If you have horses, then you have to put up with muck, right? Wrong! Make your place healthier for horses, reduce the pest insect population, help your property become more productive during the growing season, AND make it a chore-efficient place for you to manage.

Please join us on Saturday, November 17th from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. to hear Alayne Blickle, the creator and director of Horses for Clean Water, speak about horse property designs; mud, manure, and drainage management; and footing.

See healthy horse shelters with great ventilation, large mud-free turnouts with sand piles for rolling in, shaping of land for drainage, fencing to protect trees, people pass-throughs, a horse urinal with wood chips, composting in small compost barrels, winter horse pasture management—and more!

If you have horses or other livestock then you have mud, right? Wrong! There are many useful ways to manage mud and runoff on your property. This winter, make your place chore-efficient and healthier for your horses, other livestock, and the environment! 

Learn what you can do now to reduce mud, manage manure and prepare pastures for winter.

Join Tualatin Soil and Water Conservation District and Alayne Blickle of Horses for Clean Water for a FREE WORKSHOP about managing mud, manure, and pastures - along with horse health! Workshop topics will include mud, manure, and drainage management; winter horse pasture management; and winter health care for horses.

Winterizing your horse property before the winter winds howl and the snow flies will help ease you through a chore-efficient winter. Looking at things like mud management, drainage, and horsekeeping practices NOW, while there's still time to make changes, will be so helpful.

Learn how to set up a track paddock and what to keep in mind when doing so. Keep confinement areas interesting for your horses—and chore efficient for you!​​​​​​​

Learn how to manage horses and grazing to prevent obesity and other health issues. Make changes now so your pastures can become more productive and your horses healthier! This workshop will cover basic techniques for good pasture management, including understanding how grasses grow, creating a winter paddock, liming, spreading compost, and more!

Learn how to reduce chemical use on your property while making it healthier for livestock, people, and wildlife! This workshop will cover mud management, least toxic and natural pest control, odor control, water conservation, on-farm recycling, and pollinator hedgerows.

Join Alayne Blickle of Horses for Clean Water at her 10-acre horse property to learn about mud/dust control, manure composting, pasture management, track paddocks, confinement area management, wildlife enhancement, drought-tolerant native landscaping and more!

Are weeds or flies a problem on your horse or livestock property? Join the King Conservation District and Alayne Blickle of Horses for Clean Water for a look at eco-friendly, least-toxic ways to manage weeds, bugs, and odors. Make your place nicer for you, your horses, and the natural world, too! Join us for light dinner, snacks, and helpful education. 

Join us at Canter Creek Farm to see how this landowner simplified her life and laid out her chore-efficiency plans for her two-horse, two-goat, four-acre property. Some of the super simple techniques you’ll see include low-maintenance fencing, composting, hay storage, mud management, bedding reduction and more!

Join Alayne Blickle of Horses for Clean Water and farm owners Lori Nevin and Jeffery Harr as we observe the horse and land management practices on this 6-acre horse property. We will discuss ways to reduce mud, compost horse manure, keep pastures productive, reduce flies, reduce chemical use—and more!

When wildfires happen, swift action needs to be taken to reduce the chance of lost animals and property damage. This presentation will help you identify wildfire risks around your horse property, learn appropriate measures to minimize that risk, and plan for evacuation should the danger of wildfire arise.

So you want to build a riding arena? What considerations are there beyond how big to make it and the location? Join us in this workshop at Two Cedars Farm to discuss those considerations, regulations, and resources, and learn how to make the right choices for you, your horses, your land, and your natural resources.

Start the grazing season out right by learning about pasture management, effective irrigation, composting horse manure, fly predators for fly control—and more!  Join the farm owners and educator/horse owner Alayne Blickle of Horses for Clean Water to learn the basics managing horse properties with a least-toxic approach.

Learn how to compost horse manure; this presentation will help you make your place healthier for horses, reduce the insect population, get your pastures more productive during the growing season.

Springtime is the right time to get going on pastures. But where to start? Join Horses for Clean Water in this presentation to learn the top seven tips for good pasture management.

This online workshop will help you identify wildfire risks around your horse property and provide you with the appropriate actions to minimize those risks. You will also learn ways to implement a plan and expedite an evacuation should the danger of wildfire arise.

Are weeds or flies a problem on your horse property? Join us at this online workshop to look at eco-friendly, least-toxic ways to manage weeds, bugs, and odors.

Join Alayne Blickle in the Portland area for this all day workshop that covers pasture management, designing and building a track paddock for horse enrichment and health, how to become firewise on horse properties and more!

Join Alayne Blickle in Little Rock, AR to learn about composting and manure management options, as well as natural solutions for managing mud, insect problems, water conservation, weed control, odor control—and many other innovative, chore-efficient techniques for managing horses while reducing environmental impacts.

Start the grazing season out right by finding out how you can make your pastures more productive and control weeds with a least toxic approach.

Join us at this innovative horse property to see and learn how others are leveraging their eco-sensitive horse acreage to create financial sustainability.

Barbara Kelly started horse keeping with nothing but a “wheelbarrow and a pitchfork.” Since then, with the help of the King Conservation District, she has put together a neat and tidy system for her two horses on 2.3 acres.