Buckets of Love | Escamequita 2022

Buckets of Love | Escamequita 2022

Goal 250 bucketsFill Date: December 23, 2022Delivery Date: December 24, 2022 Christmas is about community.  Here in our community of Escamequita, we have a sharing tradition – we call Buckets of Love. We provide household essentials to our neighbors so they...
Is Escamequita in the Blue Zone?

Is Escamequita in the Blue Zone?

Saddle up a horse and ride along the trail through our town of Escamequita in Nicaragua (a ‘blue zone’) and you’ll find handmade houses, food growing in the yard and residents twice as likely as Americans to reach a healthy age of 90. Is it something in...

Escamequita Community School

Education is Essential. So is Water and Light. But they are not always available in rural Nicaragua. From conception, Big Sky Ranch has embraced a vision of enhancing the education in the immediate area to prepare the communities for a brighter future. Plans include a...

Therapeutic community riding lessons

At the very core of Rancho Chilamate and Big Sky Ranch is a love and admiration for the community around us.  We aspire to be a part of that community by not locking ourselves away from it but rather participating in it.  In this amazing country and in countries...

A Vision Ride to Big Sky Ranch

Reprinted with Permission from Brooke Rundle | San Juan Del Sur “Dig your heels in and lean back” said my friend Blue just before we descended the steepest part of the ridge on horseback.  I grabbed the back of my saddle with my left hand and tightened up on the reins...