Alayne Blickle

Natural Horse Property

Put native plants, birds, and bats to work on your horse property to nurture the land, and help control insects and rodents. | MORE

Install Horse-Stall Mats

By Alayne Blickle

Enhance your horse’s hoof health and reduce your bedding needs by installing stall mats. Here’s how. | MORE

How to compost horse manure

By Alayne Blickle

Composting horse manure is the easy, practical and environmentally sound solution to your growing manure-pile problem. | MORE

How Green is Your Horse Farm?

By Alayne Blickle

These simple and environmentally-friendly horsekeeping practices can bring your farm into harmony with the land. | MORE

Nature-scaping

By Alayne Blickle

Did you know that there are a great many wonderful ways that plants and animals can actually work for you on a horse property? Douglas fir trees, willows, | MORE

Conserve Clean Farm Water

By Alayne Blickle

These days, there is lots of talk about being environmentally sensitive. Maybe you conserve farm water, are driving less and walking more, composting manure, and using a worm | MORE

Reducing Horse Bedding Use in Barns

By Alayne Blickle

Using less bedding for your horse stall in your barn will save you time and money. Less horse bedding use means cleaning horse stalls will be easier and | MORE

Prepare Your Horse Farm for Winter

By Alayne Blickle

The winter season is difficult for most horse owners. A little preparation on your horse ranch can go a long way toward making it easier to face the | MORE

Composting Controls Horse Manure

By Alayne Blickle

If you care for horses on your own property, then at some point you have probably wondered what to do with that huge mound of horse manure piling | MORE