Welcome!
We are committed to encouraging the art of working horses whether it is on the ground, riding, driving, or farm work. Our relationship-based methods use natural horsemanship and are influenced by Parrelli methodology. We can help you get started on your horse journey, understand and solve issues with a problem horse, take your horsemanship to the next level, start something new with your horse, compete, and build your own horse-powered farm. We teach you the understanding and skills you need to train your own horse and be successful in any direction you want to go.
Mission
Wild Heritage Farm is a horse powered farm focused on providing the community with healthy nutritious food grown sustainably and helping people be safe and successful with their horses whether they want to enjoy trail riding, competing, or starting their own horse-powered farm.
Heritage breeds and crops
Preserving rare and endangered breeds and seeds
Wild Oregon horses
Saving seed
Organic practice (non-certified)
Sustainable, regenerative cycle
Relationship and community based and focused
Diverse small-scale communities
Want Healthy Food?
Check out nourishing healthy food here.
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Farm Products:
Want Healthy Food?
More and more we find out that the normal food we buy from the grocery store is unhealthy, disease-inducing, and even poisonous. As you learn more you try to become conscious and seek out healthier food. This isn't an easy task. Words like organic, natural, healthy, and sustainable are used everywhere and it is no longer clear what exactly they mean. You see these words printed on food packages of brands you know are a problem.
Are you tired of finding out more ways that the food available to buy is bad for you?
We believe that instead of finding cures to illness after they have become prevalent (at tremendous cost and hurt) it is better to eliminate the source of the illness. So many of the health problems that have become so common are caused by unhealthy food. That is why we are committed to food grown naturally to keep the people eating it healthy.
Wild Heritage Farm's mission is to renew the local community by providing healthy, nourishing food and
Farming for the Future
Unlike the mega farms found today whose sole purpose is to maximize profits, Wild Heritage Farm is a community-scale farm working for the future by being conscious about the choices and actions of today.
Mono crops and over-selected breeds threaten the existence of the multipurpose heritage breeds and crops.
Heritage breeds and crops
Preserving rare and endangered breeds and seeds
Three of the four horses powering our farm are Kiger Mustangs from Oregon’s wild horse herds. They were brought to North America by Spaniards around the 17th century. These small horses have big hearts and have evolved to survive. The three mares are Rubi, Hidalga, and Oriana. Wesson, the forth horse, is a Paint and a gelding.
Saving seed
Organic practice (non-certified)
Sustainable, regenerative cycle
Relationship and community based and focused
Diverse small-scale communities
We are all about sustainability and full circle / closed loop / regenerative cycle. We make some of our own hay to feed the animals (we are working to increase the amount we make versus buy). The animals create manure which we spread on the fields to provide the nutrients that the plants need.
Our animals have happy, natural lives and they raise their own young. We save our own seeds. Seeds adapt to our climate, become more drought resistant (dry farming). We preserve heritage and multipurpose strains and would like to get ancient strains.
Diversity benefits the farm as a complete cycle with each part supporting the rest. For example the horses graze a field and the goats clear out weeds the horses don’t eat which would otherwise take over. The chickens scratch through the manure and eat insects that bother the animals and crops. The horses power equipment that spreads manure on the field to feed the grass for the next year and they mow and rake the grass to make hay.
Mono crops and over-selected breeds threaten the existence of the multipurpose heritage breeds and crops.
Heritage breeds and crops
Preserving rare and endangered breeds and seeds
Saving seed
Organic practice (non-certified)
Sustainable, regenerative cycle