Dear John,

For the rescued animals at Farm Sanctuary, this holiday season is all about celebrating life’s simple pleasures: Days spent roaming spacious pastures with their friends. Nights spent snuggling in nests of warm straw.

Without our community of supporters, they wouldn’t have a home for the holidays. These animals—survivors of an unjust and unsustainable food system—have been given the greatest gift of all: the gift of Sanctuary.

This year, you can help us give this gift to more animals. Will you “adopt” a farm animal this holiday season?

For a one-time $35 donation, you can sponsor one of the five special individuals below for yourself or a loved one this holiday season and inspire a connection with farm animals that will last a lifetime.

When you adopt, you’ll receive a digital certificate featuring your new farm animal best friend—which your can print out and display, or share online for all to see. Adoptions also make a great gift!

Safran

Safran’s fate seemed sealed: born at an industrial dairy, he was torn from his mother at birth. Put in a metal pen, he was bound for a veal farm where he’d be confined in a crate alone, for months. But just before he was put on the truck, Farm Sanctuary President and Co-founder Gene Baur spotted him—he was visiting that day. Baur brought the two-day old calf to our Sanctuary. Today, living his life amid his fellow cow friends and fresh air, he’s living proof: love heals all wounds.

Phoenix

On her cage-free farm, Phoenix had never been outside. In a warehouse with hundreds of thousands of other hens, it was difficult to even stretch her wings. So when a fire razed her building to the ground, it was nearly impossible to escape—but somehow she did. She was given care at Farm Sanctuary. Today, she’s rediscovering her true nature and is allowed to express it fully: at Farm Sanctuary, that’s what all animals get to do.

Josie-Mae

Born at a small goat dairy, Josie-Mae was destined to be slaughtered for meat—or be repeatedly impregnated for milk. At birth, she wasn’t allowed to sufficiently nurse from her mother; that milk was sold instead. Already weak, she then lost her right leg in a traumatic accident. Her owner didn’t provide medical care: it was too expensive. She and her mother came to Farm Sanctuary in desperate need of attention. After months of physical therapy and a new prosthetic leg, today she’s the roughhouser of the herd.

Von D

Von D was born on an illegal backyard farm, set to be slaughtered at six months. Luckily, one day the farmer’s nephew and wife visited, laid eyes on the piglet, and couldn’t bear to see her killed. They took her with them, trying their best to raise her inside their suburban home, but neighbors soon complained. The couple called Farm Sanctuary, and the rest is history! Today, Von D gets to have all the mud puddles, dirt paths, and sunshine she wants.

Adriano

Adriano was one of 60 desperately neglected animals whom we rescued from a backyard butcher in New York. Many of the ewes in the flock had nearly starved to death; their lambs were sick. Most were terrified of humans. When Adriano came to us as a lamb, he was fiercely protective of his mother and sister. Today he’s still fiercely loyal to his family, but has learned to trust humans. He even craves scratches, and will make sure he gets them whenever you enter his barn.

This year, give the gift of Sanctuary, and ring in 2021 with love that lasts all year long!

For the animals,