Facilities

From shelters to arenas, the facilities we use can make or break our efforts to create an environmentally friendly horse property. Whether you’re building a new property or improving an exisiting one, use these resources to create a space that benefits you, your horse, and the natural world around you.

Tourists and visitors appreciate the quality of life agricultural producers lead—as well as the fact that these open spaces protect wildlife habitat and enhance water quality. With a little "outside the box" thinking, you can find ways to create extra income from your eco-sensitive, "green" horse property.

Have you wondered if there’s something more you can do with your farm or small acreage, something innovative and fun, that might help with a little extra income? If so, then you might be interested in agritourism, ecotourism or geotourism, a key focus of a Horses for Clean Water event in early May in Snoqualmie, WA.

If you live in a climate that often leaves you dealing with icy conditions on your horse property, here are some ice-busting tips to help keep you and your horses safe.

Winter weather can create wildly varied scenarios, some of which leave you with more work than you can possibly handle. Save moving, there are some ‘weather fixes’ that can help keep wind and snow at bay and make life more comfortable for you and your animals, as well as make your farm more productive.

Exercise is always a challenge during the winter. Just having a good place for horses to roll (snow, an indoor arena, a round pen, a soft paddock) can help. Rolling alleviates boredom, relieves tension, is a social behavior, and can stretch and align the muscles of a horse's back and hindquarters.
Let's take a look at some of the pre-construction considerations that influence the decision to build an indoor arena.