Townline Farms Hosts Spooktacular Event
CLOQUET, Minn. — The people of Cloquet got a pony of a deal this weekend.
Townline Farms hosted their annual Spooktacular event. They had everything from a petting zoo to local vendors and even a horse show–with costumes. They hope that this event can bring to light the work being done to improve horse riding within communities and the horse-riding hobby as a whole and encourages people to get up on a horse.
“We’re putting on our spooktacular event, not spectacular, spooktacular. We just love the community aspect, and Jill is also a really wonderful ambassador of our chamber, and she is always just encouraging people to join, so our chamber certainly supports the wonderful work that she’s doing, and we just wanna help spread the word. We are working with the DNR now, to expand our horse trail system in the Duluth area, so we would love to have you reach out to us, and if you’re not a member, we would love to have you join,” said Jill Dryke, Founder of Townline Farms, Stable and Equestrian School, along with Aubrey Hagen, Director of Membership Development and DEI for the Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce, and Renee Macharthur, member of the Duluth Area Horse Trail Alliance.
This event wasn’t just put on for Halloween and fun costumes but for the horses as well. The bond created between a rider and their horse is unlike any other and this event is a perfect way to get introduced to the mental health benefits of horseback riding.
“We’re just kind of pulling together and bringing the horse enthusiast atmosphere in our community, and it’s a lot of people that support horses, and support riding, and actually, 35% of Minnesota’s population are horse enthusiasts, and it’s a 2.2-billion-dollar industry in Minnesota alone. The world’s the limit, what it brings to anybody else is in their soul and heart, so it could just be touching, looking, seeing, get on that horse for the first time. I love to capture that very first time a child gets on a horse, those pictures and that smile are just amazing, and it just tickles my heart because the first time you touch a horse and what that horse does to you, a horse can sync its own heartbeat into your heart from four feet away, and so that kid feels that, and that horse feels that, and there’s chemistry, and it brings a profound joy, and that’s what we want to release and tap into, is the human heart and soul with horses.”
Townline Farms specializes in everything horse-related, so if you want to learn more, you can visit their website.
