November 2011
33 posts
Apply for an internship at the sanctuary this...
Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary is pleased to announce our Winter 2012 Internship Program. If you thrive on new experiences, want to make a difference in the lives of animals and are interested in learning more about nonprofits, this is the opportunity for you. Find out more here!
Cyber Monday Special: 2-for-1 Sanctuary Animal...
Starting today, a generous anonymous supporter of the sanctuary will offer an opportunity for holiday giving. For the next seventeen individuals who sponsor a rescued rabbit, chicken, turkey, guinea fowl or duck, our silent donor will sponsor an additional rescued animal of the sanctuary in your honor.
Sponsorships make marvelous holiday gifts for your animal-loving family and friends. You can...
Pattie's Plight: Rabbit's ears cut off with...
Pattie is among the 114 rabbits rescued from an Aptos, Calif. breeder facility earlier this month. Post-rescue, she found refuge at Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary. This gentle girl is available for adoption starting this week.
During her hellish life at this breeding operation, Pattie endured intense suffering. Todd Stosuy, field services manager for the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter,...
A Cornucopia of Compassion
A special note of thanks to D.O.V.E. Distributors and our amazing supporters for helping us raise $1,000 this week with our Thanksgiving Feast Drive. Each of the individual donations (Online: $246, Offline: $254) were doubled by our friends at D.O.V.E. Distributors. By reaching our fundraising goal, we can feed the sanctuary’s animals for two months. Please visit our blog this Friday,...
Black Friday goes to the birds
Happy Black Friday from Boris, Brock and Brooklyn—three of our chicken youngsters. In the photograph featured in today’s blog, it appears this feathered threesome is spiriting off to a sale. In reality, it’s just feeding time at the sanctuary. These growing birds are hungry!
For the busiest shopping day of the year and throughout the holiday season, Harvest Home Animal...
From Our Flock to Yours: Happy Thanksgiving &...
Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary opened its barn doors on Thanksgiving Day seven short years ago. We haven’t looked back. Our focus and passion for helping animals will always point towards the future. That’s our promise and our purpose. Thank you for joining us on this compassionate journey.
Maui the Tomboy?
On occasion, Maui the Turkey Hen struts like she is a male. This photograph is not the best image ever featured on our blog. But, it’s awesome to see Maui caught on film acting like a tom.
Our favorite tomboy has a special request for you. Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary turns 7-years-old on Thanksgiving Day. Maui wants you to celebrate our birthday with a donation of $7.00, $70.00 or even...
FOX40 News-Sacramento: Baby Turkeys Saved Just... →
Cristian Tapia FOX40 News
November 22, 2011
STOCKTON—
Eight baby turkeys will get to survive this, and many more Thanksgiving holidays to come, thanks to a local animal sanctuary. The Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary in Stockton rescued the brutally-mutilated baby turkeys about a week and a half ago. They were left at the sanctuary gate. A worker at the sanctuary says the turkeys are just a...
A Portrait of an Old Man
“A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.” - Maurice Chevalier
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The sanctuary said goodbye to our oldest and sweetest resident: Abe the 21-Year-Old Goat. Over the summer, we welcomed Abe from his former residence...
Sanctuary November 2011 E-News: Read it, share it....
There is absolutely no shortage of good news to share this month:
Our new logo was unveiled at the 2011 Toast to the Turkeys Celebration. The new design reflects our focus of rescuing often-overlooked animals like rabbits, chickens and goats.
Throughout the month of November, Cinnaholic will be donating 50% of all baby bun sales to the sanctuary’s rescue work.
Lena and Lewis the...
The names of our ex-factory farmed baby turkeys...
Thank you to everyone who submitted name ideas for our ex-factory farmed baby turkeys at the 2011 Toast to the Turkeys Celebration and online. The selected names are Lanai, Kelly, Sunol, Kaanapali (Nickname: Pali), Lou, Kailua, Madison, and Liberty!
Harry Potter book series graphic artists design...
Our friends at Woop Studios, the Harry Potter book series graphic designers, created a custom print in honor of our sanctuary’s rescue work for turkeys. In the words of Woop Studios, learn more about this special piece of artwork:
“This original design by Woop Studios is printed on Hahnemule archive fine art paper. We use pigment inks on 308gsm pure cotton, acid free paper to...
Virtual Rescue Resource Center: The Sanctuary's...
Harvest Home Sanctuary’s Virtual Rescue Resource Center is an e-tool to assist both individuals seeking to re-home animals and potential adopters. We receive many public inquiries each week to provide sanctuary for animals in need. Unfortunately, we cannot provide a home for each and every animal. To request a placement posting for an animal in need on Harvest Home Sanctuary’s Finding...
Heading out of town for the holidays? Your bunny...
Harvest Home Hotel offers reasonably-priced boarding services for rabbits, cats, guinea pigs, rats and other small critters. “Vacationing” animals will enjoy the comfort of living in the sanctuary’s main house with 24/7 care. We supply our small animal guests with a comfortable living space with rugs, towels, litter boxes and boxes to hide in. Pellets, hay and fresh greens are...
Special Opportunity: Name one of the newly rescued...
The new group of baby turkeys rescued from a California factory farm is settling in at the sanctuary. However, there is a problem. They don’t have names yet!
Since the group of eight turkey babies (known as poults) is so young, we don’t know if they are males or females. What we do know is that they will be either all boys or all females.
Please help us name this fuzzy youngsters...
Tickets are now on sale for the 12/17 "Death of a...
Celebrate the impending ban of foie gras production and sales in California with a benefit party for Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary!
Death of a Cruel Delicacy: A Farewell to Foie Gras Soirée
Saturday, December 17, 2011
5 - 8 PM
Private Residence, Oakland, CA
Don’t miss this special event:
Help raise funds for Harvest Home Sanctuary’s animal healthcare fund
Enjoy seasonal vegan...
Double your donation to Harvest Home's...
D.O.V.E. Distributors, a Northern California vegan company, will match up to $500 in donations to Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary between now and Thanksgiving. Help us meet our goal of raising $500 by November 24. One of the leading expenses of operating Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary is providing quality nutrition for our 200 rescued animals. With a total of $1,000, we can feed the...
Toast to the Turkeys attracts nearly 100 visitors...
The 2011 Toast to the Turkeys Celebration was a smashing success this weekend. We welcomed nearly 100 guests to our second annual fundraiser for the sanctuary’s rescued turkeys. The fundraiser generated over $5,000 in donations for our organization’s lifesaving work. Visitors also showered the food bin with vegetarian items to be donated to the Emergency Food Bank of Stockton/San...
A New Look for Harvest Home
Today, our new logo was unveiled at the 2011 Toast to the Turkeys Celebration. With almost seven years of saving lives under our belt, we elected to revamp our logo recently. The new design, which was created by designer Lara Dalinsky, reflects our focus of rescuing often-overlooked animals like rabbits, chickens and goats. Our two-acre rescue and rehabilitation sanctuary is home to 200 animals ...
November Blog Special Part Five: The New Arrivals
This week’s blog posts will be dedicated to the sanctuary’s rescued turkeys and 2011 Toast to the Turkeys Celebration on Saturday. For our last installment of our blog series, we introduce to the newest residents of Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary: A group of week-old turkey poults freed from a factory farm.
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Across California, farms...
November Blog Special Part Three: Get a head start...
This week’s blog posts will be dedicated to the sanctuary’s rescued turkeys and 2011 Toast to the Turkeys Celebration on Saturday. Today, catch a sneak peak of some of the silent auction item available this weekend.
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Are you ready to start your holiday shopping? Let Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary help you. Our celebration silent auction is loaded with...
November Blog Special Bonus: Jordan's Photo Shoot
This week’s blog posts will be dedicated to the sanctuary’s rescued turkeys and 2011 Toast to the Turkeys Celebration on Saturday. Enjoy this bonus photo blog, courtesy of Jordan!
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Fine art photographer Isa Leshko visited the sanctuary for a portrait project this week. Jordan the Tom made it his mission to stand in front of the camera as much as...
November Blog Special Part One: 15 million reasons...
This week’s blog posts will be dedicated to the sanctuary’s rescued turkeys and 2011 Toast to the Turkeys Celebration on Saturday. Today, we explore the realities of turkey production in California.
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Over 15 million turkeys will be killed for human consumption this year in California.
Today, genetically modified “meat” turkeys are raised under a set of...
Autumn's Opportunities: Q & A with Sanctuary...
Ashlee Ferguson, a resident of Manteca and recent graduate of The University of Oregon, is currently interning at Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary. She is pictured here with Timothy, a rabbit who was abandoned by his previous guardians. Read about Ashlee’s experiences at the sanctuary during the fall season:
What caught your interest in interning at Harvest Home?
I was interested in an...
The Waiting Game: Tahini finds her forever home...
It’s been nearly two years since Tahini the Rabbit arrived at Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary. Clearly, good things come to those who wait. Tahini found her “home sweet home” today with a couple in Marin County who adopted furry friend Cary Grant recently.
Sanctuary to host first annual vegetarian food...
Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary will extend its circle of compassion on Saturday, November 12th at the organization’s Toast to the Turkeys Celebration by hosting its first annual vegetarian food drive to benefit the Emergency Food Bank of Stockton/San Joaquin.
Guests at the celebration are encouraged to bring non-perishable vegan foods, such as:
- Packaged rice or beans - Canned fruits /...
Buns for the Buns: Cinnaholic teams up with the...
Today kicks off our month-long fundraising promotion with Berkeley’s Cinnaholic. Throughout the month of November, Cinnaholic will be donating 50% of all baby bun sales to the sanctuary’s rescue work.
This vegan business is open Tuesday through Sunday 10 am to 7 pm. The store location is 2132 Oxford Street in Berkeley.
Cinnaholic’s baby cinnamon rolls are a cruelty-free...
