Crawford was Anna’s mentor in the world of Natural Horsemanship and the biggest influence in Anna’s formative training years at the Monty Roberts International Learning Center in Solvang, CA.  As the Dean of students, from 1998-2003, he was paramount in the training of student and instructors alike teaching every facet of equine behavior and care including nutrition, conformation, anatomy, breeding, foaling, grooming, shoeing, stabling, general veterinary care and much more.

Having over half a century of experience in the world of the equine, “Craw” (as his friends know him) has worked as exercise rider and assistant to famed trainer Greg Ward of the Ward Ranch, trained and showed reigning cow horses, winning several prestigious events and oversaw cattle on horseback for the JG Boswell Company feedlots (just to name a few of his achievements).He experienced wild mustangs on ranches in California, as well as in their native habitat  in central Nevada. He has observed the programs supervised by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and has habituated some of these horses into domesticity on Flag Is Up Farm.Crawford is based in the beautiful Santa Ynez Valley in California where he provides personal consultations.