Simpli.life

12/11/2025

1 week old and doing amazingly. Theses babies were born premature and Mummy’s doesn’t have any milk to feed them. Bottle fed babies for the next 12 weeks 🍼🍼🍼

11/11/2025

The mare arrived on a Tuesday morning. Her coat was dull from the long trailer ride, her eyes scanning the horizon for something familiar that would never come.

“She’ll do,” the man said, running his hand down her flank like he was checking fruit for ripeness.

No one asked if she was tired.
No one noticed how she pressed herself into the corner of the stall, small as she could make herself.

On Wednesday, they put a bit in her mouth.
She tossed her head- the only language she had - but the hands were firm, and the metal was cold. Soon she learned that trying to speak only made the metal bite deeper. So she stopped speaking.

On Thursday, they put weight on her back. Her legs trembled; she had carried nothing before but her own fear.
“She’ll get used to it,” someone said - and she did, the way a tree learns to grow around a fence. Twisted, but still standing.

Friday brought the whip. Not cruel - never cruel, they would say - just correction. Go here. Go there. Faster. Slower. Stop asking questions with your body.

By Saturday, she had learned to obey the pressure before it became pain. She had learned that her fear didn’t matter, that her confusion was an inconvenience, that her body belonged to someone else.

On Sunday, she stood perfect and still while children climbed onto her back. The parents smiled and said, “She’s so gentle. So patient. Such a good horse.”

And she was good.
Because she had learned what too many beings learn too soon -
that the world doesn’t always ask what you need.
It doesn’t wait for your yes.
It doesn’t honour your no.
It just moves you from place to place, and you must choose whether to break resisting or break complying.

The mare chose compliance, as most do.

Years later, a child asked, “Do horses like being ridden?”
“Of course,” the adult said. “Look how calm she is.”

But no one had ever asked the horse. Not on Tuesday when she arrived. Not on Wednesday when they took her voice. Not on any of the days that followed.

And by then, she had forgotten how to answer - even if someone finally did.

We ask this of horses.
We ask this of so many beings who cannot speak our language, who cannot sign our contracts, who cannot say no in ways we choose to hear.
We call it training.
We call it partnership.
We call it love.

But maybe it’s time we call it what it really is:
a choice we made for someone who never got to choose.

10/11/2025

The Great Escape!! When you get caught red handed!!! And then pretend that it wasn’t you!!!

great escape

08/11/2025

Bomber and Cracker having some love with one of our team members ♥️
Cuteness overload!!


Intake Farm

07/11/2025

Picking the last of this seasons apple as a treat for the pigs 🐖

Intake Farm

07/11/2025

“An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.”
Martin Buber


Intake Farm

06/11/2025

The animal world shows us the potential we can unfold. But to learn from them, we must first learn to speak with them. ~ Ted Andrews

05/11/2025

Bijou gave birth to these beautiful tiny babies today early this morning.
Meet Cracker Barrel and Black Bomber ♥️♥️♥️

01/11/2025

🌟 BIG NEWS! 🌟

We’re absolutely over the moon to share that Simpli.life CIC has been awarded a grant from the National Lottery! 🎉💛

This funding means the world to us — it allows us to continue nurturing a space where people reconnect with nature, community, and themselves. Whether it’s sitting beneath the Hugging Tree, spending time with our animals, learning bushcraft, or simply breathing in the stillness of the land… your support helps us keep it all alive. 🌿🐾

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who plays the National Lottery — your contribution really does change lives. Because of you, Intake Farm can welcome even more souls to rest, restore, and remember what truly matters.

Keep watching this space — we’ll be sharing how the grant will support even more healing and community-focused experiences in the weeks to come. 🙌

With love and gratitude,
The Simpli.life Team
💛

📍Ipstones, ST10 2JT
📞 07795420664
www.simpli.life

Nature's Therapy.

16/10/2025

Intake Farm

Why not join us for an amazing back to nature session?

15/10/2025

Wow this is so very powerful and inspiring and this week here, on the farm we have witnessed this!

Trust is a relationship that is built from both sides!

What a week and it’s only Wednesday ❤️