Farming With Horses

With all of the much needed rain this new year we have been busy planting our grain which should give us a nice crop of Forage mix hay, wheat, oats, & barley. The last 3 years was a big loss due to the lack of rain. Tommy is discing with our 3 Belgians and a mule. We take in mules & horses that are already trained, they just need to be worked, of course we are still training mules & horses.

The other 2 pictures are of Tommy & Cactus seeding with the grain drill. The 4 abreast mules

belong to Roger Haley of the Haley Ranch. His mules & wagons are available for parades and special promotions. They were driven in the 2009 Paso Robles Pioneer Day Parade, hauling Miss Rodeo California & Miss Rodeo Salinas.

Keeping Up With The Times

For this new year of 2010 Harris Stage Lines has gone High Tech! Even though we still farm with our horses & cook on our wood stove we are updated with a new web site, complete with current calendar of events, you can register online, pay with paypal, read our blog, see us on u-tube, follow us on facebook,(sorry no Twitter, leave the Tweeting to the birds) send us an email, call us on our land line or cell phone, & best of all you can still come out & see us in person!

Photo Shoot On Site

On October 6, Founder & Director, Syl Arena of Paso Robles Workshops brought Joe McNally & the "Hot Shoe Diaries" photography workshop out to Harris Stage Lines to use us as a location shoot. Joe McNally is an internationally acclaimed photographer, whose career has spanned 30 years and included assignments in over 50 countries. Although the majority of his career has been spent shooting for magazines such as Time, Sports Illustrated, and National Geographic, in the mid-1990s Joe served as Life magazine’s staff photographer, the first one in 23 years. He also has shot commercial assignments for Target, Nikon, and Sony, to name a few. Joe is a recipient of several prestigious awards. We provided some wardrobe, horses, & a few models for the photography students to use at the different sites of our property. It was very educational to watch Mr McNally show the students how to create the correct lighting for their subject & location. In this picture of our Morgan horse, Molly, is Mr. McNally on the right, helping to get the correct lighting onto a black horse inside our old barn. We are always available to provide our horses and horse drawn equipment for the film industry. We have enjoyed training & preparing our horses for the different enviroments used in the film industry, and also working with the actors, models, etc.

Exciting Upcoming Events

September 9, 2009

CBS 5 / KPIX-TV of San Francisco will be filming Tom Harris giving Stagecoach Driving Lessons for their television show "Eye on the Bay". They are filming a show in Paso Robles showing off the highlights of visiting Paso Robles. It will include scenes of Hotel Cheval & Chester pulling the carriage in town. Chester is the Belgian horse, that is maintained by Harris Stage Lines.

September 19, & 20, 2009

Dainish Days in Solvang, California

Our Belgian team of horses pull the famous Carlsburg Beer Wagon throughout the streets of Solvang with the Solvang Village Band atop the wagon playing music for all the festivities.

October 10, 2009

Tom Harris will drive their team of Belgian Draft Horses pulling the carriage that the Ladies of the Barbary Coast ride on in the Pioneer Day Parade.

October

We offer Horse drawn hayrides right next door at River K Pumpkin Patch & Corn Maze. Come pick your pumpkins from the vine.

Daily in October.

November 7 & 8, 2009

Horse Driving Clinic, Learn what it takes to drive a single horse, a team, & 3 abreast. Beginner to advanced.