Little Trotters 4-H meets the first Friday of every month. We enjoy public speaking, leadership & community services opportunities as well as educational experiences and field trips focused upon "Horses". The age range is 5-18. We are welcoming new members and you don't have to have a horse to join. We are a horse lovers club. Divinity Farm shares their horses for hands on experiences, understanding the relationship with the horse, the study of Equus (the language of horses) riding and much more. Little Trotters is still in it's growing stages. At some point we will need to close membership. There is a waiting list for surrounding clubs. Again, safety is the mainstream of what we practice at Divinity with the Little Trotters as well as our students and guests. See mass4-h.org or email mariahurley@divinityfarm.com if you have any further inquires or questions.

9/2011 Updates: Little Trotters has been meeting monthly since winter of 2010. We have has so far a very successful year. The Trotters have attended 2 horse shows, got to enjoy and ride in 2 show preps on Divinity's horses, we had a field tript to Dover for a scavenger hunt, another to learn about Equine Dentistry. We have studied horse rescue as a topic and went to New England Equine rescues to visit the local recue. Divinity Farm & The Little Trotters were featured in the Eagle Tribune Newspaper when they excercised community service by reading "horse related sory books" to the children of the community here at the farm. Little Trotters have also had a tack cleaning night as we prepared for the Equine Expo. We had a visit from Christine the Blue Seal rep to discuss Equine Nutrition. On behalf of Divinity Farm & the Little Trotters Maria was iterviewed for a short tv presentation as well on Groveland Day Maria, Sarah & Mia were also interviewed for local tv.! During Groveland day we had a recruitment Divinity Farm Students & the Little Trotters passed out brochures and spoke with community members about our farm and club. Our club has a breed of the month we have covered many such as Connemara, uarter Horses, Zweibruckers, Arabians, Morgans and more. We also put together our own first aid kit for the farm for the use of our club. We also have Sarah volunteering and doing community service at Divinity working in our Hippotherapy Program. As well as another 4-Hr's from another club Meagan. Some of the words of the month have been coggins, transitions and Equus. Cailynn & McKenzie have done minutes and Mckenzie created a lovely newsletter. We also purchased a banner for our club as well as worked on a hand made one with our members. We also have a new canopy and brand new picnic table for the meetings at the farm. The membrship for our club is on the rise and we will be closing recruitment soon due to the high numbers. Now is the time to join.

Featured in the Eagle Tribune Spring 2011