Horse Tours & Hikes
Farm animals on zoom
Want to liven up your online zoom business meeting or family gathering? Have one of our farm animals join your group!
Every day
Daylight hours – all day Wednesday through Sunday
Insider access online
Get the behind-the-scenes scoop on our farm from the comfort of your home
On demand access to exclusive footage and updates, including infrared night cam footage
Experience our friendly curious black beauties. Learn about rare Arabian horses when we introduce you to each horse, sharing their unique personalities. Must be reserved in advance.
1 hour – available daily
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Photography Walk To Meet Friendly Horses & Donkey In Meadow
Take a scenic walk through our hilly pasture to meet the rare, rescued and retired horses and donkey. Get some gentle exercise, spot some wildlife, giggle about long furry donkey ears and pet some horses.
1 hour – available daily
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Scenic Hike With Horses
Take a guided hike of our breathtakingly beautiful farm with our horses. Must be reserved in advance.
1 hour – available daily
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Moonlight Scenic Hike To Visit The Horses
Take a moonlight scenic guided hike on our breathtakingly beautiful farm to visit our horses and donkey in the field. Must be reserved in advance.
1 hour – limited availability
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All of our lessons and experiences conform to current PA Covid19 guidelines. We ask that guests arrive no more than 15 minutes early, stay no longer than 15 minutes past the end of your activity, and stay in the barnyard area.
All of our lessons and experiences conform to current PA Covid19 guidelines. See pa.gov for details. We ask that guests arrive no more than 15 minutes early, stay no longer than 15 minutes past the end of your activity, and stay in the barnyard area.
Horsemanship: the study of all skills related to horses. A true horseman learns much more than simply riding. A true horseman learns the care of horses, riding, training, equipment use, and horse psychology.
Conscious horsemanship is horsemanship that follows similar rules as healthy human relationships.
- Both partners have the right to say “yes” “no” or “maybe” to requests.
- Both partners have the right to safe boundaries and personal space.
- Both partners respect that there are differences in culture and language, and work together to bridge that gap.
- Horses in conscious partnerships become willing partners and volunteers.
- Conscious horsemanship often develops into liberty work, bridleless riding and more.
(Read more about Conscious Horsemanship here.)
Carrie Eastman was drawn to animals and healing at a very young age, when a family friend shared her knowledge of Reiki, Touch for Health, and nutrition. From the time she could toddle, Eastman thought all kids got muscled tested, supplemented, and taken to the chiropractor for injuries. She carried crystals home in her lunch box, spent hours in the woods, helped her dad garden, and had a variety of pets, from dogs and cats to fish, guinea pigs, rabbits, and snakes. She started riding horses during elementary school, learning hunt seat and training-level dressage at Connecticut’s New Canaan Mounted Troop and Ox Ridge Hunt Club. In high school she drifted away from her Eastern medicine roots and embraced the more conventional Western medicine approaches to animal health, while staying Eastern herself. Losing her horse Buck to a horrible colic nudged her back toward the Eastern medicine path for her animals.
Carrie graduated from Penn State in 1990 with an honors B.S. in wildlife science and additional focused coursework in horse production and crop and soil sciences. In the early 1990s her horse Poco developed navicular disease, ringbone, and arthritis at the age of twelve, and he was put out to pasture for full retirement. In desperation she turned to homeopathy and nutrition, and two years later Poco was again happy and healthy. Poco then gave her a wonderful case of whiplash during a trail ride, which led her to a chiropractor that practiced bio energy work, who in turn led her to Dr. Regan Golob. Dr. Golob developed the Bio-Energy Analysis Technique, which combines acupressure, craniosacral therapies, chiropractic, reflex points, applied kinesiology, Bio Energetic Synchronization Technique, defense physiology, and other modalities into a powerful system that frees the body to heal itself. Carrie apprenticed under Golob and became a student of TTEAM and TTouch, while also getting her Level I Centered Riding certification.
Her horsemanship mentors and teachers include Ward Studebaker, Centered Riding® Instructors Saundra Cabell and Robin Brueckman, Tom and Martha Shires (Canadian Olympic Equestrian Team), TTEAM® Instructors Copper Love and Debbie Potts, Kim Walnes and her stallion Gideon, and Tanya Bevilacqua of Mindfully Mounted and Fit. Her best teachers have been the horses themselves.
All of our lessons and experiences conform to current PA Covid19 guidelines. Please follow safe distancing and current mask guidelines. See pa.gov for details. Groups are limited to one family or quarantine group. For Covid19 and liability insurance reasons, we ask that guests arrive no more than 15 minutes early, stay no longer than 15 minutes past the end of your activity, and stay in the barnyard area, a safe distance from other guest groups.