Chestershire Farms, LLC

06/30/2024

Schutzhund Blind- have used just a handful of times. Just collecting dust now 😂!
Priced at $150.00 OBO -great condition, pick up. You can buy new for $199.00. Located in Michigan.

Description Per original website ad:
“This 7' tall, extra heavy-duty blind is made from a heavy rubberized material and is absolutely the best blind on the market. You never have to worry about the wind or decoy knocking the blind over.
Features collapsible, take-down metal support poles and two eye holes at the top so that the decoy can see when the dog is coming without having to put his head outside of the blind.”

06/30/2024

Board your horse or lease facility. Not ready to build your own place? Here’s a great opportunity for the right person as a trainer building your business! Lease price is for equestrian, stabling, and arena area only… We live here, our 🏡 home is not for lease!

Quiet, private farm in Manchester, Mi with the following amenities:
Indoor dressage arena with mirrors and kick walls, size approx 140x65 (limestone base with 2NS sand)… stabling attached with 2 (potentially 4)stalls available, wash bay and a separate grooming area. Ample storage: tack room, feed room, hay and straw area. Observation room with 2-way mirrors and Kitchenette (not pictured) with optional use of human training equipment (treadmill and bow flex). Additional stabling at shedrow (6 stalls) or run-in type w/ shared turnouts (2) allowing 2 per turnout. We do have a grassed over full size outdoor dressage ring as well.

We are at 25+ years of ownership. We are a LLC and have operated a full equine business here for years! We know the cost of overhead and have great sources for feeds/hay/straw, etc.

Located in Manchester Mi. We have Lessons / training / horse leases available for boarders too, if not leasing as a trainer. Those options will vary by needs and can be discussed by ☎️(734)637-9698. Please leave a message if you get my voicemail as I am very busy!

Utilities will be lessees responsibility or shared if you are boarding as self-care by stall. Best to discuss this.
As the owner here, we will do snow removal and lawn care. Repairs that your horses damage(be it yours or your clients) can be done by us for additional fees.
Insurance for lessees must be carried!
Self-care board is an option for boarders(that’s you providing all feeds, bedding, and cleaning and letting your horse out). We have many training tools here for disciplines in dressage and jumping so ask questions if you do not have these tools.
Turnouts are by the stabling areas. Tours are by appointment only.

Prices:
$850/month main arena barn stall.
$650/month shedrow stall
Above are with rotational turnout time in groups and full care. Round bale hay is used in winter if weather permits on outdoor turnouts.

Prices Self-care:
$750/month main arena barn stall self care.
$575/month shedrow stall self care.
Above are with rotational turnout time in groups.
$500/month per horse shared run-in type small paddocks (2 per paddock/runin) per horse self care.

$3,500/month lease the entire stabling at arena barn(shedrow not included).
$2,500/month share arena barn stabling area and get 2 stalls, and another 2 stalls at shed-row.
Utilities full responsibility of lessee. Feed/bedding/insurance/etc full responsibility if lessee. Typical down payments to a lease do apply. Lease options are for arena barn and stabling area only. We live on the premises and our home 🏡 is not for lease!

***We have started the interview process for the rightly matched candidate(s) and tours. Call or message if you are looking to move.
***References/background/credit check required.

06/18/2024

Find us on Nextdoor neighborhood

05/11/2024

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04/08/2024

This is worth thinking about....❤

03/16/2024

Richard Gere - Gere bought his Appy, Drukpa, sight unseen after a friend’s recommendation just before filming Sommersby. The 8-year-old gelding had previously been used as a turnback horse at the rodeos held in Saratoga, New York. Drukpa was Gere’s first horse.

“I brought him down to Virginia where we were shooting. The production had built a Civil War-era town in the middle of a national forest, complete with fields and a stable. So, I just left Drukpa in the paddock there. When I had a 10-minute break, I just saddled him up and took off! It was a perfect situation.”

Drukpa and Richard became lifelong pals after that trip.

“This big Appy follows me around like a dog,” he said during an interview. “First horses are like your first girlfriend. You never forget.”

02/27/2024

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What a wonderful fence!

Photo Daily Dose of Happy

01/25/2024

Is 2024 time for a clover lawn? I can add a few more positives to this too...It is fantastic for bees, can be grown as an excellent cover crop, like white clover, bacteria in the nodules on red clover roots convert nitrogen from the air into nitrates. These stored nitrates are released to the companion plants and following crops through root decay and the new roots and nodules that grow to replace them! 😍

01/17/2024

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Wattle weaving has been used for centuries to create sturdy, beautiful structures. By intertwining flexible branches or twigs, primarily from willow or hazel, you can create a durable and aesthetically pleasing raised garden bed. Materials Needed Flexible branches or twigs (willow or hazel are ideal...

01/09/2024

A brilliant little chart that could help you with succession-sowing this year! The tip on using radish seeds mixed with carrots and parsnips is clever, too. The quick-germinating radishes will help you see where the slower-germinating carrots and parsnips are planted. Plus you'll get an extra crop in the same space ✌💚

10/15/2023

If you have acorns, plant them. Sowing them thick is not wasting them. An oak hedge like this is fine Winter browse for deer. If you don't have equipment to prepare the ground, tillers and sprayers can be rented, or site preparation can be hired.

09/30/2023

09/24/2023

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08/24/2023

This is mullein. Specifically, a second-year plant.

Mullein is a biennial, meaning it grows for two years. The first year, it is a wide rosette of soft, fuzzy leaves. The second year, it starts as a rosette, but soon grows this tall stalk in the center...which produces small yellow flowers and seeds.

The entire plant is medicinal -- leaves, flowers, roots. Only leaves are available commercially.

The leaves are excellent for respiratory support. They make a nice tea (but strain through cheesecloth to remove the tiny hairs!), or can be added to a tincture or syrup. Coughs, colds, sore throats...really respiratory need, and mullein is your ally. (Pairs well with wild cherry bark, elderberry, pleurisy root, for lung needs. With astragalus root and echinacea for general immune support.)

Leaves can also be steeped in olive oil or your favorite liquid oil and strained, and used for earaches. (Try crushing a few cloves of fresh garlic + a mullein leaf or two in the oil...very good ear remedy.)

The roots -- I haven't worked with them directly -- can help to soothe slipped discs and other injuries in the back. Steep in oil and apply topically for this use.

Mullein often grows in rocky soil, or along the edges or creeks or streams. The plant here, we found growing at the edge of the woods, and my 10-year-old dug it up and transplanted it to our garden in the spring. It's thriving where it is.

Harvest the leaves throughout the season, "cut and come again" style. Dry them on a flat, breathable surface or in a dehydrator on low. Crumble the dried leaves and keep them in a mason jar for later use.

If you find some -- take some home! Consider growing it (it's not hard to grow, but the plants do take a bit to germinate and start off very tiny, so be patient). Or you can purchase from reputable herbal stores. It's a fairly common, inexpensive herb.

08/20/2023

discern the difference

between making a living

and making a killing

life sustains life

don't get it twisted

a decent living is made up of bountiful harvests and backyard bonfires,

of secret recipes passed down from your grandmothers;

of earthy dreams that shake you and wake you in a sweat,

and of long nights singing lullabies to get the baby to bed

it's made up of heavy tears

that fall all the way down

to the bottom of a feeling,

and of the arms that hold you

when you can no longer hold yourself.

a living is the barbed blackberry bramble

you keep cutting back,

who returns to you

over and over;

bearing fruit and whispering: "sister....persist."

and the tragic flaw

of the human species

is those that would kill

to make a killing

and still wonder why,

with their pockets so full,

their hearts feel so empty.

thing is--

you can ask any river or tree;

ask wolf or salmon--

they'll tell you:

true wealth is not measured in

gold,

or possession of land,

or power over others

but in a community that needs you,

that you need in return

so when I tell you

I want to make a decent living,

you can assume that I mean

living decently

and reweaving a world that includes

joyful men,

inviolable women

the sanctity of childhood

full bellies all around

clear rivers running free

relationships rooted in reciprocity

and that vision

isn't an easy one to carry

all the way to its fruition.

it's quite possibly impossible,

if you believe in the myths of patriarchy;

but as natural born heretic

i don't

still

until the desire

to make a living

quells the desire

to make a killing

none of us

will ever

know true wealth

~ Iris Eve, True Wealth
Iris Eve
Wild Woman Magic
http://www.wildwomanmagic.com

Art: Tijana Lukovic, “Lammas”

https://www.tijanadraws.com/

07/22/2023

Make it while rhubarb is in season!

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06/14/2023

Love our clover 🍀 patches in our yarden!

The Cult of the Lawn.
Lawns became a “thing” in the 16th and 17th centuries, a way for the upper classes to show off…a demonstration of their dominance, that they had the resources to create ornamental gardens around their homes. Resources included bucket loads of servants who used sickles and scissors to maintain the short grass carpets. These short areas of grass were kept for games such as lawn tennis and croquet. And drinking tea.
Then, with the invention of the lawnmower, the middle classes made an effort to emulate the posh people by keeping a lawn. A demonstration that they had more than enough land , that they did not need to grow food on every last inch of it.
They had made it.
My lawn is self willed and it’s community is decided by the land here. I am addicted to lying in it because the honey smell of the clover (native to Ireland) makes everything better in my world. It’s intoxicating and hopping with pollinators.
How anyone would think a toxic bowling green lawn is better than this needs to wake up and smell the honey.
It’s time to let go of all those colonial underpinnings…a new world beckons.
Next weeks article in the is all about lawns. With providing the photos x

03/07/2023

At CSF we are opening up to a few boarders this spring of 2023.
Please email or call for your appointment to tour farm or further details to discuss your horses needs: [email protected], or 734-637-9698, messenger is ok too.

The following board slots are opened:

2-24 hour turnout spots at shedrow with own turnout side by side and run-in stall situation for shelter.

2-Arena barn boarders.

We have indoor arena adjacent to shedrow and attached to arena barn.