Congratulations to Ashley Herman Griffin and Sally Hudson of Headlands Management as they begin their third season at Sonoma Horse Park. This forty acres site along the Petaluma River will be home to 7 hunter and jumper events this year. Sonoma Horse Park features 8 show rings and the venue’s active farmer’s market offers everything from between-class snacks or take-home meals for riders and family members. SHP is quickly building a reputation as one of the premier venues for equestrian events in the US.
One of the events held at Sonoma Horse Park raises funds for Giant Steps, which provides life changing Equine Assisted Therapy to people with disabilities. In addition to the August event, our restaurant Rickey’s is taking part in a Giant Steps Dine Around which will be held on the Wednesday of every Sonoma Horse program in the 2012 series. Diners must present the server with their Giant Steps Dine Around list and 20% of their meal will be donated to Giant Steps.
The Inn Marin is pleased to be one of the host hotels for this series of events and you can make reservations by calling (415) 883-5952 and ask for the Sonoma Horse Park rate.
Sonoma Horse Park 2012 Show Season
- Horse & Hound Spring (A) – May 9 – 13, 2012
- HMI Equestrian Challenge (A) – May 16 – 20, 2012
- HMI June Classic (A) – June 13 – 17, 2012
- HMI Equestrian Classic I (AA) – July 24 – 29, 2012
- Giant Steps Charity Classic (B) – August 1 – 5, 2012
- HMI August Classic (A) – August 22 – 26, 2012
- Strides & Tides (A) – September 12 – 16, 2012
The first thing you need to do is make your plan. What are you going to be planting: vegetables, flowers? Perennials or annuals? Yes, it can be overwhelming depending on the size of your yard or planting area.
Marin Clean Energy is coming to Novato soon!
On March 29th, Rickey’s Restaurant will donate 15% of all proceeds from both the bar and restaurant to 
Complimentary glass of champagne or non -alcoholic beverage
We have talked about our green initiatives in other issues of our newsletter and on our blog, so in this post we wanted to focus on Community Involvement and Community Give Back programs.
It takes some time to roll out a new procedure such as composting. First we had to define the areas that composting collection would take place and then we had to determine how big of a can we would need. We decided that In one area we needed to replace a garbage can with a compost can. In another location we found a new can that was the same dimension as our old one but it housed two 20 gal cans instead; one for compost and one for garbage. In other places where we had more space we were able to just use a smaller garbage can and then add the new compost can. 
