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Carpe Diem Farms
Written By: Sue Blair - Carpe Diem Farms | Issue: 2018/08 - August
It was another exciting time at Carpe Diem Farms when the The Kelsey Kids summer camp program came to the farm.
This was the fifth year we’ve had the pleasure of hosting an afternoon of the camp at CDF. The Highlands Historical Society conducts a week-long camp to teach children what it was like in the early days of Highlands. They have a wide variety of programs and activities throughout the week.
Carpe Diem is home to “Cora’s Cabin.” In 2007 we purchased the former one-room school house (1882-1926) turned cabin, took it down board by board and reconstructed it in its current location on Stewart Cove Branch. It had been purchased by Bert and Cora Holcomb of Clarkesville, Georgia, in 1939 and it was owned and enjoyed by generations of Holcomb’s until 2005 when the land upon which it was located, directly across the street from the Shortoff Baptist Church, was sold to the Highlands-Cashiers Hospital by the Holcomb’s. Bert and Cora’s grandson, Randy Holcomb, maintained the rights to take down the cabin with plans to move it to Clarkesville. Instead, we moved it to Carpe Diem.
The children had an opportunity to tour the cabin and learn about its history as one of the seven original one-room school houses. Following the tour they headed to the stables for activities with the equines. Several of the children had never been up close and personal with a horse, so they were all given an opportunity to groom one of the farm’s nine horses and then learn the pattern used for barrel racing by leading a horse through the pattern.
All the children had an opportunity to give the horses their favorite treat, puffy peppermints, before they completed their time on the farm and boarded their bus to town. It is always a delight to have the opportunity to introduce children to the horses, the farm and experience a slower pace – a little step back in time.
Carpe Diem Farms is a 501(c)(3) experiential educational foundation committed to Exploring the Human Potential
Through Equines.
