Black Creek Hill Farms - Benson, NC

01/20/2025

My favorite place to be

01/19/2025

Words of truth spoken by a good friend

“Farm work doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you anything. It reveals you.

There’s gym strong and then there’s farm strong. They’re mutually exclusive.

The toughest women you’ll ever meet spend their days on a farm.

There are more uses for twine than you can possibly imagine. You can tie up a hole in a slow feeder, fashion a tail strap for a horse’s blanket, mend a broken fence and use it as a belt.

“Well that certainly didn’t go as planned,” is one thing you’ll say quite a bit.

Control is a mere illusion. The thought that you have any, at any given time, is utterly false.

Sometimes sleep is a luxury. So are lunch and dinner. And brushing your hair.

If you’ve never felt your obliques contract, then you’ve never tried stopping an overly full wheelbarrow of horse manure from tipping over sideways. Trust me, you’ll find muscles that you never knew existed on the human skeleton to prevent this from happening.

When one of the animals is ill, you’ll go to heroic lengths to minimize their discomfort.
When you lose one of them, even though you know that day is inevitable, you still feel sadness, angst and emotional pain from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. And it’s a heaviness that lingers even though you must regroup and press on.

You’ll cry a lot. But you’ll never live more fully. You’ll remain present no matter what because you must. There is no other option.

You’ll ask for so many miracles and hold out hope until the very last.

You will, at least once, face-plant in the manure pile.

You’ll find yourself saying things like, “we have maybe twenty minutes of daylight left to git ‘er done” whilst gazing up at a nonspecific place in the sky.

You’ll become weirdly obsessive about the weather.

You’ll go out in public wearing filthy clothes and smelling of dirt, sweat and p**p. People will look at you sideways and krinkle their noses but you won’t care.

Your entire day can derail within ten seconds of the rising sun.

You can wash your coveralls. They won’t look any cleaner, but they will smell much nicer.

Farm work is difficult in its simplicity.

You’ll always notice just how beautiful sunrises and sunsets really are.

Should you ever have the opportunity to work on a farm, take the chance! You will never do anything more satisfying in your entire life.

Well, that about sums it up, folks!” - unknown author

01/11/2025

ISO a mature honest person for morning barn help Monday - Friday approximately 3 hours per day.
Duties include but not limited to:
Feeding, watering and making sure buckets are clean, cleaning stalls, putting out hay as needed, turning horses out, feeding other farm animals.
Paid according to experience.
Must be able to work independently. Serious inquiries only. Anyone under the age of 18 must have a workers permit.
PM me if seriously interested.

12/25/2024

Merry Christmas from our little farm.

12/24/2024

Santa's Workshop Horse Camp was a success. I am trully blessed to be able to do what I love and share this love with others. We started by reading the Christmas story and thanking Jesus for being the best present ever. The kids learned about how to groom their horse and saddle up. The learned to safely walk their horse through obstacles and then rode the same obstacles from the saddle. They just soak up everything with so much passion.
I was blessed to have amazing helpers. They came early to help feed and do barn chores then stayed to help.with camp. I could not do all of this without them. My heart is full and thankful tonight.

12/09/2024

ISO beginner broke horse for 14 yr old for Christmas. Preferably under 15 years old and up to date on vaccines, teeth, Coggins and farrier. Local to us is preferable since it is a Christmas present

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our customers, friends and family. We are blessed and thankful for each and everyone one of you. We are always thankful for God's blessings and pray you are blessed financially, physically, and most of all spirituality.

11/12/2024

More pictures from Veterans Day Camp. We learned about the horses that fought along side of our soldiers and how they played an important role in our freedom.
Kids learned how we take care of the horses before they ride. There were friendships made and stories to tell. My heart is full of joy and gratitude for everyone who came and especially for those who helped make this day possible

11/12/2024

More pictures from yesterday's Veterans Day camp.
Riding horses and Tulip the bucking barrel was a big hit.

11/12/2024

11/12/2024

Celebrating Veterans Day was so much fun with these kids. More pics to come