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Bramblewood Stables

Visitors by appointment only. A unique urban farm offering riding lessons and human growth

With lessons offered for all ages and abilities every day throughout the week, Bramblewood is also a full boarding and training facility. ARIA certified instructors and a magical environment are just minutes away from downtown Greenville, SC.

10/30/2025

This week on Stable Roots, Kim Carter reflects on how a KEEP OUT sign became an unexpected invitation, how neighbors appeared at just the right moment, and how the horses at Lavender Hill continue to remind us that we don’t have to see through the forest — we only have to look far enough to see the next step.

Read (or listen) to the full piece here:

https://stableroots.substack.com/p/dont-look-too-far-into-the-woods

Help us keep building this life at Lavender Hill—for the herd, the land, and the community it continues to gather:

https://gofund.me/fd8e45844

10/23/2025

At Bramblewood Stables at Lavender Hill, our work has always been about more than horses. It’s about land, belonging, and the communities that grow when we choose to stay connected—to each other, to the animals in our care, and to the ground beneath our feet.

This week, Kim Carter shares a new Stable Roots piece, The Cost of Moving On: On land, loneliness, and crowdsourcing a farm. Written from our new home at Lavender Hill, it explores how our culture’s obsession with independence has led us toward disconnection, and why preserving public farms matters more than ever.

It’s a short, powerful read—an invitation to look deeper at how we move through the world and what we’re willing to protect.

🪶 Read or listen here:
https://stableroots.substack.com/p/the-cost-of-moving-on.

10/22/2025

There’s a slanting light settling over Lavender Hill—soft enough to forgive, golden enough to remember. The pond holds it like a secret, the pastures stretch wide and waiting, and the old magnolia seems to hold the light a little longer as the day shifts.

We’ve opened the gates of this 200-year-old farm for Photography Access at Lavender Hill.

Whether it’s family photos, engagement portraits, or an afternoon of creative work, this land doesn’t need to be dressed up.

The landscape itself is the art.

If you’re dreaming of autumn photos beneath the oaks, by the barn with green shutters, or along the water’s edge, message me for details. 🍂

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10/16/2025

A man on the phone told me horses have no value to the general populace.

Maybe that’s the problem.

Here, value looks different — it’s the rhythm of hooves in morning light, the smell of grass the quiet work that keeps us connected to the earth.

I wrote about that this week on Stable Roots — and recorded it, too, for anyone who wants to listen on the move.

🪶 Even the Ordinary Days Are Holy — now live.
 [link to Stable Roots in bio]

10/16/2025

At Lavender Hill, even the ordinary days have their own quiet holiness.

This week, Kim reflects on how grief, belonging, and the rhythm of farm life intertwine — from washing hands at the new sink in the barn to watching the herd settle into new pastures. What begins as a meditation on loss becomes a study in renewal: how tending to land and horses can teach us what rest truly means.

Her latest essay, Even the Ordinary Days Are Holy, is live now on Stable Roots. It’s also available in audio for those who prefer to listen on the move.

🪶 Read or listen here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/stableroots/p/even-the-ordinary-days-are-holy

Address

649 Oaklawn Road
Taylors, SC
29680

Telephone

+18643633727

Website

http://www.bramblewoodstables.com/, https://stableroots.substack.com/

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