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Guest Blog: How I Decided to Become Vegan

Hello everyone! My name is Molly, and I am currently a junior at the University of Vermont double majoring in Food Systems and Nutrition and Food Science. I stopped eating …

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Goodbye, Moses: A Sudden Farewell After a Lifetime of Joy

Our precious Moses, our beautiful spotted boy with giant floppy ears that masked huge golden eyes, is gone. He was 7 ½ years old. Moses arrived in 2013 from a …

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Petunia’s Pledge: Continuing Your Journey

Like so many of you, I was raised in a meat and potatoes family. Breakfast was often eggs with bacon or sausage. Lunch was a sandwich: ham and cheese, turkey, …

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Backyard Labor Day Party: Online Class

Don’t celebrate the end of summer with a ho-hum meal! Let Chef Linda show you how to make a delicious Italian-inspired backyard feast.

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Please Read This Before Starting Your Backyard Coop

“We just had a box of chicks show up, and [the whole box] is dead… This is just—happens repeatedly… Please, please do something for these poor animals.”   This spring …

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Baby Goats Welcomed After Closure of “Humane” Farm

A few weeks ago, we received hundreds of messages about Sprout Creek, Marist College’s “humane” farm, who had announced that they were closing, citing lack of funding due in large …

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Virtual Sanctuary: LIVE 50 Years Of Earth Day

Tune in at 1:00PM to chat with Tours Manager Kaden about what it means to celebrate 50 years of Earth Day during these strange times. …

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Virtual Sanctuary: Welcome To The Sanctuary at Rte. 32!

Tune in at 1:00pm when we go LIVE on YouTube! We’ll show you an often unseen part of the Sanctuary grounds: our second property at …

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Five Years Of Love, Hope + Changing Hearts

“After 10 years of looking into thousands of pig eyes, I’ve come to understand that they’re never vacant. There’s always someone looking back at me” – Bob Comis In the …

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Onward, Friends, for All of Us: Reflections on World Vegan Day

Is your glass half empty or half full? As worldwide consumption of animals increases and climate chaos accelerates, have you given up, or are you standing tall, determined to do …