WEEK 22 | Mexico a Caballo
“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint”. Edmund Burke WEEK 22 | Mexico a Caballo El Milagro, Queretaro to San Juan del Río...
WEEK 14 | Mexico a Caballo
“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.” Robert Jordan WEEK 14 | Mexico a Caballo Week 14 continued with my rest in La Guada, outside of Puerto Veracruz. DAY 101 | Flat walking away from the...
Chasing Green Grass
Roxy is rocking it these days. We’ve been doing some short intense rides and we’ve improved her diet since February. We had some poor feed in January and February, but we got a better source of hay in March. We also started adding soy into the Omelina 300...
The Beginning
I bought my first horse in the summer of 2014, for the trip I just finished last September. I bought Roxy a little over 4 years ago to accompany Jingles. In the beginning, I made so many mistakes with the 2 of them, I’m so glad Jingles was dead broke and Roxy...
Our dry season feed program
This is what I feed Roxy now that we are in the dry season. Roxy 925lbs Per day: 1. 1/5th roughage bale ~10lbs 1/3 quality bale 42lb ~14lbs Fed over 4 meals 2. 3 of the 4 meals include feed: Each time 1lb Afrecho (wheat bran) 1lb Omelina 300 80-100 ml canola oil 30 ml...
Comfort for horse and rider
What I’m about to say is worth THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS. It’s the most IMPORTANT THING FROM MY TRIP: Fitting a saddle for both horse and rider is never easy. Doing it for a 5000 mile long ride with extra weight from saddle bags, IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT. THIS IS...
Thank You
I want to thank everyone I came into contact with during the 5000 miles of hope solo horse ride from Canada to Guatemala. Even the people I wish I had never met. Because it’s ALL the influences -good, bad, and crazy- that helped shape the outcome of our...OUR SPONSORS
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Author and organic grower Chris MacLuckies’ journey into commercial agri-culture began through a government sponsored, Canadian Organic Growers (COG) endorsed apprenticeship, outside of Hamilton, Ontario.
Since then he has farmed organics commercially, volunteered in Guatemala, ran a gardening business, raised and raced sled dogs, tended his livestock, and ridden his horses. Over the last 20 years he has worked on over a hundred gardens and farms. Chris is a certified TEFL ESL English Teacher and author of several books.
As of September 2017 he is on horseback exploring food, farms and horses across North America.
