Jeff and Katie Aiken met at a riding lesson in 1983. They were married in 1984, and that same year they bought 43 acres on North Road in Tully, New York, with an old dairy barn and an even older pole barn and nothing else.

Then they started to build. Stalls in the dairy barn first, for the horses they brought along.

Then they built an outdoor riding arena, in 1991, and in 1992 they started teaching lessons. In 1994 they added lights to the outdoor arena, so they could teach lessons after dark.

But they couldn't teach when it rained, and they couldn't teach in the winter. So in 1997 they built the indoor arena. Oh, and a house.

So the lessons were dry, but the horses weren't, sometimes, in the old dairy barn. So in 2004 they built the new stall barn, which had a beautiful tack room, a real bathroom, and stalls for everybody.

But the horses had to get out of those stalls, and those stalls had to be cleaned every day, which was difficult sometimes.

So in 2009 Jeff and Katie started looking for a place to teach riding and horsemanship without so much snow. And in 2015 they found the perfect place, in Albany, Ohio.

So they moved all the school horses, and all of their stuff, to the new farm in October of 2015.

And then they started building...

And in those 23 years in between, Jeff and Katie and their horses have taught horsemanship and riding to thousands of people―children and adults, summer campers and students, Girl Scouts and home-schooled kids.