Welcome to 3G Farms

 

Three G Farms is an equine facility located three miles northeast of Ames, Iowa.  Our goal is to provide premier services for carriage drivers in Iowa and the Midwest.  We offer driving lessons and clinics for beginning, intermediate, and advanced drivers.  We are home to schooling shows, driving trials, and driving events sponsored by Best of Iowa in Traces Society (BITS) (For more information about BITS, please check www.bitsiowa.org.) 

Our vision is to be the center of carriage driving activities in Iowa.  Our mission is to offer services for carriage drivers that answer their needs for clinics, lessons, and places to enjoy their animals.

Horse training and lessons also are offered at Three G Farms, but, beginning January 1, 2009, Jada Neubauer (jadaneub@hotmail.com, www.midwest-driving.com has assumed those responsibilities. 

Those wanting a horse trained for driving or riding, or for individual lessons, will contract directly with Jada for those services.  Through an arrangement with Jada, Three G Farms will continue to sponsor clinics (Robin Groves) and events (the Snowdrift ADTs, the CDE Camp, the Skunk River Driving Trail, Games Galore, etc.) There is a listing of those events and their current dates on the Clinics/Events webpage (www.threegfarms.com/clinics).

This change should beneficial to all of us. Earl and Mary are getting too old to participate actively in training driving horses, so Jada has been doing all of the training for the past couple of years. She is a superb trainer whose reputation is growing quickly.  A good thing for all concerned! 

We are always asked, "What does Three G stand for?"  Before we found carriage driving, we raised and raced Trottingbred ponies, a breed developed by crossing Standardbreds with Shetlands, Hackneys, and Welsh ponies. We got involved in this activity because Earl’s dad, Walter Morris, who lived in southwestern Michigan, was racing the Michigan-Indiana Trottingbred circuit. One summer almost 30 years ago we took leaves of absence from our jobs to travel with Earl’s folks to the races. Earl’s son, Brian, also living in Michigan at the time, purchased a young trotter, which he named “Three G Summer” in honor of the fact that three generations would be racing together that summer. The pony is long gone, but the name lives on in our farm name.