Blue Star Equiculture is an all-volunteer non-profit organization. Everyone involved has committed their time and resources to help the horses have the best healthcare, food, shelter, and love possible.

Below you will find a listing of our unpaid staff, advisory board, and Board of Directors.  We are currently building our advisory board, and Board of Directors.  The Board of Directors currently includes Pamela Rickenbach (President and Executive Director), Christina Hansen (Vice President), and Shelley Olson (Treasurer).

Pamela is the co-founder and Executive Director of Blue Star Equiculture. She is the director of the farm's equine and organic operations. She lives on Burgundy Brook Farm and lives for the horses! Email Pamela at rickenbach2@hotmail.com

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Christina is the co-founder of Blue Star Equiculture. She lives and works in Philadelphia, but tele-commutes and real-world commutes to Massachusetts. She's Blue Star Equiculture's webmaster, editor, grand strategist and historian. Email Christina at christina@equiculture.org.

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Shelley is our accounting guru. She uses her business acumen to help us keep all of our records in order. She instantly fell in love with Mike and the feeling is mutual. She recently adopted Maddie and will be moving her to her new home in Monson.

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David Milos has been a hardworking and successful entrepreneur his entire life. He is the man behind the scenes at Blue Star, and is fully dedicated to making the Blue Star mission a success.

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Justin Morace comes from the graphic/web design community and brings a deep knowledge of visual communications across a variety of media. He also brings 6 years of experience as a carriage driver in historic Philadelphia. Justin works with our big boys, Tom and Iceman, and also teaches horseback riding.

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Sally is Blue Star Equiculture's driving trainer. She has been training Morgans in harness for 30 years and has been lending her vast expertise to Blue Star Equiculture to train Peggy to work in harness and train us to teach our horses, too!

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Sam is our expert in permaculture. He is designing and developing a permaculture planting on the farm that can be used for teaching and demonstrations.

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Kate is Blue Star Equiculture's bee keeper, naturalist and all-around handywoman. If there's something that needs to be built on the farm or a carriage that needs repair, Kate's the one we turn to!

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Shalyn may be one of the youngest of our dedicated team, but she is certainly one of our most enthusiastic! Shalyn has generously allowed all of us to get to know TLA. In turn, Shalyn has become great friends with Bud, Jesse, Cupcake and all the Blue Star herd.

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