Join us for an old-fashioned show full of the fun events (no serious stuff)! Proceeds benefit the Orange County 4-H Natural Horse Addicts club. We’ll have games, obstacle fun, primitive camping, campfire, outdoor movie, s’mores and more! Sunday’s weekend finale will be a trail ride treasure hunt. Great prizes, ribbons, vendors and demonstrations! Registration form […]

Our last ACTHA competitive trail weekend event is October 10-11! We will have lots to offer. Some vendors, clinicians, 3 ACTHA rides, primitive camping, dinner, campfire, and more rides on Sunday! Arrive as early as 4 PM on Friday! For more details, visit our ACTHA page.  

Open House at the farm! Independence FUNie Farm is prou […]

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Thomas and I are starting another learning adventure to go along with our Indiana Jones Archeology! We have added movie making to our repertoire and are embarking on our first series. I use “our” lightly as this is all Thomas’ doing and I am merely a guide and facilitator in this process. Thomas’ love for archeology […]

    Yes. Moving. A whole farm. And what an ordeal it is. Why, we are asked, would you move your farm? Well, as it were, the beautiful, 60 acre farm we were leasing had some problems. Mostly problems with the owners who were temporary (life rights), older (like 80+), and while they enjoyed collecting an […]

Archeologists don’t get rich. Archeology doesn’t steal from the past, it opens it, so others can learn from it. – Ned (T. E.) Lawrence, Young Indiana Jones Chronicles – Episode 1. Thomas and I started our epic Indy journey today, streaming the first episode of the first season of the educational series “The Young Indiana […]

A bit of an intro! Our son Thomas (8 years old this month) has a fascination with God, religion, culture, mythology and archeology. For these topics, he is full of questions and healthy doses of surprising philosophy. It is no small wonder that he is also in love with the Indiana Jones movies – all […]

Our first camp is behind us! Since the farm isn’t ready yet, we hosted our first Science Adventure Camp at the Wilderness Resort. What a week it was! A week of fun, learning, adventures, and developing ideas to make it even better for the future! We got our name out using a local Groupon which caused a […]

I have to say that I feel blessed to have this handy little device with me every where I go. I have the Blackboard and Liberty apps that allow me to perform school tasks even if I am away from my computer. iTunes U allows downloads of course presentations among other things and there’s my […]

I’ve had it, this dream, for many years. In the dream, our farm is a hub of learning activities and family fun. There are cowboy tents for summer camps and a bath house, rolling hills, woods with trails, streams and a large pond with boats. There are extensive play areas for kids, beautiful landscaping, gardens, […]

I have to admit that home schooling (for me at least) has been fraught with struggles. The turmoil goes so much deeper than the classic “what curriculum should I use?” or “what should I teach this year?” questions. It comes from the disparity within me about school in general. Why do we choose to home […]

I have to admit that we followed our stomachs and taste buds on this one! My brother and his family invited us to a family beach party and they supplied the meats for the grill. The steaks were out of this world, like nothing I’ve ever tasted from a store. His freezers were full of […]

From Thomas: Here’s your local Independence FUNie Farm News! Independence FUNie Farm is definately a silly place. I once saw Mocha holding himself up on a log trying to eat a sandwich hanging from a tree while Oreo was head butting the chicken pen. He was trying to help Mocha get the sandwich, or maybe […]

It was pleasant, if not noisy, in the glass enclosure of the indoor pool. Outside, the overcast drizzly weather brought an uncharacteristically cool day for July. While it was a nice change after intense heat and drought, it was not the perfect weather for the outdoor pools at the resort. Normally, I’m in the water, […]