Shinanatu Farm

06/16/2024

Thank you Cyril for the fun picture of our early morning fun before dashing off to make my flight home.

06/11/2024

Last Night's Beautiful View

05/21/2024

We are excited to announce that Tiffany McLaury will be joining us as an invitational c**t starter! Cal Middleton and Chris Tejero are returning to work under Martin Black and Dr. Steve Peters
https://youtu.be/L6nnYgqaHVQ

We have a few openings for c**ts at the Evidence-Based Horsemanship Event held at Shinanatu Farm October 12-15,2024.

Join the founders of the EBH movement, Martin Black and Dr. Steve Peters in person this October 12 - 15, 2024! This four-day event is full of in-depth inform...

05/05/2024

Shinanatu Farm Opportunity!

We are so proud of Emily and all that she has accomplished here! Emily is graduating this year!! 💕. This brings about change and exciting new adventures for her - and we couldn't be happier for her :) We are currently looking for a responsible horse crazy person willing to help during times that I travel for work. This is a small active farm with multiple opportunities to ride here, learn from some of the best in the world, Martin Black, Jim Hicks and Dr. Steve Peters...

If you are interested in more information, please send me a direct message or email me at [email protected]

Happy Sunday!

10/07/2023

Martin working with a breeding Stallion.
Steve Peters "This horse is a victim of it's own neurochemistry (testosterone intoxication). This stallion is in a much better place when this can be regulated by the handler, and much safer too.

Join us this morning for the first day of the EBH C**t Starting Event at our all day Seminar 125 at the door of 2 Columbus Drive, Brunswick Maine

A lot of learning will be happening over the next several days!

10/07/2023

Saturday Morning October 7
Doors open at 8:30 for the beginning of the EBH C**t Starting Event - starts at 9 AM. Held at 2 Columbus Drive, Brunswick Maine cost $125 for the day (c$sh at the door).

10/02/2023

This film would not have been possible without the help of so many amazing people. Thank you:→ Greg & Team at the Little Belt Cattle Company near Bozeman, Mo...

09/27/2023

THIS SUNDAY October 1 Martin Black will be at Shinanatu Farm!
Horsemanship, Stockmanship, Roping, Green Horses, Ranch Horses and more! Auditing is $40/day please bring a chair.

Begins at 9 AM located at 836 River Road Brunswick, Maine

This clinic is always packed with more golden nuggets than I can keep track of... bring a notebook.

The weeks schedule looks like this:
Sunday Begin at 9AM Horsemanship at Shinanatu Farm
Monday 9 AM at Old Crow Ranch Stockmanship
Tuesday 9AM Horsemanship Shinanatu Farm
Wednesday 9 AM at Old Crow Ranch Stockmanship

Thursday and Friday Private Sessions

Saturday Doors open at 8:30 for our EBH Seminar and C**t Starting Event

09/26/2023

Saturday - October 7, 2023 Doors open at 8:30 for an all day Evidence Based Horsemanship Seminar with Dr Peters and Martin Black and hands on horse-brain look. This will be held at 2 Columbus Drive, Brunswick, Maine. Pre-registration is required.

Sunday October 8 - Tuesday October 10 will be practical application with the c**ts. Starts at 9AM Located at Shinanatu Farm 836 River Road Brunswick Maine. Pre-registration encouraged.

Contact Kim Stone at [email protected] to register today!

09/08/2023

Day 2 with Martin Black and Dr Steve Peters
The Trail Forward Dillon, Montana

08/19/2023

Jim Hicks - Dressage Principles for the Horseman
Saturday and Sunday schedule begins at 7 with last ride at 6 pm.

07/12/2023

Its how i got started in learning something new, different than where I came from, I have never looked back. When people give you a chance take it, work for it, learn about it and allow them to help you become a better person and horseman. I return to the Great Basin every year to visit, work and ride with friends who have become an incredible part of my life.

When everyone told Kim F. Stone to give up on her horse Indy, Martin Black, a fifth generation rancher from Idaho, believed in them both.

In the photo feature “The Great Basin Buckaroos,” storyteller Kim F. Stone reflects on her time working at Alvord Ranch and documents the shifting culture of the Great Basin.

Revisit this story and contribute to its patronage campaign in the Hidden Compass Legacy Issue.

✍️ Words by Kim F. Stone
📸 Image by Kim F. Stone

09/08/2022

Trail ride 💕

01/07/2021

Yes!

I’ve been a farm hand here at Hoof and Paw for a little over a year now and I’ve learned some interesting lessons to be sure. For me, reflection is somewhat of a habit as one year closes and the next begins. Though I’m a little bit late this year, I nevertheless wanted to share some of my thoughts about working here on the farm:

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 crinkle 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.

Author — Christine Hardy

Well, that about sums it up, folks! All of the hooves and paws here at Hoof and Paw wish everyone a brilliant 2021!

12/19/2020

Cowboy and Tess were on the news tonight! So beautiful after the first snow!

10/25/2020

Check out this article in Eclectic Horseman Magazine! I had a lot of fun capturing this series of images!

Setting the Trap with Martin Black Photos by Kim Stone

This article is written for people that are familiar with roping. There is terminology that may not be familiar or entertaining to people that are not familiar with the subject. When we are talking about heeling cattle with a high percentage loop, it comes down to two different types of deliveries. You can see both of these loops thrown in high-level competitions like at the national finals rodeo. Different people may prefer one over the other, but the fact is they are both very effective. The one is generally referred to by the professionals as the scoop. The other is referred to as the trap.

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10/21/2020

We are excited to share that Jim Hicks will be coming to Maine on Dec 4, 5 & 6. For a 3 day progressive clinic. This clinic is FULL. There is auditing available $30 If you are interested in auditing please contact me for details by Direct message or email [email protected]