The Field Journal

Celebrating Polo, Food and Fashion

We kicked-off Stick & Ball’s Summer Polo Season at San Francisco’s The Battery SF last week with our new events and travel partner, Mandarina.  The camaraderie of everyone coming together and c...

California's Wine Regions

Fall is a special time of year on the California Coast.  The golden, West Coast sun casts its finishing touches on fall bounties from applies to avocados, mission figs to medicinal marijuana, and ...

Sweater Collection

In designing our first sweater collection, I had a few things in mind— beautiful pieces you can wear day to evening, classic silhouettes with contemporary design details, a comfortable but stylish ...

Springtime at the Ranch

  In Northern California, spring means rolling hills carpeted in long, verdant grasses with fiery orange California poppies waving in unison with the wind.   We finally managed to capture our lates...

Windsor Charity Polo

In some ways, Florida feels a million miles away from California but in others, it feels just like home. My rendezvous in this palm tree and sea breeze paradise kicked off with the Windsor Charity...

2017: Reflecting

2017 was a powerful, dynamic year.  We weathered fires in California and the Northwest, floods in Houston and the Southeast and massive political storms in D.C. and throughout our country.  The for...

Entertaining in Season

Throughout my childhood in the South, the change of seasons was always punctuated by what was being harvested in the garden and the choice of fresh seafood and wild game available in certain months...

Alpaca: Peru's Fabulous Fiber

As a brand founded on an enchantment with horses and the lifestyle surrounding them, there is another animal that figures prominently in Stick & Ball's inspiration and collection: the alpaca. S...

Coast & Ranch: Polo in Santa Barbara

I was over the moon when the invitation came earlier this year from Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club to participate in their final matches and festivities of the 2017 polo season. What a perfe...

Leather Love

"I love the smell of leather" is often one of the first things we hear from visitors to the Stick & Ball flagship store and our pop up shops around the country. It's a scent inextricably tied ...

Hamptons & Greenwich

The East Coast is steeped in heritage and tradition and by no means is there an exception when it comes to equestrian sports.  Two of the largest outdoor equestrian social scenes, the Hampton Class...

Aspen Valley Charm

My children and I escaped the summer heat by traversing the Rockies on our tour of polo clubs in the Northwestern United States.  Our Stick & Ball Airstream Northwest Polo Tour has taken us fro...

Farm to Fieldside Jackson Hole

Magical things began to happen when I crossed over into Wyoming on this "Airstream Wild West Polo Tour".  I fell head over heels with the polo fields of Sheridan and Jackson.  From the Big Horn and...