through partnerships and connection with,
land and animals,
Building Health, Wellbeing and Communities
THE QUADRIGA VISION
Building strong communities around four principle pillars: land, dogs, horses and humans. We strive to revive and maintain the historic “fundamental” knowlege of nature, thereby weaving the threads of these interests together in a beautiful, synergistic system within which ALL thrive & benefit.
We live in a world of separation where entities and ideas are divided in and follow individual pathways. Much of the old knowlege has been forgotten as we moved to an often more dominanced aproach of care and training. Land is not reveared, but treated not as a living thing, but something to be conquered and manipulated and as a resource to be exploited. Nutriens that all life depends on are lost as systems break down and ultimatley fail leading to disease in ourselves and our beloved animal companions.
As we are seeing the slow surrender of this mostly dominance based modality, be it in land management, animal training, or how we were raised as children, there is a call back to a better way. We must recapture some of the old learnings and add and adapt them to ways to evolve and move forward in an increasingly challenging world.
If we follow natures guidance, realizing that we are not seperate, however all a part of a big system of deeply intertwined community, that relies on the wellbeing of other members, we can find our way back and produce something even better.
By nurturing connections and thereby building strong relationships with ourselves, others, the land and animals, we not only strengthen and empower ourselves as individuals, we lift the entire system by building joy and resiliance and communities that are inspiring to live in.
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Past Projects
Explore a curated collection of our past work, where imagination meets strategy. Each project reflects our drive to deliver thoughtful, effective solutions.
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The Atlas Project
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01/01/0001
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01/01/0001
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The Echo Project
UPCOMING EDUCATION
FREE. Fundamental Principles of Small Farm Composting. Watch for next date coming in July.
O1. Fundamental Principles of Healthy Farm Ecosystem Management & Proper Design
O2. Advanced Planning & Design
Restore. Support. Educate. Empower.
THE QUADRIGA ORIGIN
Quadriga Fundamentals has evolved through a blending of a passions for relational and classical horsemanship, dog sports & regenerative and permaculture based farming principles.
The name Quadriga pays homage to both my European Heritage and my love for Classical Dressage. The definition of a quadriga is four horses harnessed abreast in front of a chariot like those seen on the Berlin gates, or emerging from the fountains of Versailles. Versailles can be seen as one of the seats of Classical Dressage in Europe, as this endeavor was greatly supported in France at the time by monarchs such as Louis XIV. Antoine de Pluvinel was an early leader in this change by producing horses willing in their work rather than by the previous, forceful and often brutal methods. François Robichon de La Guérinière took this work of Antoine de Pluvinel and further finessed it. Guérinière was a leader of change in France and continued to champion a more humane training method of military horses, and was responsible for the development of the shoulder in exercise. He held the position of Equerry to Louis XIV until his death in 1751.
Quadriga Farm, which has now morphed into Quadriga Fundamentals, as it currently no longer owns a land base, started in Crestomere Alberta on 25 acres. We schooled horses here and hosted clinics in dressage and relational horsemanship and along the way developed a serious interest in managing our pastures to benefit the health of the horses and the land. We recognized that just like working “with” the horses in a more benevolent way as in this classical movement, we could work “with” nature as well instead of forcing it to our will. As in the horse training, this yeilded far superior results.
We eventually incorporated sheep and chickens and never used any chemicals on the property….or so we thought. With further education, we realized that chemicals not only come via direct applications such as herbicides, they also enter the system indirectly through vehicles such as animals when we use wormers, medications, processed feeds etc. With education and practice, we improved our forages and got a handle on the weeds and parasites without chemical inputs, but by using animals in an appropriate manner mimicking what nature would do. Our horses thrived!
The farm was sold in 2022 so that I could free up time and resources to seriously pursue these subjects. Having worked on oil and gas rigs and living in camps for many months of the year, I had also developed weight and health problems which I was able to address with nutritionally dense food grown well in healthy soils and thereby stimulated an interest in food grown and processed not just for animals, but also for us humans.
This then for me is validation that our horses and other livestock also benefit from healthy feed grown in healthy soils as everything is connected.
Healthy land is the fundamental foundation upon we build everything else, be it our own physical and mental wellbeing, or that of our horses, dogs….
A healthy you,horse or dog is going to perform to its higher potential to help us reach our goals!
QUICK ANSWERS
Our offerings are meant to serve you
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The courses offer and extensive overview of the basic concepts and science to give you the tools to see your land with different eyes and begin to make a new and improved management plan.
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Workshops are an in person dive into the same subjects as the course, in a group and hands on learning style. Along with informative pasture walks and demos, there will be opportunity to begin the planning of all the participants properties and collective brainstorming to help to cement the concepts.
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For in person pasture consultations, we will come to your farm and spend time with you to address your concerns along with pointing out possible issues. We will be helping with ideas for you to move forward with to maximize your properties potential. You will be provided with a personalized, comprehensive written report sumerizing the day, along with the main points of discussion for your files and future planning reference.
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Whether you are undertaking a new build, or are retrofitting and existing property, we can help you to make an efficient plan to suit your properties and your own best needs. We will come to your property discuss, and guide you as we collect information from you to help put together a working base map and future site map that best suites your needs. In the true permaculture spirit we will work with you to maximize your yields and efficiencies to build future resilliancy . .
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