Eat, Sleep, Ride

13/11/2026

We're delighted to share that Eat Sleep Ride has been awarded a Global Citizenship Engagement Grant from the Scottish Government's Global Solidarity Fund, in its very first funding round. 🌍

The grant will fund Common Ground: Global Citizenship Learning at Quarry Farm.

Common Ground brings together adults with lived experience of displacement and young people from the Scottish Borders. The adults won't just take part. They'll help design and lead the sessions, sharing their skills in horse care, growing, land and woodland work, and off-grid energy.

Along the way, we'll explore the connections between migration, climate and the pressure on the world's resources, starting from a former landfill site that is now a solar-powered sanctuary.

At ESR, we believe nobody should be written off. Everyone has knowledge worth sharing, and this project puts that into practice.

Thank you to the Scottish Government and NIRAS for backing grassroots global citizenship here in the Borders. Congratulations to all 12 projects funded in this first round.

12/11/2026

The view from the top of Quarry Farm. 🌕🌊

The moon lighting a path across the sea, with the horses settled in for the night. Some evenings, this place just stops you in your tracks.

11/11/2026

How many people does it take to move a hay bale at Quarry Farm? 🤔

Sometime just Two. Danielle and Ava. 🐴🔦

We have no machinery, so every bale gets rolled, shoved, dragged and occasionally sat on in protest across the yard. Now the dark nights are here, we’re doing it in the pitch black, by torchlight and mostly by feel.

The horses think it’s hilarious. Ava thinks Danielle is doing most of the complaining. She’s not wrong.

Come on, come and help us! 🙏
🙋 Volunteer: come and wrestle a bale with us. No gym membership needed.
💷 Donate: help keep the hay coming all winter.
🚜 Help us source : a bale trolley, bale spike

Message us or visit www.eatsleeprides.org

10/11/2026

Our horsebox sauna is taking shape! 🐴🔥

We bought the horsebox and it's being converted at Maiden Storage in Haddington. We hit a bump when we found out it hadn't been sealed properly and was leaking, so that's been sorted first.

Now the framing is up, the insulation is going in, and the spaces for the flue and floor are marked out. We're getting there, and we can't wait to share the finished sauna with you at Quarry Farm.

Watch this space. 👀

10/11/2026

A little taste of live music to go with our storytelling at Quarry Farm 🐴✨

Stories, music and horses under one sky, with more coming soon. Our off-grid space is also available to hire for events, gigs, workshops and retreats. Message us or email [email protected] 💛

09/11/2026

Our young people have reached the next stage of the RoL Models Challenge! ⚖️

The challenge comes from the Attorney General’s Office and is all about the Rule of Law. For this stage, each young person researched their own “RoL Model”: someone who stands for fairness, equality and doing the right thing.

Their choices:
🐴 Ros Canter, Olympic eventer. “Even top riders have to follow the same rules, and that keeps the sport fair and horses safe.”
🌍 Sir David Attenborough, for speaking up for wildlife and the planet
📚 Malala Yousafzai, for fighting for every girl’s right to go to school
⚽ Nick Pope, Newcastle United goalkeeper, for inspiring the next generation of goalies

They’ve explored equality before the law, why rules matter and how one voice can change things, all connected to their own lives and the things they love. This is what youth voice looks like. Next up: their final projects!

👉 Know a young person who’d love to learn, grow and find their voice at the farm? Get in touch at [email protected] or visit www.eatsleeprides.org to find out more about our youth programmes.

08/11/2026

We won! 🏆🐴

Herd Dynamics has won £30,000 in Firstport’s Social Innovation Challenge.

Herd Dynamics is our leadership programme with the herd. Teams come to Quarry Farm and learn about leadership, trust and communication from our horses. Every booking helps fund our charity, and young people from Eat Sleep Ride take part in the sessions alongside our facilitators, building skills, confidence and paid experience.

This one means a lot. Back in 2017, Firstport gave us £4,000 to get Eat Sleep Ride started. Without it, there would be no Quarry Farm. To come back and win their Social Innovation Challenge feels like coming full circle. 💚

Thank you, Firstport, and everyone who backed us along the way.

Want to bring your team to learn leadership from the herd? Message us or visit

https://www.eatsleeprides.org/services/leadership-with-horses-powered-by-nature

08/11/2026

Do you have to go into the shop to buy the tickets wanted to bring a few girls and support some of volunteers who are performing?

With less than a week to go until opening night it’s time to meet our cast!

First up is our wonderful chorus who have been working hard and are ready to bring their singing, dancing and acting talents to the stage! 🥀

08/11/2026

FOR THE HORSES WHO NEVER CAME HOME 💜

Before the war, most of them were farm horses, carriage horses and children's ponies. They knew quiet fields, familiar hands and the sound of their own names.

Then they were taken to the front.

Around 8 million horses, mules and donkeys died in the First World War. Britain alone sent around a million horses to the Western Front, and more than 900,000 never came home.

They hauled guns through knee-deep mud, carried supplies and am******on through the night, and pulled the wounded to safety. Most didn't die in battle. They died from exhaustion, cold, hunger and disease.

Every instinct a horse has tells it to run from danger. These horses stood in the middle of it, because the people they trusted asked them to.

Many soldiers said their horse was what kept them going. They shared their rations, talked to them in the dark, and grieved them like friends.

The horses didn't choose the war, and they couldn't understand it. Very few of their names were ever written down.

Here at Eat Sleep Ride, we spend every day with horses who were once written off. We see their trust, their courage and how much they give back. Today we think of all the horses who gave everything and got nothing in return.

The cavalry horses, the heavy horses, the pit ponies, the mules and the donkeys.

We remember every one of them. 💜

08/11/2026

On Remembrance Sunday, we remember all who served, including the horses who stood beside them. 🌺