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Blogs & Newsletters

Our tenth farm newsletter (July 2022)
Our ninth farm newsletter (July 2021)
Our eighth farm newsletter (July 2020)
Our seventh farm newsletter (January 2020)
Our sixth farm newsletter (August 2019)
Our fifth farm newsletter (April 2019)
Our fourth farm newsletter (May 2018)
Our third farm newsletter (January 2018)
Our second farm newsletter (September 2017)
Our first farm newsletter (February 2017)

Tiny Tune’s first egg

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“Tiny Tune” hatched from a blue egg laid by a Cream Legbar hen mother via a Wyandotte rooster. Tune, a bantam hen, raised her, and the name “Tiny Tune” just stuck, even though she’s now three times the size of her hatching mama.

Cream Legbars lay light blue eggs and our Wyandottes lay light-medium brown eggs…voilà! Tune lays a light olive green/sage green egg! She’s the grey-ish hen in the center of the photo below.
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1/17/2019 0 Comments

Annual Summary

We send an annual letter to our financial donors. This is a summary of what we accomplished in 2018: 
Guest house
  • Mold remediation was a success!
  • New wheel-chair accessible bathroom & a widened doorway for one bedroom
  • New shower pan and bathtub installed
  • Electrical wiring repaired, new grounded outlets installed, light fixtures installed
  • New wall and attic insulation, new drywall, and fresh paint
  • Window frames rebuilt
  • New heat/ac installed and functioning (so pleasant to work in a warm building)
Farm
  • Four alpacas getting used to people so that they can be therapy animals
  • Three pigs helping us clear the pasture for the future vegetable garden
  • Guinea fowl and 30 chickens eating bugs, grass, and fertilizing
  • Lots of fence building and repair
  Networking
  • Billy had a successful organic farming internship at the Rodale Institute in Pennsylvania, and April went to veteran-focused yoga instructor training with VETOGA in Washington, DC.
  • Billy volunteers weekly at a women’s maximum security prison where he is teaching based on the 12 Steps, and trauma & forgiveness.
  • Billy is connecting with men at a short-term “boot camp” rehab who may come to us afterward for a transition back to regular life.
  • We took a class on trauma & spirituality at Fuller Theological Seminary; one more class scheduled toward Billy’s doctorate in recovery.
  • We hosted a dozen casual guests: some to volunteer, and some who came for respite.
 
We’re glad to have you alongside us on this journey, and we look forward to what 2019 will bring. 
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    Billy & April Vaughan are the founders and directors of The Sanctuary Farm & Rest House. 

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