Nonifarm

04/15/2025

Maryland Therapeutic Riding retiree Eli enters his 30th year 🎉🎂

10/12/2023

This week, please help us find good homes for these adorable kittens. Freshly-weaned, litter box trained, and ready for forever homes!

12/05/2022

Please join us in wishing a Happy Retirement to Magic!

Kindness of the Mercer family, Magic joined Thorncroft in 2020 and spent his time here becoming a huge favorite of everyone.

He is the sweetest soul, beautifully mannered, and a happy addition to our recreational, therapeutic, Veterans, and first responders programming.

We are so happy to be able to offer him retirement at the beautiful Nonifarm, with a special thank you to Eric for welcoming Magic to the herd. (Fun fact! Magic is retiring where former herd member JoJo is also retired!)

Finding the next home for our horses after their time at Thorncroft remains of the utmost importance to us. No matter the length of time spent at the Farm, or time to find their new home, our horses will always have a safe, welcoming home here.

Thank you Magic, for your service to your riders and to the Farm.

11/29/2022

Support Bringing Magic to nonifarm
https://www.nonifarm.org/Magic

Magic being a 19 y.o. career therapeutic riding horse who is suffering from Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM). The disease attacks a horse's central nervous system. Without a timely diagnosis and treatment EPM can cause devastating and lasting neurological damage.

Magic’s treatment has begun. Sixty to 70 percent of EPM cases aggressively treated show significant or complete reversal of symptoms. Regardless of his recovery Magic has been retired from therapeutic riding and nonifarm has committed to being Magic’s forever home for the remainder of his days.

https://www.nonifarm.org/Magic

01/24/2022

Nancy “Noni” Ebeltoft Weber would have celebrated her 77th birthday today — the horses at are celebrating her life everyday ❤️

12/31/2021

11/24/2021

Wishing you and yours a wonderful Thanksgiving from all of the nonifarm barnyard pals!

11/19/2021

For all of our noniChicken eggs fans...

09/22/2021

Our Braveheart Rose is very popular with the Fairies
❤️🧚‍♂️🧚‍♀️🧚❤️

The Tale of the Fairy Knots 🧚‍♂️💙🧚‍♀️💜🧚🧡

The knots that appear in a horse's mane are known as Fairy Knots. During the night, it is said that a group of fairies wander out in search of horses. Once their ideal horse is found, they actually twist their manes to form little stirrups and reins on the horse. They then ride the horses all through the night and take them on magical adventures. The horses are always returned by morning, but the knots are left for when the fairies come again.

05/28/2021

Every little Arabian mare with a heart marking on her face needs her own sticker.

I use Sticker Mule a lot. With this one, you warned me the graphic was lower res than preferred. I went ahead with it anyway and the quality is great. Appreciate you making it work!

05/21/2021

Although we are missing the presence of our magical unicorn Sunday's Shadow, her amazing energy is still very much here and watching over her nonifarm herd.

Shadow was nonifarm's first adoption as the retreat for senior equines it has become. As an elderly government-branded mustang, Shadow came to us after being rescued by humane law officers from a home where the horses were suffering from severe neglect and cruelty. Shadow had been nursed back to health by wonderful people at the Pennsylvania SPCA and spent more than three years in limbo with no one willing to adopt her.

The day she arrived here was unforgettable. She was described as standoffish and likely to be a loner. She came off that horse trailer with the excitement of a filly ready to claim nonifarm's green pastures as her home. Noni's beloved quarter horse Sunday had been on his own for several years. Things fell into place the moment the two of them met and she was by his side for the remainder of his days.

R.I.P. our sweetest, she is loved and missed always ❤️

04/18/2021

Sunday’s Shadow halter diva