06/30/2023
Welcome to my next adventure. When neighbors bring you lemons, you make lemonade!
I have been around animals as long as I can remember. I grew up on a small farm overseas, where electricity and running "city" water were unheard of. We went to a community well for water with buckets on a rope and planted crop fields with our horse. I worked on a family farm since I learned how to walk alongside parents and siblings, primarily with my hands. Hard work and sweat are engraved. We chased goats, horses; I milked a cow by hand; we had pigs and chickens. Our fridge was a seller in the ground. Our dinner was in the garden waiting to get plucked.
I was fortunate enough to get great education and hold a "big girl job" in Engineering. After years there, my farming roots kept calling.
With my best friends in hand, we started a small horse riding school in Chanhassen out of a leased farm. It really just fell in our hands. We have been horse riding for years. We boarded together. We taught our other friends to ride. Their kids only wanted to learn from us. And so the business was born. After a year and half there, we relocated to Jordan onto 12 acres where we no longer had limitations and no longer were told what we could/couldn't do on the land. We found a perfect lot North of Town with an Association which was "abandoned" as the realtor explained. For 4 years, we ran RnR Stables LLC there. The neighbors knew! The County knew! They gave us recommendations and sent disability clients through county grants programs. They all gave thumbs up for 4 years until they didn't. We found out that another type of permit was required to operate (No problem, I'll go file one.) and that type of permit was not allowed for me to pull as stated in the Association agreement, a CUP. All of a sudden our Association is active as one of my neighbors screamed over the fence. It doesn't expire until 2027. So what to do until then?
I have all this experience and love for animals with the need to put it to good use. Could YOU use it?
Here I sit looking at the calendar, seeing all these holidays coming up, wondering if I am the only one who's had a hard time finding a farm sitter in the past so I could take a 2 day vacation?.....Epiphany...If I can't work out of my land then I'll come to YOU! And, I'll bring the lemonade.
Currently, I manage nearby 800 acres with cattle and other livestock. On my own land, I have a few of my horses and close to 50 chickens. Chicken math is REAL. We used to have 2 goats until they started to eat my friends' flowers across the road. Melvin and Kevin joined the Goat Dispatch company.
Thank you for reading and supporting my new adventure! I hope we can help each other.
