Sometimes, cows just want to have fun. Two recent play sessions among survivors of severe trauma demonstrate the joys of sanctuary life. . . . → Read More: Playtime for Bovines
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Take the Icy Buckets Challenge to see if you have what it takes to work at an animal sanctuary in snowy Vermont. . . . → Read More: Take the “Icy Buckets” Challenge Today 
Sometimes coming home is the best part of the trip. I’ve just returned from a two-week writing retreat, and this gave me the opportunity to see the sanctuary with fresh eyes. I went out to the barn just as Cheryl and TJ were unloading the pick-up truck after the weekly run to the feed store. . . . → Read More: Homecoming 
We bring the year to a close with 510 animals in residence here at the sanctuary. Off-site, we organized or participated in 39 events. Here’s a month-by-month look back at 2014… On January 3rd, it was warmer at the North Pole than at VINE Sanctuary. The temperature vacillated treacherously throughout the month, turning . . . → Read More: A Year at VINE Sanctuary You shot Mike Brown. No, you didn’t pull the trigger, but you helped to load the gun. You also aided and abetted the strangulation of Eric Garner and the murder of poor 12-year-old Tamir Rice. These are serious charges that I suspect you do not understand. Many people have tried to school you, notably including . . . → Read More: Open Letter to the Perpetrators* of Thug Kitchen** 
Racism and sexism combined to support speciesism when a Whole Foods Market manager made a “citizen’s arrest” of a Latina animal rights activist. . . . → Read More: Arrested for Leafleting While Brown? 
VINE Sanctuary calls on its friends in the blogosphere to spread the word about its campaign to buy a new pickup truck. Here’s your chance to help a farmed animal sanctuary buy a vital piece of equipment that will be used for years to come. . . . → Read More: Can You Spare a Jump-Start for the Sanctuary? Here’s what happened when staff members at a prominent civil liberties organization invited VINE Sanctuary’s cofounder to give a lunchtime talk on intersectionality and animals. . . . → Read More: Lunchtime with Litigants 
An excerpt from a forthcoming memoir about the sanctuary’s first decade. They arrived by night. Two ducks, six ducklings, four hens, two roosters and one very terrified turkey huddled in plastic pet-carriers in the back of a pick-up truck. They’d all been living together in a tiny shed until the Delaware family who thought of . . . → Read More: Turkeys and Other Endangered Species |
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From Thug Kitchen to Backyard Chickens
What do the perpetrators of Thug Kitchen have in common with backyard hen keepers? Lack of empathy for others due to preoccupation with one’s own intentions and personal innocence. . . . → Read More: From Thug Kitchen to Backyard Chickens