Throwback Thursday: Little Bea & the Tea on My Tagline

Written By Alexandra Mackenzie Doan

This sticker is one of my favorite photos of little Bea Buckley and my lesson mare Apple – this photo taken about 17 years ago!  Moose Ridge Farm was about 4 years old then and I was busy every afternoon teaching kids, running Horses & Art camps in the summers and organizing Horsie Movie Nights on the weekends. How special it is to look back and see the amazing spirit, creativity, and the connections with and through animals that evolved with this beautiful community we have built here at MRF.

My slogan that accompanied this photo was:

BUILD CONFIDENCE WITH HORSES

That’s a what I’ve always believed in. I had 3 reliable mounts a mini and a enormous gentle Dressage horse for the more advanced riders (and Bea eventually graduated to riding him). It was my horses that built confidence. Lucky and Apple then Pedro tested them a bit as he was the slightly cheeky one. But my job was to make sure the kids learned proper skills and listened to their horses, I believe that riding is a two-way street and since starting the positive reinforcement training incorporating it into the program things started to evolve and now my slogan is BUILD CONFIDENCE IN YOU AND IN YOUR HORSE !!!

If you’re interested, you’re invited to schedule a lesson and stay and grow with us.

P.S. Stay tuned for more updates on Bea, she’s all grown up now and as the resident barn manager, she is a very important part of our team!

Alexandra Mackenzie Doan

Positively Reinforcing good horse and dog behavior

Moose Ridge Farm is located in Lincolnville, Maine just 15 minutes from the coast. A small Dressage Barn where ground work and under saddle work come together to create deeper understanding between horse and rider through clicker training. The horses are able to move around 24/7 in paddocks adjoining their stalls and in the fields. There is a lovely sunny indoor arena, heated tack room and warm water in the wash stall. Horses are given hay 4x day and stalls are fluffy. Alexandra has been clicker training horses for 23 years - her personal horses, her boarders and her riding students. She loves putting the puzzle pieces of animal behavior and training of equines and canines together, not only worki.n with the animals but also coaching the humans. Dog classes, though new to the farm, are not new to her. She grew up with dogs and cats, has raised 3 dogs the past 25 years and is a true animal lover. Positive Reinforcement training is fun and encourages kind, clear communication within boundaries.

https://www.mooseridgefarm.com
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