A letter from the Department of Veteran Affairs

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Veterans Return

See all the photos: The Windrush Farm Horses for Heroes program continues with more than 40 men and women from the Bedford VA Medical Hospital attending six sessions throughout the summer. Designed to enable veterans to interact with horses as a way to build physical and psychological health, the clients start their afternoon with a [...]

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Horses for Heroes: A Place of Peace

Contributed by Hayley Barrett Horses have always carried soldiers into battle. Now the horses of Windrush are carrying veteran soldiers away from the trauma of the battlefield and toward healing and hope. Horses for Heroes, a privately-funded program, enables veterans to interact with horses as a way to build physical and psychological health. These veterans, [...]

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A Horse and Hero Journey

Trisha J. Wooldridge is a freelance writer who works with Massachusetts Horse magazine and volunteers for the Bay State Equine Rescue.  Her full article on Windrush Farm will appear in Massachusetts Horse with the October/November issue.  For more information on Trish, please visit her website  www.anovelfriend.com or her blog at novelfriend.blogspot.com.  She Tweets under @novelfriend, [...]

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Lights, Camera, Action!

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Horses For Heroes (H4H) Summer Finale

On Tuesday, 7 veterans from the Bedford VA Medical Hospital attended the final Horses for Heroes Session of the summer. The activities included long-lining, grooming and tacking, and therapeutic riding. Check out the pics!

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You’re Invited: Horses for Heroes ~ Aug 24 12:00-1:30

Our final Horses for Heroes session of the summer is Tuesday, August 24 from 12:00-1:30. Throughout the summer we’ve serviced close to 50 veterans and have seen some amazing results. Please join us and watch the program in action. For more information, email Jennifer Tartaglia at jennifer@windrushfarm.org.

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Horses for Heroes Session

Yesterday’s session went well with a number of new faces on the “ranch”. 

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Bedford VA Medical Hospital Take Two

It is “vacation week”  here at the farm. The week between the end of spring session and the beginning of summer.  But Windrush Farm is anything but quiet. So happy with the results from the Horses for Heroes (H4H) session at the farm earlier this month,  the Bedford VA Medical Hospital returned yesterday with a  [...]

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Horses For Heroes (H4H) Orientation for 14 Veterans

Today, 14 veterans from the Bedford VA Medical Hospital participated in a hands-on orientation at the farm.  The men of whom six were in wheelchairs, groomed and lead horses and enjoyed a hayride on our trails through the fields and woods to observe horses in their natural habitat. They watched a therapeutic riding lesson for [...]

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