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Martha Stewart has spoken on a number of occasions about keeping her Bedford Farm grounds full of animals — animals, we might add, that aren’t cheap to care for. For starters, there are her equine pets. As she wrote in one “Martha Up Close & Personal” post, “I have 10 residents in my stable — four Friesians, a Fell pony, and five Sicilian donkeys.” The horse family is notoriously expensive to care for — The Farm House estimates that it can cost as much as $8000 per horse, per year to house, feed, and care for them. It’s no surprise Stewart refers to them as “a huge responsibility.” Even so, she’s made it clear they’re worth the cost. “It brings me great joy to know that they are happy and in the best possible health,” she wrote. Money well spent, then!
Other than the equids, Stewart wrote in a November 2024 blog post that she also had “dogs, kittens, horses, donkeys, chickens, geese, and my peafowl.” That still wasn’t all, though. In a 2019 appearance on “Today,” she revealed that her animal menagerie included no less than 45 canaries and several flocks of chickens. Summing it up, she mused, “I have, oh, hundreds and hundreds of pets.”
If the sheer number of animals under Stewart’s care (which, BTW, she’s keen on increasing) comes at a cost, she certainly isn’t bothered by it. Multimillionaire status aside, she told “Today,” “I really care about them, I really take very good care of them, and they take good care of me, too.” It’s no surprise, then, that she joked that friends have told her they’d want to be reincarnated as one of her pets. TBH fact, we feel the same way!
