Nature CLUBS!

August 2023 - May 2024

Want to register? Start here: Interest List

Nature Clubs & **NEW** Farmyard Explorers club at Cheyne Ranch!

  • WHO: Age 5 - 11

  • WHAT: We will progress through a curriculum of barn skills, our focus is safety, animal health, cleaning, feeding, grooming, basic animal anatomy & first-aid and ground work with horses. While we are doing this - we are building a community of students connected to each other!

  • BENEFITS: We get to learn important life skills while hanging out in the barn with animals! Every session we practice skills which incorporate:

    • self-awareness & social skills

    • self-control & emotional regulation

    • increased knowledge of our natural world and the animals that we love


More Details:

  • Please bring:

    • Closed toed shoes or Boots (or I have kids sizes to borrow, please ask me about the size availability)

    • Lunch and snacks for eating at our playground & picnic tables

    • Refillable water bottle (filtered cold water available to refill)

    • Clothes that can get dirty or messy.

  • Fine Print:

    • Signed waiver required by start of first day

    • Cheyne Ranch does not offer horses / ponies for individuals β€œto ride.” We groom, walk, wash, love-on the ponies and other animals.


    This is small group outdoor social time at its best!

Please NOTE: this is not horseback riding lessons. As part of our animal, barn and nature skill building, we may go on a hand-led pony / nature walk occasionally, but we will not be learning mounted riding skills. For horseback riding lessons, please refer to our horseback riding page.

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