Hi from Maryland

I live outside Frederick, MD and I just got my first team. I am so thrilled to have gotten this far in my dream of horse-powering my farm! I got a pair of 13 hand bay ponies that are really sweet. So far, I’ve just ground driven them but I am picking up a forecart in Lancaster this week and have a driving mentor coming this weekend to help me hitch them for the first time as I couldn’t drive them before buying them. I’ve got an 85 acre farm that we just got this year as well. We are mostly still working on basic infrastructure, but have a few goats, pigs, cows, chickens, and turkeys as well as three horses. We’ve been selling some meat and eggs and are ramping that up as fast as we can. Since I also homeschool two small children, we have to be patient on the farm front. I used to do a lot of single driving and I found that transferred from my riding experience a good bit more than team driving does. I’m sure I’ll get the hang of it, and these ponies are very experienced which will help. I can tell because they relax completely when I start putting the harnesses on, in addition to their history as it was told to me. Anyway, I’ve been lurking on here for quite a while but I figured that I’d have plenty of questions now that I’ve got my team so it was time to sign up for real. Take care, Leah