minutes Well Spent
This week, we hear from Julie Kenney, an incoming member of the Best Horse Practices Summit steering committee. She lives and rides in Harpswell, Maine. Read her Focus on Fitness articles here. By Julie Kenney Recently, I read an Eclectic Horseman article titled “The Ten-Minute […]
Read more→Jeanette’s Journey Part III: Death Valley Home Stretch
Editor’s Note: In the third installment of a multi-part series, we hear from Jeanette Hayhurst, a long-time and avid horsewoman from Barstow, California. Like many of us, she has continued to connect with horses, even when her age and physical limitations kept her from doing […]
Read more→Welcome Joy Rides!
Editor’s Note: Trish Lemke is the owner-operator of Joy Rides, a Durango, Colorado company offering adventure horse travel and retreats. (If you attended the Best Horse Practices Summit, you may have met Trish. She was one of our warm, vibrant, and helpful volunteers.) In the […]
Read more→Amy Skinner Review
Debbie Hight, a Best Horse Practices Summit board member, longtime Mainer, and frequent NickerNews guest columnist, reports from a recent Amy Skinner horsemanship weekend in Norridgewock, Maine. Photos generously provided by Julie Kenney. By Debbie Hight Amy Skinner has written: If what the horse truly […]
Read more→Cowboy Poetry? Parade without Motors? Yes!
Julie Kenney traveled from Harpswell, Maine, to take in the Best Horse Practices Summit and check out southwestern Colorado. She was also a Strater Hotel guest and an awesome Summit volunteer. She filed this report as a first-time visitor to the Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering: […]
Read more→Jeanette’s Journey Part II, test drive for Danny
Editor’s Note: In the second installment of a multi-part series, we hear from Jeanette Hayhurst, a long-time and avid horsewoman from Barstow, California. Like many of us, she has continued to connect with horses, even when her age and physical limitations kept her from doing […]
Read more→Silva’s Three Sacred Cows of Horsemanship
Katrin Silva grew up riding dressage in Germany before moving to the United States at age 19 to learn to ride Western. She’s been riding both disciplines for the last twenty years. Silva has competed successfully through fourth level dressage on quarter horses, Morgans, Arabians, Hanoverians, and […]
Read more→Spoiler Alert: Amy Skinner on pitfalls for horse enablers
The horses we get in training at Bar T Horsemanship undergo considerable changes in their lives while they’re with us. They leave their normal routine to stay in a strange place with new horses and people. Not only is their environment different, but their treatment […]
Read more→Jeanette’s Journey Part I – from Riding to Mini Driving
Editor’s Note: In the first installment of a multi-part series, we hear from Jeanette Hayhurst, a long-time and avid horsewoman from Barstow, California. Like many of us, she has continued to connect with horses, even when her age and physical limitations kept her from doing […]
Read more→A Visit with Western Folklife’s Kristin Windbigler
Kristin Windbigler is the new executive director of the Western Folklife Center and the event it runs, the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. We visited with her via email about the organization and this year’s production, the 34th annual gathering which runs from January 29 to […]
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