Wilderwood Equine Therapy and Rescue

Wilderwood Equine Therapy and Rescue will open with a pilot program in March 2020 and for enrolled participants in September 2020 with a unique equine curriculum and therapy program designed by autistics for autistic teens and adults.

The program is for late teen and adult autistics who want to develop independent life skills, identify and achieve employment and career goals, and learn strategies to help navigate the neurotypical world while still remaining true to their autistic selves.

Now accepting applications for the June 2020 Pilot Program!
Please download the file below and email to wilderwoodequinetherapy@gmail.com.
Prefer a mailed copy? Call or text (505) 459-9813.

PARTICIPANT INTEREST FORM Download

Looking for a volunteer opportunity? Wilderwood needs you!
Complete our Volunteer Form and come join us.

NEW! VOLUNTEER FORM Download

7 Wildwood Lane, Peralta, New Mexico
Email: wilderwoodequinetherapy@gmail.com
Tel: (505) 459-9813
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Wilderwood Blog

A Little Joy

Excited to announce that Joy has arrived and is available! All proceeds from this memoir will be donated to Wilderwood Equine Therapy to help develop and deliver its programs for — and with — autistic adults. Like everyone, we are doing our best to keep the joy at Wilderwood during the corona quarantine and stay-at-home […]

Step by Step

step by step It’s a case of step by step, little by little for Wilderwood. Though we have been somewhat sidelined with the (necessary) restrictions wrought by the Coronavirus — resulting in our Pilot and Volunteers program being shifted to a later date — we’ve nonetheless been hard at work, continuing the projects that need […]

Mud!

Mud! Our major Mud Project is now completed! Below are pictures showing our completed MUD project: Before, During, and After. This was a major undertaking to solve a perennial and major problem at Wilderwood — and we did it! We have also completed our Tack Room project, with before and after pictures below to share […]

Autistic Strong

Autistic Strong Autistic adults are disadvantaged in our community on multiple social, economic, and cultural fronts. There is a general misunderstanding about autism in terms of it being perceived as an “invisible” disability. It’s often said that autistic people look “normal” or are told “you don’t look autistic” (whatever autistic is supposed to look like). […]

Raised Gardens Volunteer Day!

Raised Gardens Volunteer Day! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! — to our WONDERFUL volunteers at Wilderwood’s recent Volunteer Day to Build the Raised Gardens! By name, we’d especially like to thank Jayme, Joe, and Lee Anne. Thank you also to RockIt Stonescapes in Peralta for much appreciated discount and help with the gravel and […]

Getting Ready …

Getting Ready … We’ve been busy at Wilderwood getting ready! Our next Volunteer Day is Saturday, November 2 on a “drop-in” basis. We’ll be working from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on building the Raised Gardens! We’ll also ask our amazing volunteers to help us with the last remnants of clean up (moving branches to […]

Arena, Round Yard, Meditation Garden

Arena, Round Yard, Meditation Garden Check out the video below from our second Volunteer Day held August 31, 2019. Thank you to Gene, Paul, Ethan, David, Karen, William, Waid, Patsy, Waid Jr. and Peter for all your hard work!

Second Volunteer Day!

Second Volunteer Day! Getting ready for our Second Volunteer Day! Please help! Wilderwood needs YOU on Saturday, August 31, 2019, 9:00 a.m. to noon. Activities include: * Marking the arena with gabions* Painting the planter underneath the Wilderwood sign* Laying weedcloth and rocks in the Meditation Garden* Lining the roundyard with latilla panels and, of […]

Desmond, The Baby, and Sand!

Desmond, The Baby, and Sand! Excited! Took delivery of our Industrial Bin (rental) for our upcoming Volunteer Clean-Up Days and had the round-yard sand delivered. Desmond and The Baby (Viv) immediately set to work “helping” to spread the sand for us.

Visit

Visit to Colorado State and Temple Grandin Equine Center This month, we were very fortunate to receive a lovely invitation from the Temple Grandin Equine Center (TGEC) at Colorado State University. As an autistic person, this was a special place for Bec to visit as well as an opportunity to meet the splendid people and […]