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Introducing the Horses for Clean Water Film Festival
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Welcome to our special Earth Month celebration at Horses for Clean Water. In this month’s articles, you will find several ideas and ways that we horse owners can coalesce around the Earth Day theme, banding together to help take care of our beautiful blue (and horsey) planet.

First, to celebrate Earth Day, we are excited to introduce our first ever Horses for Clean Water Film Festival. Here’s how it works: we have compiled a list of short films that shed light on a variety of environmental issues. To access to our film festival just send us an email to alayne@horsesforcleanwater.com with “HCW FILM FESTIVAL” in the subject line. We will send you the list of films with their links—which we hope you’ll enjoy!

In exchange, we ask for you to donate either time or money to a cause of your choice that helps the natural world in some manner. There’s no minimum commitment and no specifications on how to do this. It’s all on the honor system. Once you’re done, just send me an email with a sentence or two about what you did—something as simple as “I donated $10 to The Nature Conservancy” or “I picked up trash along the highway in front of our property.” In a future newsletter, we’ll report back with a summary of the impacts of our concerted efforts.

If this is successful (and I bet it will be!), we’ll do it again! Feel free to send me suggestions of environmental films you’ve seen—or maybe you’ve even participated in a film production of some sort yourself. Or any other thoughts you have on this topic. We’d love to hear from you!

It’ll be fun, it’ll be easy, and we’ll experience the satisfaction of knowing that together, horse people are doing something to help our planet.

Be sure to read the article on 6 Ways for Horse Owners to Participate in Earth Day and check out our upcoming virtual classes. HCW also has new Tip Sheets available that you might want to check out.

Happy spring, happy Earth Month, and enjoy this issue!

Alayne

Header image by Shawn Hempel (Adobe Stock)

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Alayne Blickle
Alayne Blickle is a lifelong equestrian, ranch riding competitor, and the creator and director of Horses for Clean Water. Well-known for her enthusiastic, down-to-earth approach, Blickle is an educator who has worked with horse and livestock owners since 1990, teaching manure composting, pasture management, mud and dust control, water conservation, chemical use reduction, fire preparedness, and wildlife enhancement.  Blickle and her husband raise and train their mustangs and quarter horses at their eco-sensitive guest ranch, Sweet Pepper Ranch, in sunny Nampa, Idaho.
Picture of Alayne Blickle
Alayne Blickle
Alayne Blickle is a lifelong equestrian, ranch riding competitor, and the creator and director of Horses for Clean Water. Well-known for her enthusiastic, down-to-earth approach, Blickle is an educator who has worked with horse and livestock owners since 1990, teaching manure composting, pasture management, mud and dust control, water conservation, chemical use reduction, fire preparedness, and wildlife enhancement.  Blickle and her husband raise and train their mustangs and quarter horses at their eco-sensitive guest ranch, Sweet Pepper Ranch, in sunny Nampa, Idaho.

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