StoryTeller Farms

04/25/2024

Yes❤️

01/15/2024

Nuno Oliveira:
"I know two types of riders. The first ones, although sometimes being skillful people, work their horses mechanically and use them as tools. Fortunately, there’s another category, and to be honest, less numerous: those who love their horses and are able to safeguard, in the most complete looseness, their natural expressiveness. The first group of riders are not necessarily less skillful than the second ones and are able to take the lead in some competition categories. The second group of riders, cursed poets of this Art, sometimes appear even ridiculous in the eyes of those who do not perceive the subtlety of their ideas. **However, these are the last riders who will enjoy the real joy of feeling under them a horse that moves with pleasure, without contractions, not as a slave but as a friend.” 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

12/26/2023

My Friends, the Binningers (Hannah Ogden Binninger, Clem Binninger, Flora Binninger, and Jon) lost all their tack in a barn fire on Christmas Eve…let’s help them out in replacing their tack….🎁 They make GREAT coffee. Please contribute (since we all know coffee addicts or are caffeine addicts ourselves ☕️☕️❤️

I think we all have a good need for more coffee for the upcoming New Year right!?? I think so…..so please place your order here:

A coffee roastery in Troy, Idaho, founded in 1998. Landgrove Coffee offers direct trade, fair trade and organic products working with coffee producers in Guatemala, Peru, Brazil, Honduras, Ethiopia, Kenya, Costa Rica, and Sumatra.

11/29/2023

4yr old Ampere x Florencio. Can’t wait to start this one!

08/04/2023

Currently on the Inspection tour August-September. Hope to see some of our great Oldenburg Breeders soon!

08/03/2023

Just a thought to remember…..

05/28/2023

Sunday morning kitty snuggles 🥰🐴🐴

05/28/2023

This is what 28 looks like ❤️ Love this mare 🥰

05/02/2023

03/15/2023

Hahahaha

03/14/2023

Lucero and Fawn 🦄🐴Water training!! 🤣💦💦

03/03/2023

"Don’t present things that are too hard to learn, don’t be arrogant. Allow the horse to learn in his own way. This takes discipline and maybe that will be the hardest thing for you. When you’re riding, try to do more by doing less and less. You have to be on the spot every moment because that’s where the horse is. Don’t worry, he’ll teach you if you let him. Fix it up and let it work. Turning loose means that when you reach for him, he softens. That goes for you too. It should be like silk all the way," he says, then turns his horse to go. He pauses. "It’s hard to teach what I’ve been talking about all week because the first thing you need to know is the last thing you’ll learn. But I can tell you this: when you get to square ten, all of square one will be in it." - Ray Hunt.

Ray's quote is from an article called ' Ray Hunt: The Cowboy Sage' written by Gretel Ehrlich which appeared in the Shambhala Sun, July 1998 - http://www.shambhalasun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1991

Image of Ray is by Ron Volmershausen and was taken in Branxton, NSW, Australia.

03/02/2023

Miss Dixie 🐴💕🦄😁

02/27/2023

This looks yummy

02/26/2023

Seems right ….lol 🐴🙌🏻👌🏻

02/01/2023

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02/01/2023

Ray Hunt used to read this poem at the start of his Horsemanship Clinics.

The Man in the Glass (Anonymous)

When you get what you want in your struggle for self,

And the world makes you king for a day,

Just go to the mirror and look at yourself,

And see what that man has to say.

For it isn't your father or mother or wife,

Whose judgment upon you must pass.

The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life,

Is the one staring back from the glass.

You may be like Jack Horner and chisel a plum,

And think you're a wonderful guy.

But the man in the glass says you're only a bum,

If you can't look him straight in the eye.

He's the fellow to please - never mind all the rest,

For he's with you clear to the end.

And you've passed your most dangerous, difficult test,

If the man in the glass is your friend.

You may fool the whole world down the pathway of years,

And get pats on the back as you pass.

But your final reward will be heartache and tears,

If you've cheated the man in the glass.

01/16/2023