Daisy Chain LTD

Our overall goal is to adopt handicapped and retired horses and give them a job helping people heal, love and grow in an open, creative and regenerative environment. We aim to build a sanctuary that will not only positively influence the lives of horses that are deemed useless by no fault of their own, but the lives of children and adults who in turn can make positive changes in their influence on our planet.

We are all connected... horses, people and Earth... so our mission at large is to help blur those lines of separation and build an undeniable sense of connection through our offerings. Daisy Chain Sanctuary is a registered 501(c)3 and has the determination to establish balance between underprivileged horses and humans with compassionate programs available to all.

ADOPT
We adopt handicapped and retired horses, or horses unable to continue carrying out their intended jobs, and give them a chance to act as the true teachers and healers that they are by connecting them with those in need through a wide variety of intimate programs that we offer.

PARTNER
We aim to partner with horse rescues, foster care organizations, veterans programs and sustainably focused organizations to make long-lasting connections that induce healing and growth for everyone. Our existing partnerships are blossoming, and our sights are set on developing even more meaningful and mutually beneficial relationships indefinitely.

CULTIVATE
Through these relationships we aim to build our very own sustainable farm and retreat where we can further expand the Daisy Chain family to more than horses, while having hands on learning available at our fingertips.

CONNECT
In today's society, we all struggle to some degree in establishing a sense of belonging, and feeling heard. Through our reconnection to Earth, horses and each other we can ease that sense and provide a supportive community to all. We offer our programs to all demographics on a sliding scale to further support our initiatives and each other.

1-5 years-

Adopt more horses- goal of 10 by year 5
Make more connections and build our team.
Build our programs to helping more people, goal of 500 foster kids per year?
Lease a larger(10 to 15 acres) property to house and expand our programs in the Denver Metro Area- this will become our home base and pilot for our long term goal of a 300 acre property within 3 hours of Denver.


5-10 years

Build our herd: 15 program horses, 10 rideable horses, 10 retired horses- at total of 35
Build our programs: Increase our numbers and demographics served. Add Veterens programs, Addiction programs.
Build our partnerships: Social workers, Senior Centers, Orphanages, Schools.
Add programs/ partnerships with other Equine/animal facilitators, EAGALA. GESTALDT,
Build Garden
Build Market/petting zoo
Convert a storage container into a bunk house for overnight camps, retreats and respite care.

Buy a satellite sanctuary camp and retreat-300 acres- grow hay, hemp, food, build sustainable cabins( tiny houses, earthships, cob houses, storage container bunk houses, and Earthship community center, build a market/ petting zoo.

Offer week long camp and retreats at the satellite sanctuary.

Susan Parker, our founder has 40 years experience with raising, caring for and training horses. From her first pony at 10 years old to the filly she raised and trained at 16, also taking responsibility for her families herd of 8 horses. Throughout high school she volunteered as a veterinary assistant for a large animal hospital, assisting in day to day equine calls and surgeries. At Colorado State University she worked in Animal Care at the vet teaching hospital and had courses in dressage and equine reproduction, furthuring her knowledge and experience. After receiving her Bachelors of Science in Microbiology she managed research laboratories for over 15 years, while maintaining and organizing the labs she also trained and mentored medical students students and staff from all over the world in technical laboratory practices and animal husbandry. In 2015, she attended the Earthship academy in Taos, New Mexico and assisted in building an Earthship in Salida Colorado. She recently received her certification in Equine Assisted Learning from an internationally accredited organization in Canada. Not only have all of these experiences given our founder the knowledge and strength to start Daisy Chain, they are what inspired her.

Our current herd of three horses make all of the programs possible. Each horse brings different perspectives and qualities to our programs.

Amber Tarver

Richard Mosko

Jim Chimes

We offered a day camp in 2019 where half the day the kids learned about and worked with the horses and the other half they learned how to be better stewards for our planet. For example, on one day, we had an expert from NREL come out and teach the kids about greenhouse gases and their own carbon footprint. They built a solar oven and made s'mores. There were nine children ages seven to fourteen in our ilot camp in in 2019.

In 2020 we weren't able to have any camps or programs due to COVID, but we did bring out families and individuals for short programs. Twenty families came out near the end of the summer of 2020 for grooming and ground work sessions with the horses.

In 2021 we had our first in person fundraiser for Foster Care Awareness month and were able to start our collaboration with Fostering Great Ideas and their program Siblink- where they bring separated siblings together once a month to do something fun and to see each other. We had our first group of 3 siblings come out for one of the sisters birthday, we went through orientation and safety and sang her happy birthday, it was great fun for all! We also have a partnership with Horizons at Colorado Academy where we offer a field trip/day camp for their middle schoolers. Horizons is a camp for low income families. This summer we brought out 60 middle schoolers for a day of horse programs and wildflower seed bomb making.