Our History:
Prairie Oaks Beginnings: Mike Forti retired
from UPS management and has since been living his dream as a General Contractor. Now Mike, being Mike, is always looking for
new projects to keep him working and playing with his "toys" aka tractors and power tools. Mike purchased the first
10 acres with the run down dairy barn in 2000 not knowing if it would turn back into a dairy barn, horse barn or into
a landscaping company. Luckily the previous owners had put a new metal roof on the barn so even though it was run down it
was bone dry. He just went to work repairing the damaged wood and adding new supports to fortify the building. We then finished
the lower level and rehabbed the original stalls and added more to create a total of 15 stalls, a tack and feed room, a finished
office upstairs and turned the original milk room into a club room.
In the years we
were working to get the dairy barn back on it's feet, Mike also purchased 6 more acres adjacent to the original 10. In
2005 he built an indoor arena with 17 additional stalls. Today we now have 32 stalls in the two different barns, a round pen,
two outdoor arenas, one indoor arena and 10 grass turnout paddocks all with 4 rail wood fencing including one that has all-weather
footing. Three of those paddocks have run in sheds.
To
his daughter's delight (one of the few horse people in the family) the years of the families blood sweat and tears turned
the barn into what it is today, a premier horse boarding facility.
