piebird.orgPiebird Farm Sanctuary

-- Peacefully powered Animal Liberation Welcome About Piebird is an independent farm sanctuary and vegan education hub in Nipissing, Ontario. Since 2005, our mission is to inspire change in human attitudes towards other animals and inspire action to make the world a better place for all. We aim to help bring about the revolutionary shift in social consciousness to transform a culture of violence and oppression to one of nonviolence and liberation. Outside of the spheres of animal rights, both Sherry and Yan steer the sanctuary in engaging with other intersecting circles of justice and liberation. We recognize that many entanglements of oppression and liberation are related. With the sanctuary as our heart, we use that perspective of being-of-service to guide our outreach: creative activism workshops, community organizing and mobilizing, vegan education via cooking workshops, food sovereignty (veganic gardening education and a heirloom seed provider). We believe in a world where all individuals of all species can flourish, free from exploitation. What is a Farm Sanctuary? Sanctuary is an act of revolutionary hope. We provide a loving home to animal-persons who have previously been exploited as "farmed animals”. Here in sanctuary, individuals are uplifted into liberation, celebrated for who they are and not used for product or exploited for their bodies. To us, sanctuary is a safe place for expression of peace, ideas of justice and actions of equality for all beings. 2020 Updates JUNE: For sale: "The Birdhouse" House/Cottage right next door to the sanctuary! See: piebird.org/birdhouse -- MAY: Free seeds!! Our small-scale seed sales help to support the sanctuary work we do (see pic above/below of harvesting kale seed). We're honoured to share with you that our friends at A Well Fed World have generously helped to give our Piebird Kale Seeds to anyone who needs them, for free. Please use the coupon code: SEEDSOFHOPE -- Please also consider supporting the great work that A Well Fed World does. April: Friends, in these uncertain times please consider supporting the work of our friends at the Toronto VegFoodBank. Get Involved / Support Sanctuary Online store Support the sanctuary with some fun art we made for you! Upcycled and hand-printed merch, heirloom seeds, etc. Shop Support Sanctuary Donate Or join our Monthly Letter Club : Join Upcoming Events? All 2020 workshops & events postponed. Please check back for updates. We'll for sure do some of our "How to Grow Your Own Food" workshops once things open up again. events Links -- Reasons to choose veganism Old Sanctuary site Sunshine's Liberation Join Our Infrequent Newsletter Updates 2019 Photos? Over these last 14 years of sanctuary, we’ve become increasingly uncomfortable with the dangers of the human gaze in the use of photography to represent animal-persons. In our visual culture, rarely are animal-persons presented with dignity. They are routinely represented as comedy, perpetual victims, or simply fetishized as objects (think of the internet’s obsession for "cute goat pics"). This representation contributes to their invisibleness rather than uplifting the identity of individuals. As a sanctuary we have tried for several years to visually represent the friends who live here with integrity and dignity (like the sample pics below), but it no longer feels appropriate for us to contribute to the unequal relationship between the viewed and the viewer. Going forward, we are exploring the solution of no longer taking photos of the animal-persons who live here in sanctuary, and no longer posting existing images to social media. We have discussed more perspective about this conclusion in some recent speaking engagements and if your group is interested, please get in touch. 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Donec accumsan interdum nisi, quis tincidunt felis sagittis eget. tempus euismod. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus vestibulum. Blandit adipiscing eu felis iaculis volutpat ac adipiscing accumsan eu faucibus. Integer ac pellentesque praesent tincidunt felis sagittis eget. tempus euismod. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus vestibulum. Blandit adipiscing eu felis iaculis volutpat ac adipiscing accumsan eu faucibus. Integer ac pellentesque praesent. Donec accumsan interdum nisi, quis tincidunt felis sagittis eget. tempus euismod. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus vestibulum. Blandit adipiscing eu felis iaculis volutpat ac adipiscing accumsan eu faucibus. Integer ac pellentesque praesent tincidunt felis sagittis eget. tempus euismod. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus vestibulum. Blandit adipiscing eu felis iaculis volutpat ac adipiscing accumsan eu faucibus. Integer ac pellentesque praesent. Blandit adipiscing eu felis iaculis volutpat ac adipiscing accumsan eu faucibus. Integer ac pellentesque praesent tincidunt felis sagittis eget. tempus euismod. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus vestibulum. Blandit adipiscing eu felis iaculis volutpat ac adipiscing accumsan eu faucibus. Integer ac pellentesque praesent. -- Email love@piebird.org 113 Chapman's Landing Rd. Nipissing, Ontario P0H 1W0 -- 705.724.1144 (We're 3.5 hours North of Toronto. ie: North of Muskoka, South of North Bay) © 2019...