Low-Stress Living
Unhurried routines, compatible turnout, natural movement, and space to decompress.
A Personal Calling
“This farm is not mine alone—it belongs to the animals who call it home.”
— Kim Hoffman, Founder
Mohawk, Tennessee · Limited Enrollment
A beautiful next chapter.
A restorative place to pause.
Boutique retirement and recovery care in the Tennessee countryside— created for horses beginning their later years or simply needing time away from work to rest, reset, and feel like themselves again.
32 peaceful acres
Individualized care
Private nightly stalls available
Boutique Horse Retirement & Recovery
Mohawk, Tennessee02 — Rest & Recovery
Sometimes the best care is time.
A quiet place to step away from work.
Not every stay is forever. Hoffman Farms offers a low-stress setting for horses who need a restorative break, attentive observation, or time to recover under an established care plan.
Hands-On Oversight
Close daily observation, owner-directed feeding, grooming, medication support, and thoughtful progress updates.
Trusted Veterinary Coordination
Care is coordinated with Bridlewood Equine Veterinary & Podiatry Services. When a procedure or referral-level treatment is needed, Hoffman Farms can trailer the horse to the University of Tennessee Equine Hospital in Knoxville.
A Hoffman Farms Difference
Pasture life is learned—not assumed.
Many accomplished horses arrive having spent little or no time living freely on pasture. We never simply open a gate and hope for the best. Ten pastures in varied sizes allow each horse to gain confidence gradually and safely.
Settle
A calm arrival period establishes routine, trust, and individual needs.
Expand
Turnout begins in a manageable space and increases as the horse becomes comfortable with greater freedom.
Connect
Compatible companions are introduced thoughtfully, with close observation of behavior and comfort.
Belong
The horse joins an appropriate herd only when ready, with continued hands-on oversight.
Purpose-built peace
No lessons. No training traffic. No ordinary boarding.
Hoffman Farms is reserved exclusively for retired and recovering horses. The atmosphere is shaped around their comfort—not the schedules, activity, and demands of horses in active work.
Every routine, space, and care decision serves horses who are resting, recovering, or retiring.
Signature Care horses come in from the herd to sleep in an individual stall with thick natural bedding over a natural earth floor—never concrete.
Kim lives on the property, keeping care personal and the farm closely supervised.
The home overlooks the majority of the pastures, supporting frequent observation throughout the day.
01 — Our Philosophy
Retirement is not an afterthought.
It is a season of life worthy of intention, comfort, and joy.
At Hoffman Farms, horses are known as individuals. Their routines, relationships, histories, and changing needs shape the care they receive—every day, for the rest of their lives.
03 — Care & Services
Care that changes as your horse does.
Our intentionally limited enrollment allows us to notice the small things—and respond before they become big things.
Daily, Hands-On Attention
Individual observation, grooming, medication support, and—through the Signature Care Membership—a deeply bedded private stall every night.
Staged Pasture Transition
Gradually increasing turnout and carefully matched companions prepare each horse for confident herd living.
Connected Ownership
Meaningful photographs and personal updates, so distance never means disconnection.
04 — The Farm
Room to roam.
People who notice.
Set across 32 acres of rolling pasture in East Tennessee, Hoffman Farms offers the ease of country life with attentive, personal oversight.
32Peaceful acres
10Fenced pastures of varying sizes
Signature CarePrivate stall rest nightly
Gallery
Life at Hoffman Farms.
A closer look at the horses, pastures, thoughtful care, and quiet moments that define each day.
Stay on the Farm
Close to the horse you love
Two ways to stay, right here on the property.
Everything is located here on Hoffman Farms. Guests may stay in our renovated, furnished glamper or bring their own RV or horse trailer with living quarters and connect to the full hookup immediately beside it. A dedicated guest-horse pasture with a run-in shed is conveniently located alongside the glamper and RV hookup.
A thoughtfully renovated, furnished private camper available through direct reservation, with an Airbnb listing also planned.
Park immediately beside the glamper and connect a personal RV or horse trailer with living quarters to the full hookup.
A separate pasture in the same area is available for customers traveling with horses.
Farm glamper$125per night, plus applicable taxes and cleaning fee
Full RV hookup$45per night
Guest-horse pasture$30per horse, per night
Email directly:Kim@Hoffman-Farm.com
Meet the Founder
Kim Hoffman
A lifelong love, redirected by one extraordinary horse.
I grew up with horses, and my love for them has been a constant throughout my life—even as that life carried me around the world. While living in Africa more than a decade ago, I adopted my first off-the-track racehorse. That experience opened my eyes to the intensity of a professional horse’s former routine—the structure, the care, and the pressure—and shaped my deep respect for the patience required to guide a horse into a new way of being.
After a 20-year career as an American diplomat, living and working overseas across eight countries, I chose a more grounded, purpose-driven path. Today, this farm is not mine alone—it belongs to the animals who call it home. Everything here is built around their needs, their healing, and their freedom to live fully as themselves.
Kim Hoffman · Founder
Animal Welfare Guidance
Kenna Valles
Care informed by animal welfare science.
Hoffman Farms benefits from the guidance of an animal welfare specialist with a BSc (Hons) in Animal Behaviour from Anglia Ruskin University and an MSc with distinction in Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare from the University of Edinburgh.
Her equine research examined stereotypic behavior and environmental enrichment in stabled horses. With more than ten years of animal-care and welfare experience, she currently serves as an Animal Welfare Officer for the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, helping enhance the welfare of more than 100 exotic and domestic species.
Kenna Valles · Consulting Animal Welfare Advisor
A limited number of residents are welcomed
Let’s talk about your horse’s next chapter.
Every placement begins with a private conversation about your horse, your priorities, and whether Hoffman Farms is the right fit.
Request a Private ConsultationEmail directly:Kim@Hoffman-Farm.com