Ranch Tour 2011

 

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Norco is an interesting city about 15 miles from us. It is interesting in that it is a horse community. Instead of sidewalks there are horse trails. A home owner can ride their horse into town and tie up at one of the many hitching posts. In 2003 Norco became a charter city for the purpose of protecting and preserving animal keeping rights. The charter has provisions in three areas; horse trails, lot size and animal keeping rights. In order to change any of those provisions requires a super majority of 4/5 vote of city council.

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The Friends of Norco Hills has an annual ranch tour we decided to go to this year. We didn't know what to expect and it turns out they are all equestrian ranches. One stop is the local high school which has an agricultural department on 8 acres. The ag dept has a nursery, livestock pens, greenhouse, swine unit, hen house and other ag related things.

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I am not sure what we expected, but being a horse community and this was a ranch tour all stops were horses. So my pictures are all horses. It was interesting to be driving around this community so close to us that we had never really visited before. The cities name is an abbreviation for NORth COrona.

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