Bramblewood Stables

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.

Before Lavender Hill, before owning the land beneath our feet, there were years spent building Bramblewood on borrowed g...
06/05/2026

Before Lavender Hill, before owning the land beneath our feet, there were years spent building Bramblewood on borrowed ground.

This week, Kim reflects on a dream, an iron gate in Tryon horse country, an eviction that changed the course of her life, and the realization that losing what felt permanent was the very thing that led her home.

"When I first hooked up with my ex-husband, the Turk, he lived on the bottom floor of a grand house with a Japanese soaking tub, an old cedar sauna, and sweeping gardens in the middle of horse country in Tryon, NC.

“Off a main road of legacy farms and rolling fields of Irish-green grasses, you reached his house by navigating a meticulously maintained dirt road flanked by even more farms and crystal clean, mountain streams. From the dirt road, a huge, iron gate marked the long driveway, passing over two bridges, to the house.

“Before I met my ex, I had dreamed about that driveway in such detail that the first time I traveled it in person, I stopped my car, got out, looked around me, and gaped in disbelief.

“I had been there before."

Read the full essay or listen to the voiceover edition of this week's Stable Roots below.

This weekend, a rain-soaked hawk landed on the arena fence post at Bramblewood Stables and watched Kim work. The hawk wa...
05/28/2026

This weekend, a rain-soaked hawk landed on the arena fence post at Bramblewood Stables and watched Kim work. The hawk was patient and still, and unbothered by the weather. It fluffed its wings out to dry.

It wasn't the first time the farm had sent Kim a message she wasn't expecting.

She writes about that hawk this week in her essay for Stable Roots — and about what's been happening to her dreams since moving to Lavender Hill, all the houses with rooms she didn't know she had and the sleep she's never been able to find before now.

This land has convinced her nervous system to finally let go.

At Bramblewood, we believe that working with horses asks something of the whole person — not just the rider, but the interior life they bring into the arena with them. Kim's writing this week goes deep into that territory with Carl Jung, the architecture of the unconscious, and the gold that's been inside us all along but too close to see in waking life.

It's a good piece to read (or listen Kim read to you) for anyone who has ever felt that horses know something about us that we don't yet know about ourselves.

Read this week's essay at Stable Roots. Link below.

I didn’t plant this. The flower grew up through the bricks on its own, a stray seed from someone’s random petunia. I’d n...
05/21/2026

I didn’t plant this.

The flower grew up through the bricks on its own, a stray seed from someone’s random petunia. I’d never choose a petunia from a garden store, but this flower is different. It’s resilient.

Our region is in the middle of a wicked drought. After my initial panic over the dry ground ran its course, I’m starting to see the lessons in the pastures. The weeds drill through the hard clay beneath the grey topsoil (topsoil is a first for me — this farm was spared the nutrient leaching of historic cotton). The grass in the fields has become brown and quiet.

And then our little pumpkin-spiced latte horse — Hero — began slipping under a fence to find a better patch of green. (He might have teleported.)

None of this looked like progress at the beginning of spring, but it was.

This week in Stable Roots, I’m writing about the difference between forcing compliance and allowing recovery. This topic works on the ground, in the horses, and in myself.

The flower in the bricks understands more than I will never know.

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