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Welcome to horsesforcleanwater.com
Your online resource for environmentally sensitive horse keeping
Horses for Clean Water, now in its 11th year, offers ways to care for horses that improves the farm they live on and reduces non-point pollution. Techniques such as mud management and composting manure offer a way to care for animals that benefit the animals, the farm, the owner, the community and the environment - all win-win-win solutions.
The February issue of EQUUS magazine features an article by Alayne Blickle, “75 Ways to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle on the Farm” in which she highlights ideas received from readers of HCW’s electronic newsletter, The Green Horse. Check it out to see if your idea and name made the list!
EQUUS’s web site features another article by Alayne, “How Green is my Horse Farm.”
Alayne Blickle and Horses for Clean Water are featured on King County’s Yard Talk in the November 29, 2009 episode.
Here at HCW we’ve been working hard to come up with the best ways to help you have horsekeeping success. We recently worked on a few short DVD presentations and they are now becoming available for purchase through Amazon and CreateSpace.
The first DVD is Manure Management on Horse Properties. Purchase this 11 minute video from Amazon or Create space via the links here on the left.
The second DVD is Mud Management on Horse Properties. Purchase this 11 minute video from Amazon or Create space via the links here on the right.
We will post announcements as the other DVDs are released.
FREE technical assistance from Alayne Blickle of Horses for Clean Water
available for livestock owners who live in the Issaquah Creek, WA Watershed
Did you have a mud problem on your horse property last winter? Is manure piling up next to your barn? Do you have composting questions? Would you like some suggestions on where to place your sacrifice area? Are you thinking of bringing your horse home to live on your property? Wondering what kinds of footing to use in your high traffic areas? Now you can get FREE help and suggestions from Alayne Blickle of Horses for Clean Water!
Thanks to the King Conservation District and the Washington Department of Ecology, Alayne Blickle is available to horse and livestock owners residing in the Issaquah Creek Watershed to help with mud, manure, pasture and related natural resource issue questions. The goal is to reduce run off of pollutants (such as nutrients, bacteria, sediments and chemicals) that can eventually make their way into Issaquah Creek and Lake Sammamish.
Please contact Alayne to set up an appointment for free help with your livestock property if you live in Issaquah Creek Watershed, in zip code 98027 or if you live near any of these creeks:
Issaquah Creek
Tibbetts Creek
Pickering Creek
McDonald Creek
Four Creeks area
Lewis Lane Creek
If you need help determining whether you live in the Issaquah Creek Watershed feel free to contact Alayne.
This project is funded by the Washington Department of Ecology in an effort to improve water quality in the Issaquah Creek Watershed.
Gift Ideas from Horses For Clean Water
Visit the HCW CafePress store and you can order HCW products and help support our environmentally sensitive horsekeeping mission!
Need some gift ideas? Here is a way you can support a good cause AND find a fun gift item for that horsey friend or family member. Or maybe you’d just like to treat yourself!
It’ Easy Being Green Travel Mug $23.97
HCW Logo Silver Wall Clock $42.89
Horses get great grass mileage! Bumper Sticker $5.47
Alayne and Bob perform a musical freestyle to Boot Scootin Boogie at the recent NRHA competition in Wenatchee, WA.
Alayne and Bob performed this musical freestyle routine at a recent reining show to Garth Brooks’ “The Dance” in memory of their friend Pepper.
Alayne Blickle receives award from American Horse Publications
Saratoga Springs, NY is known for horses, health and history. But, in June 2008 it was also known as the site for the American Horse Publication’s annual seminar. One of the most anticipated events is the annual awards presentation. Among awards in several categories, Alayne Blickle, of Horses for Clean Water, Maple Valley, WA, was the third place winner in the category of Service to the Reader for the article she wrote for John Lyons Perfect Horse, entitled “Find Black Gold in Mount Manure!”
American Horse Publications is a non-profit association established in 1970 to promote better understanding and communications within the equine publishing industry. Its over 470 members include equine-related publications, professionals, students, organizations and businesses. American Horse Publications is the professional association to belong to for those involved in the equine publishing industry.
HCW featured on Katherine’s Horses Blog on About.com!
Polly Klein, Alayne Blickle and Patricia Cosgrove on Evening Magazine
Check out this great story about animal communicator Polly Klein of Tonglen Healing Arts for Animals. It features Alayne Blickle and HCW demonstration farmer Patricia Cosgrove.
What’s on your pet’s mind?
May 21st, 2008
If you want to know what's on your pet’s mind, there’s an Issaquah woman who claims she can tell you. We’ll put her to the pet test. Kim Holcomb explains.
HCW’s April LaLande and husband, Mike, receive accolades from King Conservation District for the environmentally sensitive care of their horse property
Our bull elk was here this morning and he left me a pretty cool gift—one of his beautiful antlers!! As I was watching him he dropped the first antler. It look like they were really bothering him a lot—you can see it in his expression of his mouth. He stayed for a while trying to get rid of the other but eventually left. I hiked around a bit but couldn’t find the second anywhere. I figured I was pretty darn lucky just to see ONE drop and get to keep it! (-:
You can see the one he dropped behind his left hind leg. You can also see the blood on his head where he lost it.
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2004, 2005 AND 2006 The Green Horse Archives now available as full color Adobe Acrobat PDFs!
Please visit the The Green Horse section of the web site to purchase the archive editions of of The Green Horse for $3.97 per issue. All proceeds go towards supporting HCW programs and projects, including future issues of The Green Horse.
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