This plot of land has a rich and vibrant history. It was once home to the great Westinghouse complex, a factory built while the American industrial revolution was in full force. Here, Seth Boyden invented his renowned patent leather and Thomas Edison started his brilliant career. In the 1890s, before Eastman-Kodak, Hannibal Goodwin perfected plastic camera film right here. However, the building’s glory faded over the 1950s, yielding to a different landscape and history.
The warehouse then stood as a solemn testimony to history before its final demolition in 2007. Every day, on my way to and from high school, I observe weeds strewn about the lot. Now, it is up to my generation to imbue these symbolic three acres with new life. I dream of a meadow full of lovely flowers rather than scrawny weeds. Last spring, we sowed 25 pounds wildflower seeds along the sidewalks and were rewarded with many bright colors. However, I envision greater heights: the entire plot covered in blooms. This spring, I want meet the challenge head on, but I need your help to transform this dream into a reality.
Any contributions will be used to pay for: equipment rentals: a tiller ($96.00), a roller ($19.00), and a seeder ($34.98) all from Home Depot, and 100 lbs of Dry Area Wildflower Seed Mix from American Meadows ($1895.90 plus shipping). I would love to reach my goal in early spring, by April. If we are able to realize this dream it would incredible. It would prove that proactively, together, people can make a real change in their own environments and lives.
“A place where horses can heal”
Mission Statement
Our goal is to provide a safety net for severely neglected and/or abused horses, which after veterinary care, nursing, treatment, and management, can eventually return to living as healthy, active horses. This will be accomplished in a number of ways:
Mountain Meadows Equestrian Center. We will be offering our Wednesday Day camps starting on March 18th while the children are out of school. Fresh air and exercise are 2 important factors to keep this virus at bay. No horse experience is necessary for the camp. Riders are grouped according to their ability. 5089 Old Tavern Road. The Plains, VA 20198 Tel: 540-253-5001 Fax: 540-253-5005 info@greatmeadow.org. Meadowlark Equestrian Center - Plymouth, MI. Jul 02, 2012 American Meadows is a terrible company, with poor service and abysmal customer service. I ordered plants from American Meadows and have received only empty promises. My order was supposed to ship the week of 4/11. On Friday of that week I emailed them to ask why I hadn't received a shipping notice. American Meadow's Equestrian Center.
- A state of the art treatment facility with an eight stall barn and several outside corrals, two round rings and turnout area.
- Medical equipment to assess the health and condition of each horse and monitor its recovery.
- A foster care network to house healthy horses until they can be adopted.
- An adoption program designed to ensure each healthy animal will be well cared for the rest of its life.
The History of Mountain Meadow Equine Rescue & Rehab
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Mountain Meadow Equine Rescue & Rehab Center, while a newcomer to the horse rescue community, comes from a long history of saving animals from neglect and abandonment. It started as the Animal Trust Foundation which was founded May 16, 1973 by Patrica Woodbridge Nelson. Originally named the Animal Trust Sanctuary, the foundation owned a five acre ranch in Ramona, California, where Ms. Nelson established and maintained a rescue center for dogs and cats. Years later the ranch was donated to Fund for Animals, a New York animal rescue of which Cleveland Amory was the head. The Animal Trust Sanctuary changed its name to Animal Trust Foundation (ATF) and continued in the ensuing years to donate funds to many local animal welfare and rescue organizations. It was in November, 2014 that the decision was made to create an offshoot from the Foundation designed to rescue and care for injured and starving horses. Thus Mountain Meadow Equine Rescue came into being.
Substantial investment was made in creating a state of the art care facility, including an eight stall steel barn, weight scale, and medical equipment. There are also six outside corrals with a half-acre paddock. As we grow there is room to expand to about double our current capacity. Being limited in space to about four acres, we focus on horses with urgent medical issues in the need of long term (six to twelve months) care, rather than warehousing abandoned animals. There are many rescues in San Diego County doing a great job in taking care of these orphaned horses and they deserve all the praise they receive. Our doors are open to any organization which may find itself overly burdened by the health care requirements of some horses with special needs. Additionally, equine veterinarians occasionally encounter an injured horse which requires long term care and which the owner cannot afford to address. In these circumstances, often the unfortunate choice is made to euthanize the animal solely because of the unbearable cost placed on the owner. These are our patients.
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ATF continues to operate as it always has, contributing to the support of welfare and rescue organizations under the direction of Anthony Clark, one of the original founders. The former president, Douglas Stoodt, became and continues to be the CEO and Director of Mountain Meadow Equine Rescue.