Joy Journey Farms

04/16/2025

✨Just a boy and his horse,
grazing/resting together.

Roscoe’s 🐪 not the only star of Joy Journey Farms! Anna Mae 🐴 is a fan favorite too for her adorable size & unique pony charm 🤩

She’s joining the crew at an event near you this Easter weekend….Fishers, Indy, and Anderson!

12/18/2024

We’ve got some newbies around for the next several days to help us with some Nativity events!

Ruth & Blessing are new to our farm but not new to their roles in live Nativity scenes.

They’ll be part of the crew for our trip to Carmel tomorrow and Huntington on Sunday 🤩 🫏

11/03/2024

We interrupt our (unintentional) social media absence with the newest member of our crew, Rosa 🐴, posing as a 🦄 for a recent event!

The last 2 months have been F U L L!

So many festivals, school events, community parties, church events…..y’all like to party with animals in the fall! 🍁

We’re grateful for the many opportunities to bring the joy of the farm to you. Thank you for the opportunities!

09/21/2024

Thank you Middlebury!

09/15/2024

Helping this Carmel church celebrate 13 years tomorrow! 😎🎉

09/08/2024

Come see this majestic giant + his other farm buddies here in this historic, gorgeous setting, Trinity English Lutheran Church until 4 pm today!

And check out this website for lots of other neat events & free entrance into iconic Ft Wayne businesses TODAY!:
VisitFortWayne.com/BeATourist

🦙🐑 🐮 🐐 🐓🐴 🐰

09/07/2024

Roscoe 🐪 (and friends) are out and about this weekend! Today took the crew to West Lafayette to participate in ‘s event. Selfies and smiles all around for all ages!

Thank you for having us, what a beautiful day with beautiful people!

(Tomorrow’s Roscoe & friends sighting will be at Trinity English Lutheran Church in Fy Wayne for Ft Wayne’s “Be a Tourist in Your Own Hometown” event!)

09/04/2024

Here’s a post about a really neat upcoming event here in Ft Wayne.

We’ll be stationed at Trinity English Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, Indiana with our farm animals + Roscoe 🐪.

Check out the links in this post to see all the other fun locations for this event!

08/22/2024

✨Grateful for the joy we get to spark, simply by bringing animals to YOU!

A big thanks to Joy Journey Farms for bringing the mobile petting farm for our first day of camp! The animals brought a smile to all our faces!

08/07/2024

The weekend was poppin’ in our home town with multiple events! Grateful to bring the joy of the farm to so many!

07/19/2024

When the CEO sends you texts live from an event 😂
Jerri is the bunny 🐰😆

Do chickens 🐓 and bunnies 🐰 get along? Ours do
(See 2nd pick)
Chicken + bunny cuddles 🥰

07/19/2024

We’ve got 7 events between today and Sunday, and big thanks go to Yoeman Service Center for keeping our truck in the best shape across the miles! Love this family and their vision and values!

Since 2013, I have been sharing this with new employees when onboarding, but wanted to share publicly. Believe in this more now than ever.

07/05/2024

Some of our animals get booked on their own, without the rest of the farm crew joining them….

🐴 Our sweet & spunky mini horse has doubled as a unicorn for the most adorable little photo shoots,
And has wooed people as we walked around Notre Dame’s campus.

🐐 our goats were requested for a special dowrey delivery joke last year!

🐪 Roscoe made a 2 day appearance last month at our local Arab Fest

⚾️🐴 & tonight our mini horse will co-Star with Jim O’Heir (Parks & Rec) at the baseball game. Come enjoy our “Lil Sebastian” plus all the other fun Tincaps festivities!

(And message us if you have a special request to book even just 1 of our animals for your next event!)

06/23/2024

And that’s a wrap on 3 fabulous nights with the !

Thank you for the opportunity to be part of your many fun and engaging activities. Your staff is over the top kind & helpful, and we’re grateful!

See ya in a couple weeks for Sitcom night!

06/21/2024

Generally petting farm guests are able to fit INside this particular trailer to get up close and feed + pet our animals…..
Unless you’re this guy, a man on stilts!

Lots of fun carnival/fair themed entertainment these 3 nights at the Fort Wayne !

They have creative staff who thinks of it all!

06/20/2024

Hey baseball ⚾️ fans! Come see, feed, pet, brush, + take selfies with our animals at the games tonight, Friday night, & Saturday night!

A lot of our events are private so it’s fun anytime we get to share about events that anyone can come to (with a Tincaps ticket for these, of course!)

Our crew is already there setting up for tonight, and will be there 6-9 pm each night!
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🦙 🐑 🐮 🐐 🐓🐴 🐰 🐷

06/06/2024

❓Were we hired for the kids OR the adults for this backyard party?! Hard to tell 😁🐴🍷 🎉
is not partial to age. Fun for all!

(Hint: it was a 5️⃣th birthday party but obviously some with a few more years on them got to partake!)

05/26/2024

Today we celebrate our main man’s 4️⃣4️⃣th birthday🎈
AND also our 1️⃣7️⃣th wedding anniversary 🎉

So grateful for him! He did an event today with the petting farm & pony rides at a campground down in Greenfield. And now we head to celebrate in true Derek style…eating Indian food at a random little restaurant in a GAS STATION ⛽️! 😆

Sometime we’ll share the story of how/why we even chose “Joy Journey” as our brand name! It was intentional & started back in the season before we got married. Pic #2 is from way back then when those kids were just getting started…..