Rural Chic South Dakota

The Pasture — Spring 2026

The gate is open.

Horses · Highlanders · Tatanka · High Plains

Spring on the Northern Plains

The grass is deciding. The Highlanders have opinions. The horses are watching the grass and the buffalo mother has already decided for everyone. April out here is the season of almost — almost warm, almost green, almost done with waiting. May is when it all comes back at once.

The Pasture

Horses

Prairie horses in the season when new grass arrives and the whole herd has something to say about it.

The Herd

The Highlanders

Registered purebred Highland cattle with lineage to Scotland. Zeus, Apollo, and the cows and calves of the spring pasture.

Tatanka

Buffalo — Mother & Calf

She has survived everything the prairie has. Right now she is standing still so the calf can smell a flower. Both are correct.