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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
