Hello from Upstate New York!

Hello everyone!

I’ve recently purchased the acreage still left of the farm that I grew up on after spending nine years in Brooklyn. Having grown up around my father’s Belgians, which were used mostly for pleasure, I’m very excited to have finally purchased my own team, a pair of blue roan 50/50 Brabant/American Belgian half sisters. They’re almost a year old now, and I cannot wait until they’re a bit older and I can start doing some work with them.

Most of my experience with driving horses has been with my parents’ miniature’s & ponies (they downsized after retiring from the dairy farm). But they just don’t compare to the full sized horses.

We do a limited produce CSA that we’ll hopefully be expanding soon, have a few Nubian goats for dairy, and recently purchased our starter flock of Jacobs Sheep. I also started growing hops last year to sell and use in my homebrews. Please check out our website in my signature for more details and pictures.

My wife and I are both still working full and part-time jobs for income, but someday we hope to be able to get our income from the farm.

The Brabants have really become a passion for me. I’m an active member of the American Brabant Association, and I’m working out the details of starting a breed registry for them. If anyone has any experience with registries, or just wants to talk about Brabants in general, feel free to email me!

Looking forward to benefiting from all the great resources at this website and doing what I can to help others!