Moon Horse Ranch

Moon Horse Ranch is a little ranch south of Santa Fe, home to painter Stella Maria Baer, designer Seth Reese, their three children, an appaloosa named Moon and Stars, a baby pinto named Sky, a flock of wooly goats, and two sheepdogs named Cosmo and Ursa Major.

Our vision for Moon Horse Ranch is a place where people draw closer to the land, one another, and themselves through what we call “Arts of the Land” Workshops. Taught by artist friends of ours, our workshops include Earth Pigment Paint Making, Hide Tanning, Natural Dye, Quilting, Moon and Land Photography, Herbal Medicine for Horses, and Fleece Spinning. These workshops offer ways to return to creative practices in relationship with the land. 

Our horses, Moon and Sky, were both rescued from kill pens. A portion of every workshop and print goes to their ongoing care. We love providing a place where horses regain health and run free.

Moon Horse Ranch is on ten acres, surrounded by forty acres of high mountain desert grasslands, with juniper, prickly pears, cholla, chamisa, and yucca and views of the Sangre de Cristo and Ortiz Mountains. These desert grasslands are home to black tail jack rabbits, bluebirds, coyotes, mountain lions, ravens, and doves.

The land south of Santa Fe is on the unceded ancestral lands of the Tewa people, who live in this region to this day. We support local Indigenous communities, including Tewa Women United and Indigenous Women Rising, and support the rematriation of all lands to their original peoples. You can learn more about Tewa history and culture at the Poeh Cultural Center. You can learn more about whose land you live on at native-land.ca.

We seek to honor the land where we live through providing freedom for slaughterhouse bound horses, shepherding wooly goats, growing a garden from seeds, and offfering a place where folks from all walks of life can learn artistic practices interwoven with the land and sky.