Levee Run Farm

Greenwood, Mississippi

Levee Run Farm

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Pastured Poultry page has information about our eggs, pullets, ready to lay, and meat birds.
Poultry Order Form - now taking orders for Spring, 2010
See the Camps for information about Riding Camps in 2010 at Levee Run Farm!

Leann Hines, owner and camp director, is now a Master Instructor certified by Certified Horsemanship Association to teach through Level 4 in both English and Western disciplines. For more information on CHA, go to www.cha-ahse.org.

Greenwood, Mississippi 662-453-9482 662-392-4189

lev.ee \'lev.e:1. an embankment for preventing flooding; a river landing place. Levee Run Farm was founded in 1940 by my grandparents and was then named Haynes Oak Ranch. I learned to love all animals from them - A. P. and Iva Haynes. There was a smoke house and chicken yard between the house and the old barn. A hog pen was approximately where my new barn is situated and peafowl had the full run of the place. There were still Jersey cows in the barn for milking and Hereford "white face" cattle in the pastures. I had my opportunity to pick cotton (for only a short while and swathed in clothes, gloves, and hat) and ride to the cotton gin. The smell of cotton brings takes me back there. There always seemed to puppies or kittens to load in a wagon or wag around in your arms. Granddaddy had a gang of little solid white Spitz dogs. The puppies were like little snowballs.

My first equine was Billy, a gray and white Shetland pony. Billy came by way of a raffle and came with a bridle and saddle outfit. I named him Billy because he had a beard of whiskers very much like a billy goat. I can remember being very exasperated because Jack had to lead me in the Christmas parade. By that time Belle had a foal that would be named Lady - my first chestnut mare.

In 1993, Katherine Barbour and I made the decision to start a horse trial. We both loved eventing and wanted to have not only a place to school our horses but to hold competitions. After a year or so of building cross country fences, mowing a track, and many other preparations, Jeri Byrnes came to visit. She was our Area Chairman at the time and gave us the "go-ahead." We needed a name for our horse trial. Levee Run came to us as a natural - the levee runs the eastern length of the farm and the track featured a nice gallop alongside the levee in both the Training and Novice levels. Levee Run Farm and Horse Trials it was! The world of eventing and foxhunting has many famous "runs". Champagne Run Horse Trials, Spring Run Hunt, Jim Graham's Meadow Run Farm to name just a few.

In the spring of 2000, we began making plans for holding summer riding camps. That first year we held several day riding camps in our old barn. They were well attended and we made plans to build a new barn. In January 2001, our 7 stall, center aisle barn was built! Campers from our first Spring Break camp are pictured below in the hallway of the barn. We hold Spring Break camps and June camps now with Horse Lover Weekends during the school year.

In 2009, we started our first pastured poultry! Our campers learn homesteading in our gardens and help to care for our egg layers, chicks, and pastured poultry. Please see our Pastured Poultry page and Poultry Order Form page.

Riding Camps and Clinics *** Riding Shop

Haiden, Alex, Mary Margaret, Jake, Richard, Lee, and Latte Royale.

Flashlight is one of our camp horses. She competed in eventing, dressage, walk/trot, hunter pleasure, and sport horse breeding classes. Her name is New Rezolution+ - she has earned the Legion of Honor achievement award.