An annual event, "Plowing the Community Garden" in Wilbraham, MA,prepares 2 acres of vegetable gardens, all by horse power. Our all around best team,Danny & Dakota, on our hydr...
Our new venture, the Pony Train, is taking off! Skittles and Buttercup have the dubious job of being the locomotive for our colorful collection of train cars!
As most of you have noticed from recent posts, we have spent the last few weeks quite seriously plowing and discing, almost every day until now. Twenty - two (plus) acres have been readied for planti...
Normally, our plow first breaks the ground here around April 1st. With the weather being so uncommonly warm, however, we have been out plowing and discing for more than a week already...
I think you would be pretty hard pressed to find anyone who, at one point or the other in their lives, didnt dream of having a pony. It is funny how after years of owning big, bold, beautiful draft h...
It is late in February, but it feels like Spring. The temperatures have been in the upper 40s, some days high 50s. It has been a lousy winter for sleigh rides but a good winter for most everyth...
Yesterday, we finally had some accumulative snow. I had heard we had a little snow earlier in the week, however I had accompanied Terry to one of the big draft horse sales and missed the only snow to...
A Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Yearto all our Friends and Family!~ Elaine & Terry, Cedar Knoll FarmFor more information about our good friend and equine photographer, Tory MacDonald, or to ...
Just a few pictures from one of this weeks parades, a Baraat, and a light festival in Hartford. Tis the Season, AGAIN!
Funny how life gets in the way of documenting Life. For example, it has been two weeks since Terrys trip to North Dakota, on his quest to bring back a small herd of PMU babies for Equine Angels Rescu...
Terry teaching Jen how to drive a team of Percherons while raking corn shucks into windrows.Jens most important lesson was learning what "Whoa" means.Five of Pauls 40 horses.Horse power and f...
Terry with four of our horses today: Danny, Dakota, Cody & Sam.
This freak snow storm has created a big mess here in Connecticut, nearly as bad as Hurricane Irene did. The utility companies say over 800,000 are without power. Luckily for us, UNLIKE with Hurricane...
Two days until that fabled holiday know as All Hallows Eve, and the State of Connecticut is feeling not the wrath of wicked ghosts and goblins, but of Mother Nature! A noreaster is blowing through, b...
Its October 28th, Halloween is just around the corner, and our little corner of Connecticut looks like...Christmas??? Thats right, it snowed here last night! We are looking forward to a noreaster on ...
The babies are coming up on high yearlings soon, and we are starting to involve ourselves in more intense training with them. Yesterday we put Jessie and Gillette together, to let Gillette drag her a...
For a few years now, our good friends Diane & Jim Rockwell have organized a most enjoyable "Breakfast Wagon Train". This year, ten teams and numerous outriders took to the streets (most o...
Havent had much chance to write anything here. We are in the midst of our busiest seasons (Autumn through winter Holidays) and things wont slow down now till after the New Year. Orchard rides, weddin...
The day started off sunny and bright, but the clouds have rolled in and our bones say rain is coming. We took Diesel, Gillette and Dolly down to the back pasture and put the two fillies in an electri...
Do you enjoy keeping up with Cedar Knoll Farm, here on our blog? Want to see what we have been doing, where weve been going? What we have for sale? Well, we now have an app for that! Simply copy/past...
"Death is very likely the best invention of life. All pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important." - S...
Just a few pictures from the Orchard rides in Deep River and Glastonbury we do every weekend, including a couple of shots of some cute "hitch hikers"!
Come on over and see what we have for sale! Used harnesses, carts in all sizes and descriptions, wagons, and even horses! Visit our websites "For Sale" page and see what is here now, or give ...
Last time I looked, it was still Summer. Warm temperatures and sunny days abounded. But suddenly, Fall is upon us and our schedule went from moderate to sometimes nearly impossible. We are now at TWO...
It has been a couple of weeks since we had opportunity to post anything to this blog. Hurricane Irene wrecked havoc here on the eastern seaboard, from South Carolina all the way to Maine. We had heav...
Things have been so busy here at Cedar Knoll that, as usual, I am apologizing for not blogging! Jessie as most of you know has been "off". Although her bout with colic has come and gone witho...
There have been a few developments here at Cedar Knoll Farm, one of which is the acquisition of a phenomenal driving pony, whom we named Buttercup. Buttercups role here at Cedar Knoll will become mor...
Sunday night topped off an extremely busy four days for us here at Cedar Knoll Farm. This Pakistani Baraat ceremony took place at the Branford House, Avery Point in Groton. This Baraat was particular...
We have had record heat (as so many across the country have also had), but that hasnt stopped us from having one of the busiest weeks of the season. Baraats, weddings, and photo shoots have kept us b...
As many of you already know, Cedar Knoll participated in Horse Progress Days this year with Danny & Dakota. We had the dubious job of shuttling visitors (an estimated 16,000+ over the two days!) ...
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