The Dingle Family Farm and Stables – Horse Camps & Youth Farm Experiences
The Dingle Family Farm and Stables, 3630 Brown Road, Oakley, CA 94561
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The Dingle Family Farm and Stables – Horse Camps & Youth Farm Experiences includes horseback riding, farm animal time, games, crafts, and farm tours. Activities can include petting zoo visits, pony ride time, picking a pumpkin to take home, viewing holiday lights, drinking hot cocoa, and animal husbandry classes. Horseback riding lessons cover grooming and preparing the horse, leading and groundwork, mounting and dismounting, balance, posture, steering, basic riding skills, and horse care and barn responsibility, along with confidence-building activities. Pony-focused options include petting, grooming, and riding a pony, as well as glamorizing a pony with paint, glitter, and costumes, and there are also field trip educational days, a mobile petting zoo, and a mobile pony service.
• Ages: 5–17 years old
• Schedule: 1-hour farm tours with petting zoo and pony ride time; 1-hour private farm tours with a pony; 3.5 hours of covered party area use with 1 hour of petting zoo and pony ride time; 1-hour farm tours with petting zoo and pony ride time plus 30 minutes of covered party area use; 30-minute pony ride sessions with petting, grooming, and riding; 30-minute petting zoo sessions; 30-minute pony glamorizing sessions; evening Holiday Lights appointments from 5–7 p.m. in December
• Price: Chicken eggs: $8 a dozen; Duck eggs: $1 each or $10 a dozen
The program is family owned and operated and is exclusively for private events with visits by appointment only. Horse camps are open to ages 5–17, and riders are split into age-appropriate groups. Seasonal themes include a Spring “Mad Hatter” experience with decorations, tea, cookies, and coloring pages or a craft from March 10th to May 31st, a Fall “Fall Farm Fun” experience in October with fall decorations and a pumpkin patch where each child can pick a pumpkin to take home, and a Winter “Holiday Lights” experience in December with holiday lights, decorations, theme music, hot cocoa, cookies, and a craft area. Farm parties or events can host up to 60 guests, and pony rides are for riders weighing up to 130 pounds, led by a trainer on a lead line in the main arena.
The Dingle Family Farm and Stables offers homeschool classes and community service opportunities, field trip educational days for groups of 20 or more, and services for residential, corporate, community events, and large parties. Mobile options include a petting zoo, pony service, and alpacas for event mobile services, with wedding alpacas available to be brought to event locations with optional bowtie and flower wreath costuming. Animal husbandry classes can be taken as an elective, private horseback riding lessons are customized to each rider’s ability and comfort level, and there is a Fall Horse Lesson Waiting List with priority based on order of request that does not guarantee a specific day or time. The program is a Visions Vendor and also offers farm-raised cage-free chicken and duck eggs.
Last updated July 31, 2026.
• Ages: 5–17 years old
• Schedule: 1-hour farm tours with petting zoo and pony ride time; 1-hour private farm tours with a pony; 3.5 hours of covered party area use with 1 hour of petting zoo and pony ride time; 1-hour farm tours with petting zoo and pony ride time plus 30 minutes of covered party area use; 30-minute pony ride sessions with petting, grooming, and riding; 30-minute petting zoo sessions; 30-minute pony glamorizing sessions; evening Holiday Lights appointments from 5–7 p.m. in December
• Price: Chicken eggs: $8 a dozen; Duck eggs: $1 each or $10 a dozen
The program is family owned and operated and is exclusively for private events with visits by appointment only. Horse camps are open to ages 5–17, and riders are split into age-appropriate groups. Seasonal themes include a Spring “Mad Hatter” experience with decorations, tea, cookies, and coloring pages or a craft from March 10th to May 31st, a Fall “Fall Farm Fun” experience in October with fall decorations and a pumpkin patch where each child can pick a pumpkin to take home, and a Winter “Holiday Lights” experience in December with holiday lights, decorations, theme music, hot cocoa, cookies, and a craft area. Farm parties or events can host up to 60 guests, and pony rides are for riders weighing up to 130 pounds, led by a trainer on a lead line in the main arena.
The Dingle Family Farm and Stables offers homeschool classes and community service opportunities, field trip educational days for groups of 20 or more, and services for residential, corporate, community events, and large parties. Mobile options include a petting zoo, pony service, and alpacas for event mobile services, with wedding alpacas available to be brought to event locations with optional bowtie and flower wreath costuming. Animal husbandry classes can be taken as an elective, private horseback riding lessons are customized to each rider’s ability and comfort level, and there is a Fall Horse Lesson Waiting List with priority based on order of request that does not guarantee a specific day or time. The program is a Visions Vendor and also offers farm-raised cage-free chicken and duck eggs.
Last updated July 31, 2026.
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