Page under development- How did Green Horse come to be:

I have always been enchanted by horses since I was a little girl growing up on a cattle/grain ranch in Iowa.  I started out with an ornery Shetland pony that made her goal unloading me in many creative ways!  My desire to have a partnership and best friend never faltered, I began riding quarter horses at a young age and learned from anyone that would give me the time of day about horsemanship, training and care.  I began an exciting show career, and never saw a day that i did not learn something from being around horses.  Their beauty, intelligence and forgiving nature still felt magical to me.  I say forgiving because the current natural horsemanship trend had not taken off yet-in the 80's the old cowboy ways of force were the norm, I did not know the natural training methods i do now. Now that I know a much better way, I  must ask forgiveness to my past old horse friends for my ignorance as a youth rider.  I enjoyed showing in disciplines from western horsemanship,showmanship,halter,pleasure,equitation,trail,western riding, winning state,national and world titles, but something was missing.....   I turned my sights to reining, when most females did not show in this event, and certainly not a youth , I loved bucking the norm!  I fell for reining with an old buckskin gelding that had more Mojo than I could imagine, his slides and spins wowed the crowd, we had a a great time, raising eyebrows all the way!

This horse was trained roughly, but had the natural desire reiners dream of, after a bit of re-training with gentle horsemanship we became an unbeatable team.  I felt this 17 year old horse was not fulfilling his potential, so we continued with my natural/gentle guidance and started entering every event and becoming the IBHA hi-point youth and IBHA wold champions in 6 events.  You can teach an old dog new tricks and this one taught me many lessons about heart, partnership and Love.

 

 My pure love of horses fueled my desire to use better,safer,natural products on my horses.  The options were few, and many did not live up to their label claims and effective natural options did not exist, this left me searching for answers.  So, being the tenacious girl I am, I decided to start making what i needed/wanted for  my horses.  Why not?  i have the will and i know their must be a better way-so my quest began!

 

Today with family and work, my horse dreams are scaled down, but no less ambitious.  I am always eager to further my horsmanship skills and strengthen the partnership I have with my horses.   No truer words have been spoken than the old horsemans'(womans') saying "You will never stop learning something new from horses every day".  In March of 2010, I was just preparing to launch Green Horse Organics when I got the shocking news from my Doctor, "You have cancer".  Well many things happened really fast, your senses go numb, then you kinda crash and burn.  My horses were always there when I just couldn't face any more Doctor appointments or depressing conversations about "it".   The feel and smell of a horse is a beautiful thing.  I needed their pure Power and calming energy, I needed to rub some of it off onto myself.  After the surgery and radiation, i felt weak, my riding mojo was zapped, I was at rock bottom. 

more to come......