Windward Farm, Topsham

Windward Farm owner Sandra Davis brands her sylvan piece of Maine as a friendly and welcoming environment for beginning to intermediate riders to practice whatever riding discipline they wish. Lesson horses make for suitable learning animals as students learn to command their saddled friends in the insulated 72’x200’ indoor arena or the 100’x220’ outdoor arena.

The farm also hosts camps during the summer, when youngsters aged 7–16 descend on the grounds to learn and have fun under the close watch of highly qualified counselors who make sure campers don’t practice unsafe riding technique or try to sneak horses in their minivans at the end of the day. During their time on the farm, children learn equestrian tidbits such as grooming and tacking up their horse as well as efficient riding, and they spend the rest of their time making arts and crafts projects and playing games.