The Wicked Woods

The Wicked Woods Story

Decades in the making, it has been a dream of our family's to have our horses at home and to build an educational equestrian program unlike most in the surrounding area. Starting in 2021, with an empty 10 acre plot of land, we have built not only our personal forever home, but the forever home for our horses. After getting all of our must-have facilities in place (horse shelters, pastures, arena, and tack house), and developing a rhythm for farm management, we are finally ready to open our doors to students for riding and horsemanship lessons.

Like any grand adventure, The Wicked Woods dream started long before 2021, a small ember as I rode and showed my horse Dante (under the show name Wicked), and worked on various horse farms around the country, growing into a wildfire. I started riding in 1997 and purchased my first horse in 1998 from a woman I still refer to as my second mother. I spent years at the same lesson facility, learning to feed and care for the horses, just as intensely as I learned to ride the horses. That experience instilled a holistic approach to horsemanship that I wish to pass on to future horse-people. As I moved from Colorado to Florida, and then to Ohio, I have taken the opportunity to grow an learn from each person I've encountered, good and bad, and have built my dream around the beliefs that have grown from those experiences. Our horses have free access to pasture, hay, and water, twice daily grain, and full turnout with shelter - you won't find a box stall here. We put in an arena with safe footing that is groomed regularly, and a tack house is available for storage of all the stuff that comes along with horses.

The Wicked Woods is an inclusive facility that will aid all horse crazy people in finding a way to keep these animals in their lives. We have flexible lesson plans, work exchange, lease options, and community outreach programs to ensure that anyone who wants to learn to ride and care for horses, will be given that opportunity.