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The Saddlehouse: November 2024
A monthly letter about what's happening behind the scenes at Ranchlands.
March 2024 Updates: In the Cusp of Winter's End
We all think about the future in one way or another. We think about it because we wonder about it, worry about it or dream about it. Regardless, do we...
February 2024 Updates: What if...
I was recently digging around in a stack of papers in a closet, when I found several essays that I wrote in the first two years of moving onto the...
January 2024 Updates: Spring Time is Coming
We have been out in the fields first thing in the mornings, removing burdock that is sprouting up throughout the fields, a tenacious encroaching plant with Velcro seeds that stick...
December 2023 Updates: About Land
I want to find a way to experience land in a way that makes me feel that I belong to it, instead of it belonging to me.
November 2023 Updates: A Trial of Giving Thanks
I sit alone on my couch in the wee, dark hours of the morning, not long after we were notified that our lease agreements for the Chico will not be...
October 2023 Updates: My Boy, Jam
Jam. A fitting name for him. He gets into jams all the time. Mostly because of his unbridled instinct. A woman from NYC—new to the ranch—stood looking at him in...
September 2023 Updates
Horses. They’ve been at the center of my life since I was born. They have been what puts flesh around my dreams. I have chosen to live on ranches because...
June 2023 Updates
This month I’ve been reading two great books, Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West by Christopher Knowlton and Built To Move by Kelly Starrett and Juliet Starrett. The keen insights into ranching...