Building Unity Farm Sanctuary - Fourth Week of December 2016

As the end of the year approaches, I ’m reflecting on the changes that 2016 has brought.  Unity Farm Sanctuary was a distant strategy for leaving a legacy at the end of our lives. Now it is a reality with a population of wonderful creatures who will be able enjoy their days in the pastures, forests, and gardens of a safe, vegan, organic space surrounded by permanently protected rural trust land.The current capacity of the sanctuary is a 5 stall barn, a two adult horse run in, and a pony/donkey/goat run in.  Our theoretical maximum capacity is 4 adult horses, 3 ponies, 3 donkeys, and 3 goats.Next week, we will remove a few trees between Unity Farm and Unity Farm Sanctuary, creating a few acres of additional paddocks connected by lanes that will enable us to rotate animal locations easily and sustain natural grasses throughout the year.  Once completed, these new paddocks will support a dozen more horses, cows, pigs, goats and other farmland creatures in need of rescuing.  Sherborn has no restrictions on hosting farm animals - we could rescue elephants and emus - so we do not know what possibilities each day will bring.At the time we ’re developing the new paddocks, we’re repairing fences, putting up electrical fence tape and carefully thinning trees near the barn and existing paddocks to keep the animals safe from falling branches.We ’re also preparing the Unity Meeting House for public use.  Although we are not zoned commercial,...
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