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What is Outdoor Farm Adventures?!

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Ages 2- 4 years old

A pre-school age enrichment program for kids who love animals and nature that will foster their independence and curiosity as they get down and dirty on the farm!

This all outdoors class is the perfect class for children who love the outdoors or whose parents are not comfortable with being in an indoor class at this time. Each week students will get down and dirty on the farm with sensory bins, animal meet and greets, games, story time around the fire, and so much more! Please dress appropriately for the weather.

Double J Riding Club is excited to announce that many of our beloved Homeschool Classes will now be offered during the After School hours and over the Weekend. For more information, pricing, and to sign up, head to https://doublejriding.wpengine.com/farm-classes/ .

With the placing of Reserve Championship for both our Middle and Upper School teams this weekend at Camelot Farms, both of Double J Riding Club’s Interscholastic Equestrian Teams have qualified for Regionals this winter. Along with our Middle and Upper School teams a handful of riders qualified for Regionals individually. We can not be more proud of our IEA team and all the work they have put in this year!

2020 Summer Intermediate/ Advance Horse Camps!

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Open to Intermediate and Advance Riders only. This 4 day, 5 hour long day camp is filled with everything an experience horse lover would dream of including;

• A full 45 minute riding lesson everyday practicing different riding skills such as flatwork, obstacles, jumping, and dressage.
• Gymkhana Day: Games on horseback. Riders are broken into teams and participate in games such as keyhole, relay races, flag race, egg and spoon, hot potato and musical horses
• Hands on grooming and tacking station, where riders can groom and tack the horse they will be riding
• Advanced horse lessons such as different horse feedings, tack, first aid, clipping, lunging, etc.
• Make homemade horse cookies
• A variety of fun horse crafts
• Learn all about Breeds and Colors
• Learning parts of a horse while finger painting and bathing a horse
• Horse games, scavenger hunts and much more!

Campers bring their own snack, lunch and plenty to drink.

Weeklong Camps

Monday-Thursday

Ages 8-15

11 am – 4 pm

$375 per week

Intermediate Camps

(must know how to walk, trot and canter and have taken a minimum of 3 months of weekly riding lessons)

Week 1: June 22nd- 25th

Week 2: July 13th-16th

Week 3: August 3rd- 6th

Day Camps: $95 per Camper

June 26th

July 17th

August 7th

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Advance Camps

(must know how to walk, trot and canter in a group setting and be going over jumps in weekly lessons)

Week 1: June 29nd- July 2nd

Week 2: July 20th- 23rd

Week 3: August 10th- 13th

Day Camps: $95 per Camper

July 3rd

July 24th

August 14th

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A Few Things to Keep In Mind:

• Please make sure your child qualifies before registering for an intermediate or advance camp. If you register for an inappropriate level camp we will contact you and unregister your child.
• Due to staffing commitments there are no refunds after 14 days prior to camp start date
• Camps will be limited to 5 riders per week
• Camps fill quickly, so register early!
• Sorry no makeups for missed days
• Please, drive slowly through our neighborhood, children are at play
• Before and After Care is available beginning at 8 am and ending at 5 pm

Dear Double J Friends,

We are into our third week of our social distancing/stay at home effort and we are still trying to adjust to a new way of life.  We have been trying hard to keep connected by using Facebook Live, every day, in hopes of giving everyone a little bit of “Double J” love.  While we’re grateful for our health and those of our staff, there are still feelings of loss associated with this isolation. We certainly miss our students, but agree that everyone’s health is the priority.

As I write this update, I have to express how blessed and grateful we are for all of the love and support from so many of our current and past customers and friends. Daily, we hear from so many people expressing how much they love Double J and what it has meant to them to be part of our community.

 “We can’t thank you enough for the joy you bring to our daughter”;  “Thank you for making such a difference in our daughters life”; “The community you have created for your riders is phenomenal”;  “Sending positive thoughts and good wishes”.

These are just some of the personal and uplifting messages we have been receiving.  To all of those people and those of you not mentioned, we appreciate you and are sincerely grateful.

Even though our doors are closed, our hard working animal caregivers are still here, making sure our animals are well fed and exercised.  This presents us with an extremely challenging situation as the cost of feeding and care of our animals without income is insurmountable. In order to overcome this problem, we have come up with a few ways you can help.

Sponsorship – Double J is running a sponsorship program to help subsidize feeding all of our animals.  You can choose your favorite horse, goat, sheep, chinchilla, guinea pig or other animal. Even Butters is available for sponsorship!!  You will receive a sponsorship certificate, animal photos and more. Not only do these help us tremendously, but they make great gifts (for Easter or Birthday) too!!  No matter how large or small your budget is, there is an animal that can be sponsored.

Sponsorship Link: https://doublejridingclubstore.square.site/s/search?q=sponsorship

Food/Scrap Drop-off – We are happy to take donations of food or food scraps of vegetables and fruits for the small animals.  We have set up a large cooler by the front door of the farm house. Any food/food scraps can be dropped off in the cooler. These are used to feed the pigs, ducks, chickens, rabbits, goats, tortoises and many indoor animals.

Horse Cookies – Our horses (and even the other farm animals) love these!!  If you are looking for a fun way to connect with the farm animals why not bake them some cookies.  You can drop them off at the farm house in the cooler by the front door. We will then deliver them to the horses during our Facebook live sessions.  If you leave a letter of who the cookies were made from, we are happy to share during the daily live session.

We’re also working hard on keeping connected with all of our customers through our Facebook Page, as I mentioned, we are doing a Facebook Live tour every day.  In addition, we are now offering some great classes on Zoom. We encourage you to check those out! Beginning soon, we will also be sending out some riding e-lessons.  Rest assured, we are working hard here to make sure you can stay connected, in any way we can. If you have any additional suggestions on what we could do, please reach out. We would love to hear from you.

Class Signup Link: https://doublejriding.wpengine.com/event/learning-at-home-schedule/

Hopefully this will give you some ideas on how you can help during the shutdown.  Again, we are so grateful for any way you can contribute. Have a blessed Easter.

Thanks from all of us at Double J.

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Hello! Butters the Barn Cat here, speaking on behalf of the Double J Riding Club, on account of the fact that no one knows more about what’s going on around here better than I do. I’m so knowledgeable about every aspect of this farm that I taught a portion of our home school equine science class last week. (BTW, it’s never too late to register for any of home school classes for a prorated tuition).

We have a fun fairy garden workshop coming up on January 25th from 10-noon. Each participant will create their own tiny world to take home (while enjoying light snacks and beverages) and finish up the event with a farm tour. Register now, spots are limited. The link to sign up is below.

Join us for horse or animal adventure camp on on President’s Day, February 17th, from 10-3 (with available before and after care). If they have half as much fun as they did in camp this Monday it will be a real hoot! We will keep your kids engaged, get them some fresh air and exercise as well as sneaking in some education. They will love it! You can find more info below. 

Tiny Animal Adventure and Junior Farmer classes are learning all about nocturnal animals this week. Which is definitely me as I like to get a good 10 hour nap in during the day.

Parents’ Night Out is very popular here at the farm, but Parents’ Night Out on Valentine’s Day is BEYOND popular, so sign up now to ensure your kids get a spot. They will play games, meet the animals, make crafts, eat a great dinner and make new friends from 6-9pm. This event is perfect for ages 4-12 years old. I hear down the grapevine there is also one coming up this Friday, January 24th. Link below. 

This weekend I was introduced to some new furry and not so furry friends. My friends list is getting pretty large and now I can add a snake, blue tongue skink, skinny pig, rooster, rats and water turtles to the list! Stop by one of our classes and I bet you will get to meet them! Turns out the less fur they have the sweeter they get.

That’s it for me this week, until we speak again, don’t let anyone touch your belly,  

Butters the Barn Cat