Hunter Spring Farm

12/11/2025

"Do you hear that? It's a funny squeaking sound." 😂

12/07/2025

Saturday Horse Spotlight!

Meet Diva 💁🏻‍♀️

Show Name: Appsolutely A Diva
Barn name: Diva
Breed: POA
Age: 13
Color: red roan
Height: 12.2 hands

About Diva!
Diva is full of personality and lives up to her name. She is our perfect step up for our riders coming off of our sweet Dolly girl! Diva helps us with everything from the walk trot lunge line, learn to canter, through jumping 2’ lessons. Diva has also cross country schooled and done some mini trials! Many of our students, as well as miss Lizzies son Chase, have shown Diva in a variety of classes. Diva is very well decorated with ribbons and trophies galore. While she can have some red pony mare sass, she teaches our riders so much!

Share your favorite Diva stories or photos below! 🐎

12/04/2025

Looking for something fun to do over Christmas break? What about a great experience gift for your hard to shop for child?

Join us here at Hunter Spring Farm for one, two, or all three days of horsey fun!

Each day is a different theme for our crafts, which will be made in the heated lounge area.

Everyone will have the opportunity to ride, care for, and love on our horses and ponies each day. No prior riding experience required, but riders with experience are welcome as well.

Questions? Call us @ 4127197328! I also have one opening for weekly lessons.

Register at the link below!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexovr6vFWYkCHVXvBIJQoMVYWLAZlrqiUgBDDHyIJDncmCLQ/viewform

12/04/2025

Can you spot the SEVEN horses??

❤️❤️❤️ Ariel, Riley, and Quake are all wearing red
🩵 GiGi is looking spiffy in teal
🖤💜💜 Almost impossible to see are Ronan, Sarge and Jasmine (black and deep purples)
🖤 #8 is Beer, also wearing black, but she was standing next to me when the photo was taken!

11/29/2025

Saturday Horse Spotlight!

Today we’re featuring the horse who has been so many things… meet Elliot!

Registered Name: Sky Blue Hunter
Barn Name: Elliot
Breed: Appendix Quarter Horse
Age: 21
Color: Grey
Height: 17.1 hands

Elliot has been so many things since we brought him to the farm in 2013. He and Miss Lizzie have competed in all around events including Hunter Under Saddle, Equitation, Working Hunter, Hunter Hack, Showmanship, Trail, Horsemanship, Western Pleasure, and when miss Lizzie first wanted to try 3 day eventing, Elliot stepped up for that too! They’ve competed at the All American Quarter Horse Congress together, and shown all over the country.

Elliot also carried Chase through leadline, and has retired to the role of cherished lesson horse teaching kids and adults alike. He’s the tallest horse on the farm!

Elliot can also be credited for Miss Lizzie re meeting her now husband, Blaine! Elliot was an honored guest at their wedding.

Elliot has a super silly, big personality! Share your Elliot photos or memories in the comments!

11/28/2025

We have ONE SPOT open for Holiday Photos with Dolly tomorrow (12:10). Click the link and fill out the form!

🎅🐴 Holiday Photos, Pony Rides, and Crafts on the Farm! ❤️💚 https://forms.gle/5qPQEFLtaN7N7gmu6

CURRENT HSF RIDERS ONLY (register by midnight tonight!) - Skip the pony ride; enjoy open photos with Dolly & Diva and crafting from 2-3:00. $15/child. Venmo Miss Cheri to reserve your spot! (Please include "HSF Photo Event and Rider's Name" in the memo)

LOCATION: 1514 Stoltz Road, Bethel Park, PA DATE: Saturday, November 29, 2025 Join us at Hunter Spring Farm to get your picture taken with our sweet pony, Dolly. Dolly will be dressed in her holiday best, think red with white trim! Enjoy a guided pony ride around our indoor arena Make a craft with o...

11/22/2025

✨Saturday Horse Spotlight!✨

Follow along for our new weekly horse spotlight series! Get to know the horses and ponies here at Hunter Spring Farm! We invite you to share a photo or memory with any of our horses and ponies 🐎

First up is the backbone of our program - Dolly!

Registered/Show name: Hello Dolly Madison
Barn name: Dolly
Breed: Welsh/QH cross
Age: 36 (yes, that’s right!)
Height: 12.2 hands
Color: Bay

About Dolly- Dolly has lived at Hunter Spring Farm since 2005. In her youth, she showed in everything from showmanship, to over fences classes, under saddle, equitation, and even pony driving! Now that she is older, Dolly enjoys showing our beginners the ropes. She is the perfect walk/trot pony and always gives her friends a safe and confident ride. Don’t tell her she’s retired, though - she takes offense to that! She loves being part of the program and spending time with her young rider friends. She even still attends a handful of shows per year, always giving a nervous new shower a confident ride. Her riders come out of the show ring with smiles, and usually some ribbons, too! Dolly has also been disguised as a unicorn for photo shoots, done birthday parties, and is one of the stars of our summer camp program!

Who has had a chance to ride our best Dolly girl? 💕

Share your favorite Dolly photos in the comments! Who should we feature next week?

11/15/2025

🎅🐴 Holiday Photos, Pony Rides, and Crafts on the Farm! ❤️💚

Follow the link to signup, space it limited, don't delay! --

https://forms.gle/5qPQEFLtaN7N7gmu6

CURRENT HSF RIDERS ONLY - Skip the pony ride; enjoy open photos and crafting from 2-3:00. $15/child. Venmo Miss Cheri to reserve your spot! (Please include "HSF Photo Event and Rider's Name" in the memo)

11/14/2025

All of us at Hunter Spring Farm want to wish an extra happy birthday to our very own Miss Cheri Foote!

You never know where you’ll find Miss Cheri - cleaning a stall, feeding ponies, grooming one of her special friends, playing with baby ducks, fixing something, painting something, crafting with our summer campers, or stealing baby Brooksie for fun and snuggles!

She’s one of baby Brooks’ favorite people, and one of ours too! Thanks for all you do for our feathered, furry, flappy, and pooping things Miss Cheri! We all hope you have a fantastic day 🎉🎂🥳

07/30/2025

Our Horse Chefs today participated in the Hunter Spring Horse bake off challenge!

Teams had 30 mins to create 4 treats with a variety of horse safe ingredients! Teams earned points for presentation and creativity from our two legged staff members, and got bonus points for taste by our 4 legged staff members!

We’re having so much fun with our last week of camp! 👩‍🍳🐎

07/24/2025

We are having the best time at camp this week!

Our campers participated in a ✨Pony Spa Showdown ✨ today!

With 30 minutes on the clock, campers groomed, pampered, and beautified our ponies! They were scored on their grooming skills and creativity. We had so much fun!

We have had so many new horse friends join us this year, and are anticipating being able to add an additional day per week of lessons this fall! If you’re looking for a fun, friendly, family oriented facility for lessons please reach out to us.

Thanks for camping with us this week at Hunter Spring Horse Spa!

07/19/2025

We had SO much fun at camp this week with new and returning friends!

Campers worked on riding skills including safely mounting and dismounting, stopping, steering through a variety of obstacles, posting, and two point. We took a mid week ba****ck ride and talked about feeling the horses steps and how the horses legs moved at different gaits. They even got to create their own obstacle course showcasing these skills, and ride through it on their favorite horse or pony!

We watched several great educational demos, including a natural horsemanship/ground work demonstration, learned about hoof trimming and hoof health with Blaine Orris, saw a horse get a check up and their teeth cared for with Dr Emma Bronder, and got to meet a local author and listen to one of the books in the Lady Thistle children’s book series. Some of older riders showed our campers their jumping skills too!

Campers cared for a horse or pony throughout the week, learning how to feed them, groom them, clean their stall, and keep their water buckets clean. We also learned all about reading equine body language, common ailments and how to recognize them, and all about the different equipment we use!

And of course, we did lots of great crafts to take home and enjoy. For the barn, we created a special set of jump standards with our campers handprints to remember our awesome week here at Hunter Spring Farm!

Thanks for camping with us! While our remaining summer sessions are FULL, get in touch with us to talk about fall schedule lessons and be on the look out for our fall and winter camps!

Thanks to all of our camp helpers who made this great week possible - Dana, Cheri, Kathy, Kiera, Chloe, and Ryley!