Farm Access Memberships
In the United States, the landscape of farming is quietly shrinking. In the last five years alone, the number of farms has fallen by about 140,000 — a 7 percent decline — and total farmland acreage continues to contract year after year.
This isn’t a story of productivity or efficiency. It’s a story of places we are losing — soil that once breathed, grazed, and bore life now disappearing under development, economic pressure, and shifting markets. Since 1997, the country has lost roughly 75 million acres of farmland — a reminder that even working land is not guaranteed to stay working.
Across the country, fields turn into subdivisions and highways; pastures that once supported grazing and habitat retreat under financial booms. This loss is not abstract. It affects local economies, wildlife, food systems, and the continuity of land that sustains memory, identity, and labor that can’t be replicated once it’s gone.
This page isn’t inviting you to check a box or consume another experience. It’s inviting you to help keep land alive. To stand with something that exists not for spectacle but for soil, animals, seasons, and the quiet fidelity of embodied work.
Lavender Hill is part of that story — a place that has remained a working piece of land across generations not because it was popular or profitable, but because people cared enough to keep it so.
The memberships that follow are more than access to a farm. They are choices to help hold land in the world — to keep soil open, horses tended, and farming possible at a moment when so much of it is slipping away.
Our Memberships Levels
Grounded is for those who want time on the land to exist without pressure or expectation. It offers a steady relationship with place — one that doesn’t ask you to arrive with intention or leave with meaning. You come as you are, spend time as it unfolds, and let familiarity grow at its own pace.
Rooted is for those who value regular presence and ongoing connection. It reflects a choice to be in relationship with the land and horses through regular visits and shared time. This level isn’t about intensity or depth — it’s about continuity, and what becomes possible when a place is allowed to become a part of your life. Includes all the benefits of Grounded plus:
Steward is for those who feel called to help support the land and animals directly through keeping land accessible to farming. It acknowledges that places like Lavender Hill exist because people choose to take responsibility for their care. This level is about standing alongside the community and contributing to its ability to remain a working farm well into the future. Includes all the benefits of Grounded and Rooted plus:
Be a part of the future of horse farming
Farm Access Memberships offer a way to spend regular time at Lavender Hill, a 200-year-old working farm and home to our herd.
These memberships are designed for people who want to be on the land and around the horses in a way that is unhurried and respectful. Members are invited into scheduled access windows to walk the property, sit by the pond, and spend time near the horses through grooming, observing, or simply being present.
This is not a lesson program and does not include riding. Time here is unstructured, with staff on site to support safety and care of the animals.
Memberships help sustain the land, the horses who live here, and the long-term future of Lavender Hill, while offering a place to return to month after month.
Why agricultural subscriptions matter:
So much of modern life is organized around outcomes. Even our rest is scheduled, optimized, and measured. Time on a working farm resists that. Nothing here is designed to entertain or extract attention. The land doesn’t respond faster if you rush it, and the horses don’t offer anything on demand. Unstructured time allows your nervous system to recalibrate without being told to. You move at the pace of weather, chores, grazing, light. What happens isn’t dramatic — it’s cumulative. Over time, the absence of pressure becomes the point.
On Unstructured Time
Horses live entirely in relationship — with each other, with their environment, with what is happening right now. They are not interested in your productivity or your story about yourself. They respond to what’s present. Spending time alongside them without a task or goal invites a different kind of awareness — one that’s grounded in observation rather than control. You learn by proximity. By watching. By noticing when the herd shifts, when it settles, when it moves away. This kind of time isn’t about doing something with horses. It’s about being near another way of inhabiting the world, and letting that quietly influence your own.
On being with horses
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Your Questions, Answered
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Membership typically includes access to our full library of digital content—videos, courses, resources, and any new material we release while you're subscribed.
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Definitely. You can switch plans, upgrade, or make changes to your membership anytime.
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Yes! We’re always expanding the library with fresh content, tools, and updates to keep your learning and inspiration going strong.
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Memberships are flexible and can be canceled at any time from your account. You’ll retain access through the end of your current billing cycle.
Grounded is for those who want time on the land to exist without pressure or expectation. It offers a steady relationship with place — one that doesn’t ask you to arrive with intention or leave with meaning. You come as you are, spend time as it unfolds, and let familiarity grow at its own pace.
Rooted is for those who value regular presence and ongoing connection. It reflects a choice to be in relationship with the land and horses through regular visits and shared time. This level isn’t about intensity or depth — it’s about continuity, and what becomes possible when a place is allowed to become a part of your life. Includes all the benefits of Grounded plus:
Steward is for those who feel called to help support the land and animals directly through keeping land accessible to farming. It acknowledges that places like Lavender Hill exist because people choose to take responsibility for their care. This level is about standing alongside the community and contributing to its ability to remain a working farm well into the future. Includes all the benefits of Grounded and Rooted plus: