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Tuesday 7am - 8pm Wednesday 7am - 8pm Thursday 7am - 8pm Friday 7am - 8pm Saturday 7am - 7pm

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Stepping Stone Farm LLC

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Stepping Stone Farm LLC

Stepping Stone Farm is a full service equine facility located in Carmel, Maine Our lessons are extremely comparable in pricing and we teach ages from 4 up.

Stepping Stone Farm is a full service equine facility conveniently located in Carmel, Maine. Stepping Stone is owned and operated by Kris Nicola, a horsewoman of over 60 years. Kris has a strong pony club background and keeps the pony club safety standards in all of her lessons and horse work. She has worked with all different breeds of horses (and was even raised riding donkeys, mules, and someti

mes cows!) and people of all ages and cultures. Kris offers both English and Western lessons, but the main focus of Stepping Stone is eventing. We offer private and group lessons, as well as clinics with other instructors and one clinic in both spring and fall with two instructors. Stepping Stone has both an indoor and outdoor arena that is larger than standard size, access to miles of trails and there is even a cross country course less than 10 minutes away! We have several pastures and paddocks, a 22 stall barn with three tack rooms and two floors for hay storage. Stepping Stone offers full board, including grain, hay, your choice of a large or small stall, pasturing, worming, and blanketing depending on weather. We have a farrier that comes in every other week and your horse can be added to the rotation, or you can use a farrier of your own choice. Stepping Stone competes heavily, eventing all through Maine. On quiet weekends, our riders can be found doing trail rides with T.R.O.T. or traveling around the state to expose our horses and riders to various things.

01/23/2025

A message for Rikki’s students:

From now through to March, I am going to be discontinuing regularly scheduled lessons and instead will be teaching as weather allows. I will reach out to riders and post announcements when lessons will be available!

This will alleviate my guilt on canceling due to cold, allow my horses some time to relax, and I’ll be able to get out on the ice (in our heated shack) with Aj before he heads back to work!

February seems like a great time to take a bit of a break before we get back to it in full swing ❄️

01/17/2025

Here is a link to the New England Working Equitation website, where you can find information about the discipline, membership, and opportunities to compete. The site also has information about the clinician, Stephanie Hayes, and other helpful links and resources!

We are looking forward to trying something new and hope to have you join us at the clinic in May, whether you’re auditing or in the saddle!

While Working Equitation is a well-known discipline in Europe, it is growing popularity in the United States. Working Equitation was founded in Portugal, Spain, France and Italy, but quickly expanded to many countries around the world. The discipline of Working Equitation was created to promote th....

01/16/2025

⭐️Clinic Dates⭐️

May 3: Working Equitation with Stephanie Hayes
June 7: Versatility with Sherrye Trafton

More info to come 🥳

01/13/2025

A few pretty ponies today 🥰

01/02/2025

✨ 2025 ✨

12/31/2024

The last day of 2024 sure was a busy one with 15 horses worked; 1 trailered in and the other 14 were from our 16 horse herd! 🥳

12/28/2024

We are looking into hosting a working equitation clinic in either February or April; we need a minimum of 12 riders and payment ($150) is required at sign up. Who is interested?! Trying to see if we have enough interest to secure a date!

12/17/2024

We’ll have to ask Annie for confirmation, but Bosco’s biggest accomplishment for the year may have been the moment Rory trusted him to babysit!

We want to know - what was your biggest accomplishment, or what are you most proud of, for 2024?

12/08/2024

Temps look reasonable this week and Rikki has some openings for lessons! Reach out to her directly to get on her schedule 🥳

12/01/2024

Cant get enough of the dogs around here 💁🏻‍♀️

(actually we can, please refrain from bringing your dogs with you as ours can be a little selective about who they’re friends with and they WILL jump on your vehicle while deciding)

Address

287 Cook Road
Carmel, ME
04419

Opening Hours

Tuesday	7am - 8pm
Wednesday	7am - 8pm
Thursday	7am - 8pm
Friday	7am - 8pm
Saturday	7am - 7pm

Telephone

(207) 848-5310

Website

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Videos

11/26

The girls worked hard in their lesson tonight and got to finish out their ride with some bareback beebopping 🥳🤩

Fawn had her second lesson today and it was phenomenal!

Goose is, clearly, the MVP 🤣

11/18/24

Sully and Goose worked through the grid!

Golden hour farmhouse cartwheels 🤩

Chacha

Kris and ChaCha had a great time at the Infinity 2 Phase today!

Saturday was spent with our horses in the Carmel Days Parade, followed by the drill team demonstration. Our riders have put in a lot of time working toward this - here is a short clip of the performance!

We have immediate openings for full board! Large and small stalls available. Please call Kris for more information at 207-848-5310.

A snow day walk through ❄️❤️

Thank you to everyone that came to the show today, from the riders and spectators to the volunteers and judge! We had a great day and I think our riders all had a fantastic time. We will be having a two phase here October 13 that will be followed by our annual Hat and Mitten trail ride (date to come!). We may try to squeeze in a “Masters Competition,” a show for those 40+, but a date for that hasn’t been determined. Here is a fun clip of Ada and Chime in their 2’ jump round from today!

Here is Kris and Chris (of JCB Horse Sales) doing the pair jumping class at Springfield Fair!

Here are our "barn" cats, Lincoln and Levi, playing today!