WILD PEACE SANCTUARY
OUR WORK
At Wild Peace Sanctuary we nurture and facilitate healing and reciprocity between people, animals, and the land. Our wild horses and burros, rescued from abuse, neglect and abandonment, are regenerating and rewilding habitat while bringing a sense of joy and peace to everyone they meet. We provide a range of therapeutic services, and offer nature-based workshops and events. We strive to raise awareness of the desperate plight of wild equines in the US, while shining a light on their unique abilities as keystone species, ecosystem engineers, and natural-born healers.
OUR SERVICES
We provide a range of therapeutic and restorative services for individuals, families, and groups to support trauma, conflict, and
grief through earth-centered practices, somatic healing, equine wisdom, and earth-honoring ritual. Our land-based healing
sessions and private retreats offer an opportunity to tend deeply to the personal landscape of mind, body, heart, and
soul, while seeing ourselves reflected in the outer landscape and remembering that we are a part of nature.
WILD HORSES
& BURROS
Each year, tens of thousands of wild horses and burros are rounded up from public lands to make way for private and corporate industry. Most end up confined for life, at tax-payer expense, in barren, crowded, and shelterless government-run facilities, or are funneled into the slaughter pipeline. The tragic irony is that these gentle keystone herbivores are our allies in this time of climate instability and food insecurity, as their beneficial presence improves soil health, increases biodiversity, enables food production, and aids in wildfire prevention.
REWILDING
We are engaged in a range of regenerative practices drawn from the fields of rewilding, permaculture, equiculture, and ancestral ways of living and being with the land. Our grazing animals are the key to our work, as their movements across the land
help to create a rich and dynamic mosaic of habitats for native wildlife, and their nutrient-rich fertilizer enables us
to grow organic food. Our aim is to develop a closed loop system of regenerative and sustainable living.
OUR WILDLIFE
Natural disturbance from large-bodied grazing herbivores is a fundamental element in rewilding and regenerating land as it encourages a diversity of plants, animals, insects, fungi, and other organisms. Working alongside our equines, we are introducing key regional trees, shrubs, and plants to enhance habitat for bees, butterflies and other pollinators; and cultivating a living medicine cabinet and food forest for our resident herd, human stewards, resident wildlife, and other native wildlife displaced by industrial forestry practices in coastal Oregon.
OUR EVENTS
Our seasonal program offers hands-on workshops in practical and ancestral skills and knowledge, such as working with edible and medicinal plants, restoring and maintaining native habitat with animals and traditional hand tools, and exploring nature-based
arts and crafts. Other events are aimed at supporting healing in community and building resilience for the challenges of
our time, as we remember and reclaim some of our original ways of connecting with each other and the land.
GIVING BACK TO
LAND & PEOPLE
We make mineral-rich compost from the raw manure that our resident herd provides, mixed with organic matter and coastal amendments. The end result is a nutrient-rich, slow release, bio-fertilizer produced by the earthworms, millipedes, other invertebrates, and microorganisms that digest these materials. We use some of our compost and liquid plant fertilizers to grow organic fruit and vegetables, and donate the rest to local ecological restoration groups and food security programs such as the Concerned Citizens for Clean Air, and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz.
SUPPORT US
Your support helps us to care for our resident herd and raise awareness of the desperate plight of wild horses and burros in
the US, while shining a light on their innate ability to rewild and regenerate land. In addition, your donations will
help us to further develop our program of nature-based classes and workshops, and provide scholarships
for anyone needing support to attend our workshops or to access our therapeutic services.
