Chelsea Ferguson
Back to My Roots
I moved to Oklahoma a decade ago, hoping to become a professional horse trainer. As you can see, this isn't a horse training website. My journey to starting my own business has been long and winding. As a girl, I caught the horse bug from a pony named Simone at Armstrong Stables in Fresno, California. The horse world opened the door to the agriculture world, and I finally felt at home during my first year of high school as a member of the Yosemite FFA chapter.
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My passion for horses carried me through community college in Quincy, California, and on to Oklahoma in 2014. I fell in love with Oklahoma while working as an assistant trainer and traveling veterinarian assistant in the performance horse industry.
When I decided to return to college, choosing Oklahoma State University was a no-brainer. I majored in agricultural communications and graduated in 2021 with a Bachelor's in Agriculture Sciences and Natural Resources from OSU's Ferguson College of Agriculture.
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Our professors prided themselves on providing us with an education that they described as "an inch deep and a mile wide." While attending OSU, I became interested in journalism and interned with KOSU Radio in 2020 through graduation.
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After graduation, I worked for Ron Hays and KC Shepherd as a reporter for the Oklahoma Farm Report. There, I took a crash course in nearly everything in Oklahoma agriculture—from beef cattle operations to cotton and wheat to Christmas tree farms.
When a position on KOSU's development team opened up, I took it. There, I began developing and managing KOSU's Instagram page and fell in love with the challenge social media poses. The rest is history!
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FergField Social is my way of siphoning my skillset back into my community. By helping local businesses succeed digitally, I feel like I am strengthening rural Oklahoma—the place I enjoy the most.
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My original dream of being a country girl is still the goal. My husband and I are working toward owning land where we can hunt, fish, and grow our own food.
