Bello Escasso Farms

01/01/2026

2 perfect ponies

01/01/2026

Harley says Happy New Year. 🎊

12/26/2025

Getting Christmas dinner ready. Thanks for the bran mashes Jenika Gordon

12/25/2025

12/21/2025

Dear Cowgirl,

It is ok to refuse what the world offers.

It is ok to put on more clothes rather than remove them.

It is ok to choose a low-paying vocation because it fills your soul. It is okay to choose working in a trade, cowboying, motherhood, farming, homemaking or any life that fills your soul rather than what is deemed as “success” by popular culture.

Success can look different for everyone.

It is ok to find joy in the “little things” like new calves, feeding with someone you care about, homemade meals, laughter and wannabe-cowdogs that bring a smile to your face.

It is ok to not drive a brand new truck, to be careful with the money you earned through hard work and not try to “keep up with the Jones’s.”

It is ok to create your own version of happiness.

It is ok to choose a hard, yet fulfilling path.

It is ok to choose simple, peaceful and joyful over rushed, unfulfilled or burned out.

Dear Cowgirl, it is ok to refuse what the world offers.💕

Adrian Brannan. Musician and author of Dear Cowgirl: Letters to Women. Buckaroo girl.

12/15/2025

Ponies wish list for Santa.

Treats
Treats
alfalfa hay
& treats

Westway will deliver hay & treats to the farm if you want to send presents 🎁 🎅

11/29/2025

Beautiful morning cold but pretty

11/23/2025

Happy November - critters enjoying a break from of the rain ☔️

11/22/2025

Horses don’t wake up with a diary full of performance goals. They’re not standing at the gate thinking, “I hope she schools me in a perfect 20-metre circle today.”

Their world is simpler and more honest. Safety. Predictability. Comfort. Herd. Food. Space. Rhythm. That’s the entire ecosystem of their wellbeing.

When we choose not to ride, we are not depriving them of something vital.
We are actually honouring their natural priorities.

Most days, what your horse wants is for you to show up with steady energy and a soft nervous system. They read the tension in your jaw, the rush in your footsteps, the way you hold your breath when you’re stressed. They know. And they respond.

A horse would rather stand with you quietly than carry you while you’re wound tight.

A horse would rather have a peaceful grooming session than be pushed through 45 minutes of schooling with winter wind rattling the arena boards.

A horse would rather feel you regulate beside them than feel you compensate on their back.

We often forget that riding is a human invention, not a horse requirement. What horses seek is harmony. A safe companion. Someone predictable enough that their bodies can settle next to ours.

When you decide not to ride because you’re tired, or the ground is frozen, or your brain is doing that loud static thing, you’re not failing. You’re speaking the horse’s language.

A regulated human is more valuable to them than a mounted one.

They don’t judge you for walking them to the field instead of tacking up. They don’t measure your worth by hours ridden. They care that you’re safe company. That you don’t bring storms into their space. That when you do ask something of them, it comes from clarity rather than pressure.

Some horses genuinely thrive when riding takes a step back for a little while. Their bodies get a breather. Their minds get space. Their relationship with you gets to be about connection rather than task.

If you’re showing up kindly, you’re doing enough.
If your horse is eating well, moving freely, living in a routine that makes sense to them, you’re doing enough.

And in the quiet seasons, the bond often grows deeper. Because horses remember who sits with them in the stillness.

11/06/2025

Where is my pot of gold 🍀🌈🧚🦄

10/30/2025

💕

09/09/2025

We have the herd out riding today 😂