WILD PEACE SANCTUARY
OUR VISION
At Wild Peace Farm and Sanctuary we practice regenerative agriculture and therapeutic farming with rescued and re-homed wild horses, donkeys, and goats. Our animals are central to our work of restoring and regenerating the land to support our native plants and wildlife; producing organic compost to grow vegetables, fruit, and medicinal plants; and providing opportunities for healing through natural reciprocity. We envision a way of living where animals, people, and the land work together to honor wildness and cultivate peace.
OUR PRACTICES
We are engaged in a range of regenerative agricultural practices drawn from the fields of rewilding, permaculture, equiculture, and holistic land management to restore habitat for native wildlife. Our grazing and browsing animals are the key to our work as we
manage them in ways to support ecological balance and increase biodiversity, utilize their nutrient-rich fertilizer to grow food,
and benefit from their healing presence as we work in natural reciprocity with them, with the land, and one another.
WILD EQUINES
Record numbers of wild equines are being rounded up in the U.S. and removed from the wild to make way for private and corporate industry. Each year, tens of thousands of these animals are funneled into the slaughter pipeline, while others are confined for life in barren and crowded facilities. The tragic irony is that these gentle herbivores are allies in this time of climate instability and food insecurity, as, when managed well on the land, their presence benefits te land in multiple ways improve soil health, increase biodiversity, sequester carbon, enable food production, and prevent wildfire.
OUR EVENTS
Our educational events include hands-on classes and workshops in a range of place-based skills and practices, such as learning
about how to restore native habitat with animals and traditional hand tools, and other ancestral skills; with a focus
on engaging with these practices in relational, reciprocal, and regenerative ways. We also offer opportunities
to learn and practice generative and transformative conflict as we learn to create and find common ground.
GIVING BACK TO
LAND & PEOPLE
We make mineral-rich compost from the raw manure that our herd provides to make a nutrient-rich, slow release bio-fertilizer, as well as fermented liquid plant fertilizers from comfrey, horsetail and nettle that we harvested from the land. We use our own compost and plant fertilizers to grow organic fruit and berries, vegetables and herbs; and donate the rest to local ecological restoration groups and food security programs including the Concerned Citizens for Clean Air, and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.
NATIVE WILDLIFE
We are introducing key regional trees, shrubs, and plants to enhance habitat for bees, butterflies and other pollinators; and to cultivate a living medicine cabinet and food forest for our resident herd, human stewards, and both resident and local wildlife. Our equines are continually rotated to mimic the natural disturbance from large-bodied herbivores that is a fundamental element of rewilding. This encourages a diversity of plants, animals, insects, fungi, and other organisms; and helps to restore ecological balance.
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.
