Ken Snyder on Stable Recovery: Horses, Homeless Men, and a Kentucky Farm

Author Ken Snyder joins Barrett Freeman, Billy Hubbard, and Tera Padgett on PropertyTales to talk about why he wrote Stable Recovery: How Horses Transform Homeless Men Into Horsemen.
The book, published by Purdue University Press, tells the story of Stable Recovery at Taylor Made Farms in Nicholasville, Kentucky. Horseman Frank Taylor and Christian Countzler paired homeless men in addiction with thoroughbreds, giving them a place to live and real work in the barn. Snyder wrote it after seeing the program work, including a claimed 90-day sobriety rate far above the national average for live-in rehab.
He walks through how the idea started, why he put the men’s stories on the page, and what he hopes the book does for recovery programs and the horse industry.
Stable Recovery is available from Purdue University Press.
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