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Bramblewood Stables

Visitors by appointment only. A unique urban farm offering riding lessons and human growth

With lessons offered for all ages and abilities every day throughout the week, Bramblewood is also a full boarding and training facility. ARIA certified instructors and a magical environment are just minutes away from downtown Greenville, SC.

11/20/2025

I get the irony of sharing this here—on the very platform that sent me looking for places where my words aren’t filtered through a robot’s idea of “safety.”

But I’m a sucker for a teaching moment, and this week handed me one I couldn’t ignore. So come with me into that odd little intersection where redirects, frustrations, and misunderstandings crack open a space to reclaim your voice.

11/20/2025

At Bramblewood Stables at Lavender Hill, we believe the work doesn’t stop at horsemanship. It extends into the stories we carry, the systems we navigate, and the ways we reclaim our voice when life—and technology—throws up unexpected barriers.

This week, Kim shares a new piece on Stable Roots about a recent experience with Facebook restrictions after an innocent comment to a friend was flagged by the algorithm. The situation prompted her to reflect on a much earlier moment in her life, when her teenage journal was stolen out of her first car, and how those echoes still shape her understanding of power, grounding, and resilience.

The essay explores:
• how misunderstandings and limitations can redirect us toward deeper clarity
• why grounding practices with the horses continue to be at the center of our work
• and how returning to ourselves—no matter the disruption—is a form of reclamation.

For our community, this piece is a reminder of why the fields, the herd, and the rhythm of the land remain essential to everything we do here.

You can read or listen to Kim’s full reflection below, and—through the end of the year—she’s offering a discounted subscription to Stable Roots for those who want to follow her writing and support the work at Lavender Hill.

Read or listen here:
https://stableroots.substack.com/p/flagged-stolen-and-still-not-silenced

Support the work at Stable Roots through subscriptions:
https://stableroots.substack.com/winterspecial

11/06/2025

Kim’s writing this week, From Desperation to Thanksgiving, traces the thin line between holding it all together and learning to let go. It’s about thinking everything is okay, finding out it’s not, and finding a way forward anyway—muddy boots, fallen gates, ghosts in the corners and all.

All that talk of harvests, of reaping what you sow, of seasons take on new meaning when you live them. Around this farm, the work gets done by us showing up, mending what’s come loose, and trusting that what’s been planted will keep growing.

You can read or listen on Stable Roots, and if you’re able, help us keep mending fences—literally—by supporting our GoFundMe. Every bit helps as we steady the ground beneath us and prepare for winter at Lavender Hill.

👉 Read or listen:
https://stableroots.substack.com/p/from-desperation-to-thanksgiving

👉 Support the farm:
https://gofund.me/703f1a496

10/30/2025

This week on Stable Roots, Kim Carter reflects on how a KEEP OUT sign became an unexpected invitation, how neighbors appeared at just the right moment, and how the horses at Lavender Hill continue to remind us that we don’t have to see through the forest — we only have to look far enough to see the next step.

Read (or listen) to the full piece here:

https://stableroots.substack.com/p/dont-look-too-far-into-the-woods

Help us keep building this life at Lavender Hill—for the herd, the land, and the community it continues to gather:

https://gofund.me/fd8e45844

10/23/2025

At Bramblewood Stables at Lavender Hill, our work has always been about more than horses. It’s about land, belonging, and the communities that grow when we choose to stay connected—to each other, to the animals in our care, and to the ground beneath our feet.

This week, Kim Carter shares a new Stable Roots piece, The Cost of Moving On: On land, loneliness, and crowdsourcing a farm. Written from our new home at Lavender Hill, it explores how our culture’s obsession with independence has led us toward disconnection, and why preserving public farms matters more than ever.

It’s a short, powerful read—an invitation to look deeper at how we move through the world and what we’re willing to protect.

🪶 Read or listen here:
https://stableroots.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-moving-on.

Address

649 Oaklawn Road
Simpsonville, SC
29680

Telephone

+18643633727

Website

http://www.bramblewoodstables.com/, https://stableroots.substack.com/

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