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It Takes A Village
Written By: Sue Blair - Carpe Diem Farms | Issue: September 2024
Carpe Diem Farms is built upon the respect, compassion, and gentle wisdom at the heart of the human-equine relationship.
Not just a sentiment at Carpe Diem Farms, it is how we have existed and persevered since our 501(c)(3) was filed and granted in 1990.
Our beginnings humble – two horses, magnificent Morgans, Gracie and Delta, gifts from Joyce Foster – fulfilled on the mission to “empower the human potential through equines.” It would take the efforts of many in 1997 to secure and purchase the place we have built and call home. One gift at a time.
Today, as we continue our work, one person or one group at a time with the seven horses who now make up our herd, we continue to honor and use the lessons learned from the 17 equines at final rest in our cemetery. They continue to be remembered for their contributions, their life lessons, and their selfless gifts they shared with all who have come through our gate.
Without the help and generosity of individual donors, volunteers, staff, and local grant-making organizations we would have great difficulty continuing. It is so, for our most recent grant from Mountain Findings, Inc. They have just funded a matching grant for Carpe Diem Farms and the Boys and Girls Club of the Plateau.
Their generosity has provided for the hay shipment which will feed the horses through the winter and into next Spring. As you are experiencing in your own budgets the cost of what we need and getting it here have gone up exponentially! We purchase a semi-truck of orchard grass annually to keep the herd healthy. It arrived on one day and our grant arrived the next. Blessings do abound in our little village.
Summer programming and activities are complete, Fall after school plans are underway, the hay is in the barn, the horses are beginning to grow their winter coats and Jack Frost will be here before we know it painting the leaves for another spectacular fall display.
From all of us at Carpe Diem Farms may you and your families have a blessed Fall.
