There’s More Than One Way to Get a Leg Up.

Every experience at LUCK begins with a relationship—and grows from there. Grounded in trauma-informed principles and inspired by horses, our experiences give people opportunities to build confidence, strengthen social-emotional skills, explore interests, develop practical skills, and connect with others. Choose an existing experience or work with us to create one for your school, organization, family, or group.

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Start with what sparks your interest.

Choose from equine, agriculture, and entrepreneurship experiences—or work with LUCK to create an experience for your school, organization, family, or group.

Start Where You Are. Build Toward the Barn.

Build confidence, body awareness, balance, horsemanship skills, emotional regulation, and trust.

Experience the Satisfaction of Helping Something Grow.

Grow food, care for the land, build useful spaces, and connect communities through healthy food.

Turn Ideas and Skills Into Possibilities.

Explore careers, develop workplace skills, and learn how ideas can become products, services, and community enterprises.

Start Where You Are. Build Toward the Barn.

Not everyone is ready to climb onto a horse on day one. LUCK gives young people opportunities to build confidence, body awareness, balance, and basic horsemanship skills before progressing to experiences with live horses.
Build confidence. Find balance. Connect with horses.
Riding Readiness at Loiter

Riding Readiness at Loiter

Riding Readiness gives young people a comfortable place to prepare for working with and riding horses. Using hands-on activities and riding simulators, participants can learn what to expect, practice foundational skills, and build confidence before heading to the barn.

Prepare to Ride

Balance • Posture • Core strength • Coordination • Mounting and dismounting skills • Rein position • Basic riding cues

Learn Before You Go

Horse behavior • Barn and riding safety • Grooming and tack • Horse communication • What to expect around a live horse

Build Confidence

Body awareness • Following directions • Focus • Emotional regulation • Problem-solving • Comfort with new experiences

Progress to Live Horses

When participants are ready, those foundational skills can carry into hands-on experiences with LUCK's horses.

Build Confidence. Find Balance. Connect with Horses.

Horses offer something difficult to recreate in a classroom or traditional program: the opportunity to build a relationship with a powerful, responsive animal. Through trauma-informed, equine-assisted experiences, young people learn to ride, handle, communicate with, and care for horses while developing physical fitness, confidence, emotional awareness, resilience, and social-emotional adaptability. Participants progress at their own pace—from approaching and grooming a horse to groundwork, independent handling, and riding.

Ride & Build Physical Confidence

Riding • Balance and coordination • Core strength • Body awareness • Fitness • Progressive horsemanship skills

Handle & Communicate with Horses

Leading • Groundwork • Grooming • Reading horse behavior • Nonverbal communication • Boundaries • Safe horse handling

Learn Horse Care

Feeding • Grooming • Barn routines • Tack and equipment • Horse health and wellness • Responsible care

Build Social-Emotional Skills

Self-awareness • Emotional regulation • Confidence • Communication • Patience • Problem-solving • Adaptability • Trust

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How Horses Help

Horses respond to what happens in the moment—not labels, backgrounds, or assumptions. Their responses give participants immediate opportunities to practice:

Safety

Creating physical and emotional environments where people can grow.

Trust

Building relationships through consistency, respect, and authenticity.

Choice & Agency

Giving people meaningful choices and a voice in their experience.

Collaboration

Learning and accomplishing things alongside others.

Empowerment

Building confidence through competence and discovering new strengths.

Purpose

Creating opportunities to contribute, care, build, grow, and give back.

Experience the satisfaction of helping something grow.

Experience the Satisfaction of Helping Something Grow.

Caring for horses naturally connects us to the land that sustains them. Healthy horses depend on healthy soil, clean water, nutritious forage, and thriving ecosystems.
Through hands-on agriculture and environmental experiences, participants grow food, care for the land, build useful spaces, and see how horses, farms, food, people, and communities are connected.

Grow & Harvest

Seed starting • Vegetable and herb gardens • Pollinator gardens • Greenhouse growing • Harvesting • Seed saving

Care for the Land

Composting • Soil building • Mulching • Watering • Native habitat restoration • Rain gardens • Pasture and trail care

Build the Farm

Raised beds • Hoop houses • Compost systems • Pollinator habitats • Benches • Gathering spaces • Outdoor classrooms • Horse enrichment projects

From Farm to Table

Harvesting and preparing produce • Healthy cooking • Food preservation • Community meals • Farmers markets • Produce donations

Work With the Seasons

Spring planting • Summer tending and harvesting • Fall preserving and seed collection • Winter planning, tool care, and workshops

Connect Communities Through Healthy Food

Support Produce Prescription and other community food programs through produce preparation • Distribution and delivery • Participant outreach • Volunteer coordination • Community events

Turn Ideas and Skills Into Possibilities.

Life around horses and farms is full of needs to identify, problems to solve, and work that matters. These experiences give participants opportunities to explore careers, develop workplace skills, and learn how ideas can become products, services, and community enterprises.

At LUCK, entrepreneurship isn’t only about making money. It’s about learning to recognize a need, take initiative, create something useful, and contribute to the community.

Ideas. Skills. Initiative. Community.

Explore Equestrian & Agricultural Careers

Shadow professionals • Veterinary and farrier careers • Horse training • Barn management • Equine nutrition • Equine-assisted careers • Agriculture and food systems • Visits to equine and agricultural businesses

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Operate the Equestrian Exchange

Prepare and price donated merchandise • Create displays • Assist customers • Manage inventory • Learn retail and point-of-sale operations

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From Garden to Market

Harvest and prepare produce • Set up farm stands • Merchandise products • Learn pricing and sales • Interact with customers

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Grow Community Enterprises

Create and package compost • Develop garden and farm products • Support sustainability projects • Explore new products and services

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Build Workplace Skills

Teamwork • Communication • Project planning • Problem-solving • Customer service • Reliability • Accountability

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Create New Possibilities

Brainstorm enterprises • Develop marketing and fundraising ideas • Build community partnerships • Help launch community-based projects

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The activity may be what brings someone through the gate.

Whether someone comes to LUCK to ride a horse, grow a garden, build something, explore a career, volunteer, or simply experience a new environment, the same principles guide the work: safety, trust, choice, collaboration, empowerment, and meaningful relationships.

The activity may be what brings someone through the gate. What they discover along the way can go much further.

Possibilities