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Double J Riding Club offers riding lessons, educational classes, camps, farm classes, and a Summer Camp Program that include activities such as Horsemanship 101, Farm Hand 101, Farm School, and Show Team. Children and families can also take part in Friday Farm Tour, Tiny Rider Lessons, one-time private riding lessons, 11 AM Wednesday Tiny Animal Adventures, Early Childhood Classes, Homeschool Courses, Community Group Field Trips, birthday parties, craft workshops, Scout Badge Opportunities, and seasonal events like the Spring Eggstravaganza. Additional classes include entomology, zoology, and ecology, as well as Tiny Animal Adventures, which is a caregiver and tot class held at the silo classroom.
• Ages: 1–18 years old
• Schedule: Friday Farm Tour and Tiny Animal Adventures meet during the day on Wednesdays and Fridays, with riding lessons and one-time private and Tiny Rider lessons available Monday–Friday before 3 p.m. and, weather permitting, after 3 p.m. Monday–Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday; general hours are Monday–Friday 9:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m. and Saturday–Sunday 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
During the Friday Farm Tour, families spend 45 minutes visiting animals on the farm, feeding snacks to several of the animals, searching for eggs in the chicken coop, spending time with sheep, visiting 50-year-old tortoises, coaxing pigs out of their Piggy Palace, and feeling the squishy tip of a horse’s nose, with animals likely to include horses, sheep, goats, ducks, rabbits, an alpaca, a Patagonia cavy, chickens, cows, pigs, a donkey, a mule, and more. For this tour, families are asked to dress for the weather, and waterproof shoes are strongly suggested. Double J Riding Club notes that it is a riding center and urban farm that provides the animals while participants “live the adventure,” and that it does not offer trail rides or boarding. Farm School is described as a learning pod rooted in the belief that children learn best when they can use their hands, imagination, and critical thinking to solve day-to-day problems, and the program states that it provides a safe learning environment for animal and nature lovers.
The leadership team includes Cindy Johnson (Owner); Haley Johnson (Riding Instructor, Event Coordinator & IEA Coach); Kathy Jachymczyk (Riding Instructor & Show Team Coach); Ryan Cunningham (Education Program Director); Sara Parks (Riding Instructor); Lisa Ostrego (Early Childhood Instructor); Brett Graves (Animal Outreach Coordinator); Grace Seter (Farm House Instructor); and Natalie Connolly (Head of Horticulture). Staff credentials include degrees and experience in hospitality and tourism management, environmental science and ecology, environmental biology, biology, zoo and aquarium studies, recreation management, environmental studies, and sustainable urban horticulture, agriculture, and environmental justice. The mission statement says Double J Riding Club is committed to offering safe, educational, and enjoyable classes on and off the horse, watching confidence grow through relationships with animals, sharing the farm with families and animal lovers, letting students experience close relationships with animals, allowing people to discover and explore their passions, and fostering respect for the natural world.
Riding instructor and Show Team coach Kathy Jachymczyk has a 2022 USDF bronze medal on her OTTB Sock Monkey, a 2022 ECP (Eventing Coaches Program) Level 1 certification, multiple USEA medals at beginning novice and novice levels on horses including Sock Monkey and Airborne Theory, participation in the American Eventing Championships with qualifications every year since 2018, top-10 and top-15 AEC finishes with TIP (Thoroughbred Incentive Program) awards, and Area 4 USEA awards including 2018 Beginner Novice Horse of the Year, 2018 Beginner Novice Area 4 Champion, 2021 Novice Reserve Champion, and a 2021 USEA Blue Ribbon Award.
Parent and participant testimonials describe Jr. Farmers Camp weeks that focus on different subjects with stories, crafts, science experiments, games, making homemade treats for the animals, feeding and visiting animals on the farm, and ending each day with a horse riding lesson. Other testimonials describe birthday parties with many animals and guides who are informative with the kids, riding lessons with patient barn staff who encourage children to be hands-on, a variety of skilled trainers and many horses for all levels of riding, and programs that introduce children to horses and outdoor experiences that kept even initially nervous girls participating in every activity.
Last updated February 5, 2026.
• Ages: 1–18 years old
• Schedule: Friday Farm Tour and Tiny Animal Adventures meet during the day on Wednesdays and Fridays, with riding lessons and one-time private and Tiny Rider lessons available Monday–Friday before 3 p.m. and, weather permitting, after 3 p.m. Monday–Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday; general hours are Monday–Friday 9:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m. and Saturday–Sunday 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
During the Friday Farm Tour, families spend 45 minutes visiting animals on the farm, feeding snacks to several of the animals, searching for eggs in the chicken coop, spending time with sheep, visiting 50-year-old tortoises, coaxing pigs out of their Piggy Palace, and feeling the squishy tip of a horse’s nose, with animals likely to include horses, sheep, goats, ducks, rabbits, an alpaca, a Patagonia cavy, chickens, cows, pigs, a donkey, a mule, and more. For this tour, families are asked to dress for the weather, and waterproof shoes are strongly suggested. Double J Riding Club notes that it is a riding center and urban farm that provides the animals while participants “live the adventure,” and that it does not offer trail rides or boarding. Farm School is described as a learning pod rooted in the belief that children learn best when they can use their hands, imagination, and critical thinking to solve day-to-day problems, and the program states that it provides a safe learning environment for animal and nature lovers.
The leadership team includes Cindy Johnson (Owner); Haley Johnson (Riding Instructor, Event Coordinator & IEA Coach); Kathy Jachymczyk (Riding Instructor & Show Team Coach); Ryan Cunningham (Education Program Director); Sara Parks (Riding Instructor); Lisa Ostrego (Early Childhood Instructor); Brett Graves (Animal Outreach Coordinator); Grace Seter (Farm House Instructor); and Natalie Connolly (Head of Horticulture). Staff credentials include degrees and experience in hospitality and tourism management, environmental science and ecology, environmental biology, biology, zoo and aquarium studies, recreation management, environmental studies, and sustainable urban horticulture, agriculture, and environmental justice. The mission statement says Double J Riding Club is committed to offering safe, educational, and enjoyable classes on and off the horse, watching confidence grow through relationships with animals, sharing the farm with families and animal lovers, letting students experience close relationships with animals, allowing people to discover and explore their passions, and fostering respect for the natural world.
Riding instructor and Show Team coach Kathy Jachymczyk has a 2022 USDF bronze medal on her OTTB Sock Monkey, a 2022 ECP (Eventing Coaches Program) Level 1 certification, multiple USEA medals at beginning novice and novice levels on horses including Sock Monkey and Airborne Theory, participation in the American Eventing Championships with qualifications every year since 2018, top-10 and top-15 AEC finishes with TIP (Thoroughbred Incentive Program) awards, and Area 4 USEA awards including 2018 Beginner Novice Horse of the Year, 2018 Beginner Novice Area 4 Champion, 2021 Novice Reserve Champion, and a 2021 USEA Blue Ribbon Award.
Parent and participant testimonials describe Jr. Farmers Camp weeks that focus on different subjects with stories, crafts, science experiments, games, making homemade treats for the animals, feeding and visiting animals on the farm, and ending each day with a horse riding lesson. Other testimonials describe birthday parties with many animals and guides who are informative with the kids, riding lessons with patient barn staff who encourage children to be hands-on, a variety of skilled trainers and many horses for all levels of riding, and programs that introduce children to horses and outdoor experiences that kept even initially nervous girls participating in every activity.
Last updated February 5, 2026.
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