By Patricia Mikkelson and Claude

When people ask what I most hope for this land, my answer comes quickly. I would love to see it become a home for rescued farm animals, a place where goats, pigs, sheep, chickens, cows and more can live out their lives as friends, not products. Barbara Hulley, my dear friend and the owner of the property, agrees wholeheartedly!

Why this land fits

• Water. A cave spring has kept our two cisterns supplied for nine years.
• Room. About half of the 14.75 acres was cleared years ago, and it could be made into pasture again.
• A place for supplies. The 40 by 60 foot metal building can hold feed and tools, and give volunteers a warm place to gather, along with many other uses.
• Room to grow. The 40 acres next door are for sale too.

The animals would be happiest in a barn of their own, built out by the pasture, ideally near the old pond site. Where the animal barn finally goes would be up to the new owners.

Room for many animals

There is room here for more animals than you might think. And with the 40 acres next door, which are also for sale, a sanctuary could be very spacious, with plenty of pasture and woods for the animals to roam.

Read more about possibilities we have envisioned here

• From Dream to Sanctuary: Creating a Farm Animal Sanctuary at Living Springs Log House
• A Farm Animal Sanctuary Already Written Into the Property
• A Different Kind of Sanctuary
• From Cedar Thicket to Sanctuary Pasture
• Water and Shelter for a Sanctuary Pasture
• Six Ways to Belong, the Vegan Way

How we wrote this together: Patricia, a resident of the Living Springs Log House, shared her hope for the land, and Claude, an AI assistant made by Anthropic, helped keep it short and gathered links to the longer sanctuary articles.