Monthly EVENTS
Family Play Days at the Farm
Farms aren’t just for riding lessons. There’s SO much more that we can do in the country! And with lots of outside spaces and covered play areas and fields and trees— it’s a wonderful place for children and their parents to come and spend time.
Talk to Kat about art days, horse-play days, costume fun, gardening play. Bring your ‘not quite old enough for riding lessons’ kids, or your children who love art and running and being outside— and let’s create something wonderful together.
Field Days and special events
Once upon a time children were sent outside to play in the great outdoors. At Blue River we offer families, and as the pandemic lightens up, we’ll offer school groups and corporate teams organized days of field games. Kick the Can, Capture the Flag, Mother May I--- all sorts of simple, very old games that help players MOVE. Participants get up from the couch and out from behind a desk and develop a sense of their bodies in space, they work up a sweat doing something fun and working as a team member. Get a little dirty! Bump your head! Skin a knee. This is outside play, it’s not virtual and it’s definitely going to require play clothes. Maybe even pack a change! End the field day with singing or story telling around a fire pit.
Parties and Events
Weddings
Birthdays
Dinner parties ‘under the big top’.
We’ve got a large covered arena with open sides for maximum air flow, and a large outdoor arena with nothing but airflow. Tell us what you’re up to and let’s talk about what we can dream up together.
Leadership events
This old way of working the horse was often used as an educational method for training future monarchs. You can’t bluff, buy, or bribe your way to leadership with horses. They don’t care what car you drive, or whether you have a PhD. They listen to You, how you are in the world, how you move, how you speak, who you are. Working with horses, we learn to see and appreciate ourselves. Working with horses we learn that to be a real leader means learning to listen profoundly, and to work in service of the team.
Work days
ONCE upon a time… people learned to wield tools and paint things and haul loads and clean up real messes and measure spaces and find right angles. Farms are places that demand constant upkeep, and we’ve found that many hands make not only light work, but fun work and a sense of team accomplishment.