This 25 kilowatt solar array system will run the entire farm “off the grid” on sunny days. Despite a $132,000 New York State grant and the town of Woodstock’s officially proclaimed commitment to being carbon-neutral by 2017, it took almost 2 years of bureaucratic red tape to get the installation going!  Seems that a neighbor   Read More →

Comfy in a clean, dry pen On the evening of April 10th a calf made a break from a slaughterhouse in Paterson, NJ.  He eluded capture for hours and even waded into the Passaic River (yuck!). Police used vehicles to ram into the calf in an effort to bring him under control until a tranquilizer   Read More →

THE LUCKY ONES My Passionate Fight For Farm Animals By JENNY BROWN Founder of Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary With Gretchen Primack On Sale: August 2, 2012   Jenny Brown was once a successful television professional. But after a week-long trip spent undercover to film horrific farm animal abuse in Texas stockyards in 2002, she decided to   Read More →

Our good friends at Compassion Over Killing embedded an undercover activist at an Iowa breeding factory farm and caught egregious forms of abuse that are common, everyday activities for pigs there.  Even the most jaded person will be shocked by the content of the video, including the practice of “feedback” — where afterbirth and the   Read More →

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary is known for its cool and sometimes thought-provoking merchandise with t-shirt designs featuring art and messages such as “Eat Kale, Not Cow“, “Animals Are Here With Us, Not For Us,” “Friend Not Food” and more. We are phasing out some old merchandise and would love to create a new message T   Read More →

McDonald’s considers phasing out suppliersusing pig gestation crates The New York Times and other outlets wide and far reported in February, 2012, that McDonald’s was making a move towards ending gestation crate use in its supply chain for pork.  These 24″ wide steel contraptions (also known as gestation stalls or sow stalls) are where pregnant   Read More →

Beautiful Maybelle was born in 2005 and endured a harsh young life at a large scale cow breeding farm in Pennsylvania.  When she was three years old, she went to live at New York’s Phillipsburg Manor, a historic estate that has people in period costumes showing what 18th century colonial life was like. While living   Read More →

This Wednesday, Feb. 8, one of Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary’s volunteers, Jim Porcaro, is competing in NYC’s Annual Race to the Top of the Empire State Building with mission to advocate for veganism and raise $$ for WFAS. Jim has run several marathons, too, always generously raising funds to help his furred and feathered friends.    Read More →

In early January, 2012, a team of WFAS staff and volunteers assembled to help rescue and relocate a pair of pigs in need. Junior and his daughter, Sunshine, were struggling in unspeakable conditions at a very old, run down farm. As the space at our Woodstock sanctuary is limited, we often help out by finding   Read More →

With the highest hay and straw prices in history looming (Thanks, hurricane Irene!), we are so pleased to announce that our goal to raise $100,000 in the final five weeks of 2011 was reached — and exceeded.  Thank you so much to donors large and small, you’ve really made a difference!  We felt like James   Read More →

The important thing is that no one was hurt!  On Sunday, December 4, 2011, Farm Manager Sheila Hyslop used up one of her nine lives during a trip to pick up several animals at Cornell’s Large Animal Hospital in Ithaca, NY.  She hit some black ice and slid off a mountain road, flipping over the   Read More →

You can help us care for our feathered friends by Sponsoring A Turkey here at Woodstock Sanctuary. It’s an affordable way to help us cover the costs of providing shelter and care to farmed animals in need –and they make wonderful, inspiring gifts! With each sponsorship, you’ll receive a beautiful card that includes a color   Read More →

Until the end of 2011 a super-generous anonymous donor is matching all donations dollar-for-dollar until we reach $100,000!  This means $200,000 for our life-saving work on behalf of farm animals.  Please give whatever you can, small or large!  Thanks!

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Around October 4th, 2011, approximately 80 very young commercial “broiler” chickens (info on the breed here) crammed in a shipping crate apparently fell off a truck. The crate was found by Animal Control in Rockland County and the chicks were taken to the Hi Tor Animal Shelter to be cared for while a home was   Read More →