How to Green the Horse Barn

hand or use sheers or a scythe rather than using power tools. Check out the safety of biological controls.
Keep your facility clean and tidy. To prevent accidents set aside designated areas for tools and equipment away from areas of horse traffic. By preventing accidents you prevent the need for a vet call and medications. What has that to do with emissions? Itll save a drive for the vet and save the need for you to buy medications that have already left a carbon footprint through their manufacture and transportation from elsewhere in the country. Not to mention of course the savings in the pocket book.
Control of rodents waste or spoilage
Rodents get into grain chew wood and baler twine and nest in insulation. An infestation often leads to waste and spoilage requiring repairs or items having to be thrown away. Directly or indirectly the impact of rodents wastes money wastes time and wastes energy. They should be controlled either with traps or poisons that dont harm pets wildlife or the environment. Ideally practice proactive prevention. To protect grain store supplies in metal garbage bins with tightly fitting lids and keep supplies in sealed cupboards.
Conserve water
Keep taps and hoses turned off when not in use and check them regularly for leaks or drips. Roll up hoses. Collect rain in barrels and keep it for replenishing water troughs or topping up water buckets in the barn. Use discarded water on flower beds or around the garden. Barns are home for many birds so keep a shallow water dish for them too.
Consider how often you need to wash your horse. Is it really necessary? Can you do it with less water? For example a sponge bath rather than a full hosedown? Unless your water is on gravity feed each time you turn on a tap an electric pump is running somewhere and with it a power plant.