My Life and Work with Horses (IA Section)

To be held by Zoom video conferencing.

A talk by Jonathan Waterer about his life spent working with horses on the farm where he and his wife Fiona now live at Higher Biddacott, Chittlehampton. In addition to many other projects, he and Fiona train horses to work with other people.

Jonathan was brought up on his parents’ mixed farm in Berkshire, where he learned to ride and drive horses. After school and study at Berkshire College of Agriculture, he apprenticed as a cowboy for 4 years on a 7,000-acre ranch in Alberta, Canada. There, he worked with Percheron horses used for feeding 800 head of cattle, kept outdoors year-round, and were also used for haymaking, and shown at many state fairs and the The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, the annual event held in November in Toronto.

Jonathan returned to a small farm on Exmoor in 1982 to keep sheep, cattle, and to train collies. At the same time, he worked the land with Shire horses and trained them and ponies for others to ride and drive. He now also provides horses and carriages for weddings, funerals and film work.

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