Great stewards of land create environments within which we can all flourish and thrive.

a regenerative paradigm

THE QUADRIGA MISSION

Our vision is to revive and maintain historic “fundamental” knowledge, combining them with good, modern technologies and practices to build healthy, flourishing, low input, increasingly abundant systems within which ALL thrive & benefit.

Nature is a self organizing and complex, highly interconnected systems that sustains life. Modern, farming practices have left the majority of our properties degraded and in a downward spiral, requiring an ever increasing amount of inputs to keep things going with ever increasingly diminished results.

Along with drudgery and labor, these inputs may include fertilizers, supplements, veterinary costs, herbicides, supplemental feed costs and much more.

At Quadriga Fundamentals, we strive to empower you through education and show you how to not only cut these in input costs, by improving the health of your systems, but also help you to begin the journey to an upward spiral of ever building resilience, health and wellbeing where things just get better and better.  We need to re-build positive, resilient communities and action on small holdings, be it horse, properties, hobby farms or acreages to realize this on a larger scale. Together we can make a substantial difference.  

A VISION OF THRIVING

My vision is to thread my love of horses, livestock, dogs and land together & thereby develop an educational, inclusive network to show how everything can come together synergistically.

We have had a lifelong passion for horses and the old, tried and true knowledge of the classical schools of riding and horsemanship. Keeping horses well and thriving in modern times is becoming an ever more challenging endeavor as land is continuously removed from the agriculture base and soils are extremely depleted due to decades of misdirected land stewardship.

We depend on the soil for all life and if it is to help us flourish, it must be revered. The saying is that “without life there is no soil, and without soil there is no life”. It is the keystone entity of our ecosystem of which we are not only all a part of, but are also all players within it.

At Quadriga Fundamentals we are integrating the old knowledge of nature, using both regenerative and permaculture modalities, along with with fundamental healthy, land based horse care and environmental stewardship. This is win win for the planet and all organisms that reside in these ecosystems, that together to make our lands strong and resilliant.

  • By definition, a quadriga is four horses harnessed abreast in front of a chariot like those seen on the Berlin Gates, or emerging from the spectacular fountains at Versailles. Versailles housed one of the first classical dressage school in France. The name speaks to my love for and beginnings in Classical Dressage along with my strong European heritage. Like any good ecosystem, there are many interconnections for me in this name, so it seemed apropriate.

  • Quadriga evolved through a passion for classical horsemanship and regenerative or conservation farming. Quadriga Farm which has now morphed into Quadriga Fundamentals as it currently no longer owns a land base, started in Crestomere Alberta on 25 acres. We schooled horses here and hosted clinics in dressage and relational horsemanship, and along the way developed a serious interest in managing our pastures to benefit the health of the horses. We eventually incorporated sheep and chickens and never used any chemicals on the land….or so we thought. With further education, we realized that chemicals not only come via direct applications such as herbicides, the also enter the system indirectly through vehicles such as animals when we use wormers, medications, processed feeds etc. With education and practice, we improved our forages and got a handle on the weeds without chemical inputs, but by using animals in an appropriate manner mimicking what nature would do. Our horses thrived! The farm was sold in 2022 so that I could free up time and resources to seriously pursue these subjects. Having worked on oil and gas rigs and living in camps for many months of the year, I had also developed weight and health problems which I was able to address with nutritionally dense food grown well in healthy soils. This stimulated an interest in food grown and processed not just for animals, but also for us humans This then for me is validation that our horses and other livestock also benefit from healthy feed grown in healthy soils. A healthy horse is going to perform to its higher potential to help us reach out goals.

  • We offer periodic online courses in addition to on site. customized, in depth property consulting and or planning services to help you to best maximize your assets and resources for optimum health. Live your dream and produce a beutiful, low maintenance, resiliant, healty property.

OUR FUNDAMENTAL OFFERINGS

FOUNDER & EDUCATOR

Edna Kaiser

Having an obsession with all animals, nature and especially horses, I have developed an extensive background in hobby farming, horse husbandry, classical riding, and various other equestrian disciplines.

We are all a part of these interdependent living systems and we can only thrive when we see to it that all of its parts thrive.

I left the oil and gas industry, and happily picked up the horses again. Many hours have been spent since, reading and taking in depth courses on subjects such as conservation agriculture, soil microbiology, permaculture design, grazing paradigms and equine wellbeing.

Regenerative agriculture addresses all of my concerns and interests by combining a fascination for the health of ecological systems, with domestic animals.  I desire to share my knowledge so that I can to help improve lives of animals, humans and the increasingly fragile world that we live in.

We are all a part of these interdependent living systems and we can only thrive when we see to it that all of its parts thrive. If we all do our little part, the whole will take care of itself.

I hold a degree in Earth Sciences and have spent several decades working in the oil and gas industry, feeling frustrated, watching the way resources are mined, the environment is treated, increasingly failing vitality, and missing the horses. Knowing that there was room for improvement in the degraded land seen all around, it lead to a quest to do things better and I redirected my knowledge to the pursuit of regenerative agriculture and permaculture.  

‘Without life there is no soil,

& without soil there is no life.’