From the Publisher

Welcome to the inaugural issue of Community Horse! We’ve combined Massachusetts Horse and Connecticut Horse magazines and we’ve added Rhode Island to our coverage.

Community Horse is your source for everything equestrian in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island! Published each spring and autumn, every issue features farms, horsepeople, and a comprehensive events calendar prepared exclusively for each state. In our directory, you’ll find a range of horse products, horse-related services, and equestrian businesses in our community.

Each lead feature will be a topic that touches each horse owner and will be specific to our region.

Every issue will have profiles of horsepeople — both professional and amateurs — and farms — backyard and large facilities — as well as a Trail Guide location for each state.

You’ll hear from Horse Logic columnist Nicole Birkholzer as well as other professionals with advice to impart.

We’ve moved to a smaller format to make Community Horse easy to take with you and to tuck into your truck’s door pocket. Every page is now full color and the paper is a joy to touch. (I say this as a paper connoisseur!)

This Olde Horse is a spotlight that will include a photo from each state. Check the Is This Your Horse? contest in the back of each issue to see if you’ve won!

Want to read just the sections relating to your state? The magazine is color coded with purple representing a feature for all three states, orange for Connecticut, blue for Massachusetts, and green for Rhode Island. Also look for your state’s icon in

the upper left corner of the first page of a section.

As we come out of a long winter and pandemic, I for one am happy to see the birds returning and the flowers poking up through the soil. Happy Spring!

Miniature horse Peanut halfway shed out in the spring grass at Pocketful of Ponies Farm.