About Us
GENERAL
4Mile Farm is a company run just outside of Gracemere QLD, and is centrally Located 10 minutes south of Rockhampton on 104 picturesque acres with seasonal creeks and lagoons. It is a small family owned business who have the communities best interests at heart.
4Mile Farm is a community access venture/centre which hosts and is open to a variety of visiting sub contractors, clinicians, allied health professionals, equine professionals, local schools, boarding school students, community groups, private participants, NDIS participants as well as visiting NDIS groups from other local orgs. 4Mile Farm is a centre and a safe space away from the hustle and bustles of town. For some students, it is a "home away from home".
We work from the farm for some of our programs or part of and off site also. We hire out the centre to others to run different and varied programs, lessons professional development days and clinics . We also live on site and share our home, our farm, our business and our life with the public and through social media and this website because we host such a variety of visitors to the complex.
NDIS
We do not offer animal or equine therapy. Our programs are hosted by 4Mile, but not limited to the centre as they have a focus on capacity building and social and community engagement as well as building relationships. We work majority of the time 1:1 with our participants depending what our participants want, needs, and goals are. Small Groups are also welcome to participate at the centre.
The Confidence through Competence Program - "Growing Skills", Seed Sow Sprout Grow", "Reduce Reuse Recycle", "Out of Trouble into the Saddle" Programs
Our programs builds competence through doing and through our close mentoring and nurturing guidance to build confidence by having a go at new things. It focuses on allowing participants to take part in skills-based learning while assisting the development of, and increasing, a participant’s skills and/or capacity for independence and community participation. The program is designed to mentor and build relationships and trust, in self, and others while building an array of hands on and everyday life skills for independence and being job ready as well as having more confidence to pursue everyday life and ones dreams.
4Mile Farm is a company run just outside of Gracemere QLD, and is centrally Located 10 minutes south of Rockhampton on 104 picturesque acres with seasonal creeks and lagoons. It is a small family owned business who have the communities best interests at heart.
4Mile Farm is a community access venture/centre which hosts and is open to a variety of visiting sub contractors, clinicians, allied health professionals, equine professionals, local schools, boarding school students, community groups, private participants, NDIS participants as well as visiting NDIS groups from other local orgs. 4Mile Farm is a centre and a safe space away from the hustle and bustles of town. For some students, it is a "home away from home".
We work from the farm for some of our programs or part of and off site also. We hire out the centre to others to run different and varied programs, lessons professional development days and clinics . We also live on site and share our home, our farm, our business and our life with the public and through social media and this website because we host such a variety of visitors to the complex.
NDIS
We do not offer animal or equine therapy. Our programs are hosted by 4Mile, but not limited to the centre as they have a focus on capacity building and social and community engagement as well as building relationships. We work majority of the time 1:1 with our participants depending what our participants want, needs, and goals are. Small Groups are also welcome to participate at the centre.
The Confidence through Competence Program - "Growing Skills", Seed Sow Sprout Grow", "Reduce Reuse Recycle", "Out of Trouble into the Saddle" Programs
Our programs builds competence through doing and through our close mentoring and nurturing guidance to build confidence by having a go at new things. It focuses on allowing participants to take part in skills-based learning while assisting the development of, and increasing, a participant’s skills and/or capacity for independence and community participation. The program is designed to mentor and build relationships and trust, in self, and others while building an array of hands on and everyday life skills for independence and being job ready as well as having more confidence to pursue everyday life and ones dreams.
What our farm offers-
- Confidence Through Competence Program - "Growing Skills", Seed Sow Sprout Grow", "Reduce Reuse Recycle", "Out of Trouble into the Saddle" Programs
- Pony Club Riding Centre Program (Must be a member of Pony Club Australia)- Building social skills and community within the wider community of rockhampton while following a curriculum through the certificates.
- Horses Helping Humans Program- EAL- A program focused on self regulation, understanding energy and communication skills as well as personality profiling.
- Equine Dental
- Horse Breaking
- Equine facilities for outside farriers, vets, clinicians to use and school horse hire for onsite clinics and coaches such as Tan- A Lou Performance Horses
- Horse Agistment
- 4Mile Farm is a community access venture/centre which hosts and is open to a variety of visiting sub contractors, clinicians, allied health professionals, equine professionals, schools, boarding school students, community groups, private participants, NDIS participants as well as visiting NDIS groups from other local orgs.
- Equine Centre- 4Mile Farm hosts Benix Equine Dental and horse breaking, is an accredited Pony Club Riding Centre and a horse agistment property. It also hosts equine clinicians and allows the CQ area with a base for farriers and vets to work on horses coming from outside the area. Horses are NOT NDIS CLAIMABLE. Benix is a subcontractor to 4Mile Farm PtyLtd for private paying customers.
