My name is Brooke Chavez. I am an agriculture graduate from Delaware Tech in Georgetown. I grew up in Milford, Delaware where I still live today, and I have almost always had horses or ponies in my backyard. I have a wonderful Husband named Pablo Chavez, who also loves horses (his favorite is Tifi), though he is most interested in computers.
My interest in horses first began when my sister got a horse when I was young. I wanted to do everything she did and followed her into riding lessons. I loved learning to care for the horses and groom them, and was soon working in exchange for my lessons. I learned alot over the years working for a mid-sized riding operation caring for the animals, brushing them, feeding them, cleaning stalls and helping younger students.
My parents bought me my first horse when I was 13 years old, a 17 year old quarter horse named Call Me Burgandy. He was my little buddy, and we did everything together. Warm summer mornings when I would wake up to the crop duster overhead, I would run out to the pasture with nothing but a halter and lead in my hand and jump on bareback. We would race after the plane just to watch it duck and dive through the fields. He was a little girls dream. For several years, my sister and I enjoyed our horses together; me on Burgandy, and she on her first horse, Shenango.
Some years later, facing college and a changing lifestyle, I struggled to keep my horses in my life. This is when I began to teach riding lessons to kids to help buy feed, hay and other things horses need. I found out that I loved it and haven't been able to stop since!
I am now an ARIA certified riding instructor, and have been teaching for over ten years. My dream is that Shenango Way Farm can be a place where kids like me can see their dreams of riding and caring for horses come true. Horses are rewarding pets to own, but come with a HUGE responsibility. I hope to be able to equip those who dream of horses with the knowledge, skills and experience they need to make those dreams come true.
