Who We Are
Hi, my name is Kim Crawmer and I'm a Navy wife turned farmer! Our family consists of my husband, Steve, our six adult and teen children, their spouses and our nine (and counting) grandchildren.
All of my life I've loved and worked with animals, as a dog and cat groomer and grooming business owner, dog breeder, veterinary assistant, horse owner and breeder and owner of a large variety of pets and farm animals over the years. I was raised as a city kid in Memphis, Tennessee but spent all my summers and many weekends on my grandparents tiny homestead in the woods of rural Kentucky. It was my lifelong dream from the time I was small to own a farm. Little did I know when I married my husband, Steve, (who is from Maryland) that my dream would be put on hold for a very long time, as he would go on to spend 40 years in the Navy! (I came into the picture 10 years into his career.)
During those years we homeschooled our six children and dragged our two Arabian horses (and assorted dogs and other pets) all over the country, from one boarding stable to another and one side of the country to another, including a tour in Guam. For a time we owned a farm in Virginia, where I at last was able to realize my dreams of having my horses at home and having all our milk come from our own goats. But after a few years we chose to give up the farm to take orders to California so I sold my goats, packed up my horses and put my farm dream on hold for a time again.
Eventually Steve retired from his long and successful Navy career, we decided to make California our permanent home and for Christmas of 2015 all my dreams came true when we bought our farm. And in 2016 Prancing Pony Farm began!
All of my life I've loved and worked with animals, as a dog and cat groomer and grooming business owner, dog breeder, veterinary assistant, horse owner and breeder and owner of a large variety of pets and farm animals over the years. I was raised as a city kid in Memphis, Tennessee but spent all my summers and many weekends on my grandparents tiny homestead in the woods of rural Kentucky. It was my lifelong dream from the time I was small to own a farm. Little did I know when I married my husband, Steve, (who is from Maryland) that my dream would be put on hold for a very long time, as he would go on to spend 40 years in the Navy! (I came into the picture 10 years into his career.)
During those years we homeschooled our six children and dragged our two Arabian horses (and assorted dogs and other pets) all over the country, from one boarding stable to another and one side of the country to another, including a tour in Guam. For a time we owned a farm in Virginia, where I at last was able to realize my dreams of having my horses at home and having all our milk come from our own goats. But after a few years we chose to give up the farm to take orders to California so I sold my goats, packed up my horses and put my farm dream on hold for a time again.
Eventually Steve retired from his long and successful Navy career, we decided to make California our permanent home and for Christmas of 2015 all my dreams came true when we bought our farm. And in 2016 Prancing Pony Farm began!