by Jeremy Hipes | Aug 11, 2026 | Barn Business
The last show of the season wraps, the trailer pulls back into the barn, and before anyone’s had a chance to hose off the travel dust, fall lesson sign-ups are already landing in your inbox. It’s tempting to slide straight from “show mode” into...
by Jeremy Hipes | Aug 4, 2026 | Barn Business
Your best trainer is loading the trailer Thursday afternoon and won’t be back until Monday. Three of your regular lesson kids are going with her. The rest of your program — the Tuesday adult beginners, the Saturday morning pony group, the boarders who just want...
by Jeremy Hipes | Jul 28, 2026 | Barn Business
The trailers are hosed off, the last camp t-shirt has been handed out, and your calendar has gone from a wall of color-coded camp sessions to something that looks… a little empty. If you run a lesson barn, late July and August bring a familiar kind of whiplash:...
by Jeremy Hipes | Jul 21, 2026 | Barn Business
Every barn manager knows the rhythm of camp season. The waitlist forms in February. The spots fill by March. By June, you’re turning families away and adding a fourth week you swore you wouldn’t run again. This year, for a lot of barns, that rhythm broke....
