About · meet the crew

Meet the
people who
do the work.

A small crew runs a working horse farm in East Tennessee — hands-on, every day. Here's everyone, plainly.

The same people care for your horse every single day. The realness is the brand — so here's everyone, plainly.

Meg crouched cheek-to-cheek with one of the horses resting in the barn
[ MEG / starting a colt in the round pen ]

Meg

Owner · trainer · lead instructor

20+ years with horses — currently living out her childhood dream (plus bills… boo). Harvard Business Analytics, UT Extension Master Beef Producer, UT Farming Fundamentals, a BA, and blah blah. She starts the colts, works the problem horses, and teaches the lessons. Hands-on, rain or shine — tries not to care about rude trolls online (sometimes fails), and shows up with grit and a cowgirl attitude every day.

How Meg trains
Becca in the pasture with a palomino horse and the farm's Great Dane
[ BECCA / morning feed, every horse by name ]

Becca

Barn manager · “Mammie” to the kids

Welcomes you to the barn, gets the paperwork out of the way, and handles the schedules, the horses, and Meg. If you were promised a call back that Meg didn't make, she's the one who handles that. New-ish to the horse world and living out her kid-and-grown-up fun dreams — mostly grooming and spending time with the horses, giving them treats and kisses.

Robbie in his Gracewood tee leading a horse in from the pasture, the mountains behind
[ ROBBIE / out on the fence line ]

Robbie

Facilities · “Pappie” to the kids

Usually seen on a tractor, skid steer, or in the truck. The reason the water's on, the fences are up, and why things may look a little different day to day for a while. Won't bite if approached — knows where the water and the essentials are, so feel free to ask him.

The Gracewood Acres family and crew together in the pasture with their Great Dane, mountains behind
The herd

The string that
makes the place.

Tucker is the lesson-horse statesman who has seen everything and forgiven most of it. Henry, Jack, Cardi, and the rest of a string that makes the place what it is.

Tucker · statesman Henry Jack Cardi & the string
The next chapter

About
the move.

We're relocating to a bigger property. More acreage, real trails, a barn we're building ourselves from the ground up — simple, practical, and ours.

We're not announcing details until the lease is signed and the ink is dry, because that's just how we do things. But we're building the waitlist now so the people who've been with us — and the people who've been watching — get first access to boarding spots, lesson openings, and the expanded trail program.