The Livestock Breeds Conservancy's annual meeting in Williamsburg is wrapping up today. Yesterday I had a great time learning about poultry health, black soldier flies and seeing the debut of Krista Rutherford's informative film on mustang conservation, "America's Forgotten Horse."
Friday we hosted a day long series of clinics and demos that featured our non traditional efforts to expose more people to nearly extinct strains of Colonial
Spanish Horses. "Education, Entertainment, and Public Service to Promote Heritage Livestock" focused on our programs progression from being a place to learn to ride to being an educational, cultural institution that teaches natural horsemanship, history, livestock breed conservation, regenerative agriculture, biological farming, equine based therapeutic and personal growth programs, music, and animal husbandry.
We raise yesterday's horse's for tomorrow's riders. And we use yesterday's horses to shape tomorrow's teachers, tomorrow's healer's, tomorrow's parents, tomorrow's community leaders,
We do not live in the past. We do not worship inflated ideas of uniformly heroic and virtuous ancestors. We recognize their horrible flaws for what they were.
And without missing a beat we work hard to take everything that was good and beautiful from our past and apply it to today's world.
And one of the best and most beautiful things from our past are the nearly extinct Colonial Spanish Horses, particularly the Bankers, Marsh Tackys and Choctaws. And our horse lot is a living museum. And our pastures are laboratories. And our trails are classrooms. And our tack shed porch is a music conservatory. And our round pen is a place of healing.
....and our animals are antiques.
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