Dispatches from the sanctuary. Every rescue, every recovery, every rooster who thinks sunrise is his personal achievement.
Cold nights are coming. Ten dollars buys a bale, and every shelter on the property needs filling.
Where the hens rule, the roosters reign, and the ducks were never formally invited.
They see the hay. They want the hay. They will have the hay.
Sponsorship for the cats who live with us at the sanctuary as permanent residents.
Funding the pipeline that brings ferals from shelter euthanasia lists to forever placements across Julian backcountry.
🥧 National Pie Day has us thinking about one thing: Huckleberry. Every time we see him, it’s hard not to think of pie. Not because he’s round (rude), or sweet (debatable), but because he’s the full e...
Moostik Mondays Compassionate Horoscopes (just on Wednesday this week) w/ Pearl the Liberated Dairy Cow Cosmic Field Notes The Week of One Brave, Small Thing Empathy is the feeling. Action is the pr...
The Power Is You The flagship Steampunk Farms Rescue Barn playlist for momentum, courage, and the kind of hope that moves. Some days, saving a life looks like a vet visit and a feed bucket. Some days,...
Some animals arrive at Steampunk Farms Rescue Barn like a soft exhale—quiet eyes, careful steps, a gentle curiosity that asks permission before it takes up space. Then there’s Nikki. Nikki doesn’t arr...
Meet McGregor, our once-feral ginger warrior, now the beloved cat of two worlds. He still refuses to step inside the house…no matter how cozy we make it…but every single day he waits patiently (or no...
Rebel, caught in a rare moment of “don’t mind me, I live here.” 🖤 She came to us from a California municipal shelter about five years ago—highly feral, fiercely independent, and still very much livin...
UPDATE Jan 10th: Thank you Eden, Kyla, Amy, Dwight, Anil, Jeb, Jenn, and Vanessa…19 more bags and only 31 to go before we get the whole pallet with free delivery and the bulk discount 🙂 Land-lubbing...
Pearl & the Pirate Ship Goats 🏴☠️🐐 UPDATE from the Pallets-of-Pellets Fund: Pearl and her motley crew of pirate-ship goats have officially taken land. 🏴☠️🐐🌧️ Today’s pine pellet project gave th...
You know it’s January when the once-magical Christmas tree has become little more than trunk ‘n’ twigs. 🥺🎄🐐 At least Nimbus’ and Scotty’s cud burps are pine-y fresh this week! #newyearvibes #christ...
UPDATE on Bubbles’ Formal Mud Complaint: it has been officially logged… and addressed. 👑🐄💛 After our original post about sinking—literally—resources into these yards, you all jumped in fast. And to...
The best thing after a mud facial is a pumpkin cleanse! Fun Fact: In humans and pigs, pumpkin seeds contain a compound that acts as a natural dewormer, and the high fiber of pumpkins acts as a cleanse...
Bubbles would like to file a formal complaint about this mud. 😳🐄 (Meanwhile, Bernie is on the left—minding his business and munching hay like nothing’s happening.) We didn’t anticipate sinking—liter...
