New Leaf LLC

07/10/2024

So I'm a little late posting pics for our week #3 intermediate camp! We've been busy...riding, jumping, barrels, trail riding, water balloon fights, jumping jumps on foot contests, handstand contests, raspberry picking, rope swing contests, kayaking and craft making!! Definitely a competitive group we have!

07/04/2024

Day 3 Advanced Riders trail ride at Patapsco with lunch at the Woodstock Inn! Everyone even got to swim with their horse!! Thank you to Jamie and Kelsey of Playtime Pastures for hosting our amazing day!! (Sorry some photos are a little grainy).

07/01/2024

Day 1 Advanced riders. Thank you to our host Lisa for the perfect off property location! Lots of great stuff today, including jumping and trot/canter sets in the field!! Weather could not have been better!!!

06/28/2024

Final beginner camp day .....was a huge success!
We started searching for horse paraphernalia in the field then worked hard getting riding ring ready, then came back to ride the "big horse" ba****ck and paint the horses!!! Then ride an obstacle course and played musical boxes, followed by a pizza lunch!
Then had a great kick ball game, river time and crafted horseshoe picture frames! God blessed us with great weather and protected all of His children this week! ♥️♥️♥️

06/27/2024

Day #4!!!!
Started with a Scavenger hunt, worked hard picking rocks out of riding ring, then had a demonstration of how to mount ba****ck from the ground. One camper succeeded! Then learned to do tricks on horseback and finished with a doubling up ba****ck trail ride! River time consisted of a " best splash off" the rope swing and their own painted rubber duck races. Finished with horse art! Phew! Blessed to have great weather this week♥️

06/26/2024

We had a busy day #3 of beginner pony camp!
Started with our toilet paper roll horse races, then pin the tail on Pippin, worked hard cleaning run- in shed, had to play paper-rock-scissors to see who was first to ride, and golf ball on a spoon riding!
Then moved on to playing football at the river as well as paddle boarding, and mud painting! Finished up the day building and painting our American flag horse jump!!!
EXHAUSTED!

06/25/2024

06/25/2024

So Beginner camp day #2!
So grateful for beautiful weather, photo dump from day # 1and #2!
Farm work, riding ponies, rope swing, kayaking, crayfish catching, making cork ponies and horses and cookie making!

05/29/2024

Still have 2 openings for beginner camp June 24-28!!!!

04/14/2024

Teamwork makes the dream work!

03/24/2024

Sometimes lazy Sunday plans spontaneously change to schooling plans. Now we have two riders that can load up on their own!

02/24/2024

Great night of ba****ck riding, tack cleaning, and goal setting to kick off the spring season! As always we love seeing our riders (and families!) work together to make our chaos a success 😃❤️

(If anyone has other pictures feel free to post, mine mostly came out blurry!)

12/22/2023

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Let your horses be horses.

Let them roll in the dirt and get muddy.

Let them bask in the warm sunlight on sunny days, sunning their coat as they nap in the dirt with friends.

Let them play with other horses, they may get the occasional nick or scratch but their mental health can remain unscathed.

Let them stretch their legs and romp across ground without being under the control of a rider, let them control their pace and buck and play.

Horses don’t care about what brand of blanket they wear, how expensive their saddle is or how neat and tidy their coat is.

They don’t care about appearances, they don’t care about monetary values, they don’t care about status…

This is a large part of why we love them so much, they don’t judge like humans do. They are so much more simple in that way.

Let your horses be horses because there is nothing more breathtaking than a happy and fulfilled horse.

Let your horses be horses and they will thank you forever and you will be able to get to know them in ways you did not know possible.

Pictured is Juniper the Mustang being a happy little swamp donkey.

07/08/2023

Week 3, day 3! Off property cross country and trail ride! Was a bit harder to get photos as we were riding too!!

07/08/2023

Week 3, day 2 mock show combined show dressage and stadium jumping.

07/07/2023

Camp week #3 our advanced riders camp! Day 1 Designing a jump course and then building it. Swimming with ponies!

07/02/2023

Week 2, photo dump, part 3!

07/02/2023

Week 2, photo dump, part 2
Special thanks to one of our camper’s dad, Mr. Bill for bring the parachute and teaching us parachute activities!

07/02/2023

Week 2 Photo dump! Part 1

06/24/2023

Week 1, day 5!! We did it! We had a great week with these kids and loved their enthusiasm!! Obstacle relay races in the misting/sprinkling rain on horse and on foot!! A different part of the creek even in the rain. Catching critters. Making horse shoe wind catchers.

06/23/2023

Week 1, day 4. Finishing & giving treats to the horses, intro to lassos & polo cross. Cleaning run in sheds and rock painting.

06/21/2023

Week 1 Day 3
How many hands tall am I?, ba****ck riding, jump pole limbo, kickball in the drizzle, horse trivia and crafts gone wild-horse treat edition!

06/21/2023

Week 1 more of day 1 and lots from day 2! Brush relay races, grooming, braiding, ba****ck day, frogs, found fly masks, crafts and more!

05/30/2023

Congratulations to the Schaeffer family on the purchase of our boy Scotch! We were so excited that he’s staying in the New Leaf family, we had to celebrate with pink hearts and sparkly hooves!

05/21/2023

Thank you Ship’s Quarters for hosting a great show for all levels! We love our little show team and their amazing families that embrace our New Leaf brand of chaos!!

05/20/2023

Teamwork makes the dream work! So thankful for a great group of kids and their families. The kids really stepped up today, running tack, holding horses, cheering each other on, and even giving a helping hand to a pony that wanted NOTHING to do with the decorative flowers!

05/20/2023

Water bottles left behind at Ship’s Quarters show!

05/04/2023

Gotta love some Aggie snuggles while waiting for the storm to pass for your riding lesson!!

04/28/2023

More important than the ribbons, these kids (and ponies!!) demonstrated good values and teamwork two weekends in a row!

01/23/2023

If we ever get snow this would be awesome to do, great project for the boys😆

Wow! 🤍🐴