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Thank you! We are so excited you found us!

Sally Ann Cheyne

Hello! We receive a TON of inquiries - reaching out through all the fancy phone and computer ways and that is SO EXCITING! But I’m not doing a great job responding. So here is the Top Ten list I want you all to know…

  • 1: Thank you for the inquiry! I’m so happy you found us!

  • 2: Cheyne Ranch our home. We live here, this is our home on 5 acres, these are our personal animals, who are also part of our family. We are a family of 6 (now 7!), dad, mom + 4! homeschooled teenagers + an awesome bonus kid.

Cheyne Ranch is a passion project. It has evolved over the past 8 years from creating a place for our 4 children to grow up, to building a barn to take care of a couple retired horses, to welcoming a special needs adult class to our barn once a week, to now we operate as a full time education and therapy barn.

  • 3: I’m difficult to reach: I (Sally) am the main instructor, the curriculum designer, the business administrator, the complaints & billing department, the failing accountant, the volunteer coordinator, employee manager, the haaaaaay manager, feed manager, scheduler, the website designer, and I really really am not good at getting on the phone. I’m SO MUCH better at email and text. Although sometimes texts get lost 85 messages down. Emails are easier to manage believe it or not. Actually…

  • 4: IN-PERSON is the BEST way to see our location, meet our animals, meet a few of our workers, is to schedule a Family Visit.

    We don’t charge an annual registration fee or orientation fee, so family visits are required for first time guests before you can secure a spot on our lesson schedule.

    Family visits serve a way to see where we are, who we are, how we are - an orientation, a safety briefing, and just a great way to spend time together with our animals. Family visits are just you and your kids! (and any other adults you want to bring).

    Family visits are a total of $50 for the first 2 kids (adults are free) and can be scheduled online Family Visits — Cheyne Ranch

  • 5: LESSONS, CLASSES & CAMPS!! (Our programs generally sell out)

    • 🦄 FULL Classes, the following classes are full for FALL 2024:

    • 🤠 AVAILABLE Classes!

      • 🤠 Wednesday AM Equine Bridges - this is a mini Nature Club - but has a group therapy approach with our amazing Mental Health therapist intern, Karah. This is a passion project for us and gets to the heart of why we work so hard to share all this with our community.

      • 🤠 Wednesday PM Afterschool Nature club. What is up with these openings? I think it has something to do with most of our previous students aging up into middle school ( I'm not getting older - just they are, I'm not crying - you're crying.).

      • 🤠 (Adaptive) Horseback riding lessons & PALS: There a few spots remaining - we offer lessons Mon / Wed / Fri morning & afterschool. Friday evenings & Saturday mornings are full:) We follow an amazing mounted & unmounted curriculum, we document each lesson, and our instructors all have over 1,000 hours of training, and are in current lessons for their advanced selves ;) Ask me what adaptive means. 🤠

  • 6: AGES:

  1. YOUNG KIDS: As much as we LOVE babies, toddlers & preschoolers, currently the only classes for little tiny people is PALS or a Family Visits! We have plans for future classes - but not quite yet.

  2. ELEMENTARY AGE KIDS: About 60% of the kids in our Cheyne Ranch programs are between the ages of 6 - 12. We love the elementary & middle school age kids. What a great time to help kids learn about compassion, responsibility, practice a little work ethic and succeed at pushing through hard things! There is so much to learn here.

  3. TEENAGERS: We love teenagers! The Cheyne Family has 5! teenagers. Whew. Yes, you read that right. You will see most of them here working with us. We do try and put our teenage students’ horseback riding lessons and PALS on Friday evenings. But you will also find teen students & volunteers here on Monday & Wednesday evenings, as well as Saturday mornings.

  4. ADULTS: Adults come here too! We have 2! different classes of special needs adults who have regularly scheduled programs. We are also happy to teach adults with special needs PALS or horseback riding lessons.

  • 8: SOCIAL MEDIA: I don’t visit social media much these days (see point 3 - ha!) but I certainly attempt to post important and sometimes entertaining stuff. Please follow us to learn about all the latest happenings:

  • 9: CALENDAR: Our lessons run on a 3 semester calendar and that calendar is published here!

    • Fall - 16 weeks

    • Spring - 16 weeks

    • Summer - 8 weeks

  • 10: Join us! or contact us! or checkout our Amazon wishlist! or lots of things - but this is only a Top 10 and we have reached the end:

  1. Still have questions? No problem! Please see my contact info below. I do love talking about Cheyne Ranch.

  2. 🤠There are 2 next steps, the recommended order is… it depends:

Thank you for reading this far! We do love our community so much.

Sally Ann Cheyne

Founder & President 

Cheyne Ranch, Inc.

nonprofit 501(c)(3)

Located in Oviedo, FL

 

Call / Text: (407) 205-7744 

email: Sally@CheyneRanch.com

Website: www.CheyneRanch.com

Facebook: facebook.com/CheyneRanch

Instagram: instagram.com/CheyneRanch

Cheyne Ranch is a nonprofit that provides a safe, inclusive and accessible way for people of all abilities to learn about animal care & connections.

We serve our local community through providing scholarships to our lesson programs, caring for the many farm animals that have been donated to us, and advocating for inclusive, accessible experiences for all individuals. Please donate and help us with our mission: chra.us/give