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Courage to Change

10/20/2019

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Eight years ago this fall, Mike and I packed up our Lincoln Park apartment and moved to the country. The thing I have been most grateful for is the courage to change.

See the gorgeous 250lbs (plus)Hampshire cross pig lying next to me? We couldn’t touch him when he arrived at the Sanctuary in April. He had been through so much trauma many of the professionals we work with use the term PTSD. While we respect everyone’s sense or maybe the need to identify, we feel much more drawn to freedom. Freedom to change.

Today, if we are anywhere insight of him he comes running and flops down exposing his belly for us to rub. The courage to change. Damn! It is Brilliant.

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Fairchild

In the fall of 2011, Mike and I moved to a small farm in Central Illinois where we immediately found ourselves rescuing horses. The rescue was not part of our original plan, but we felt the calling while doing a search for a pair of ponies we did plan on caring for on the farm. Since childhood, my entire extended family and I have been horse owners. Mike and I wanted to continue this tradition. Upon searching the internet for a pair of ponies, we were overwhelmed with the number of horses that needed a rescue and/or a home.

So, enter Princess and Geronimo, the first two rescues. They were both severely malnourished and uncared for. Mike and Nicole adopted them both. To this day, we are still helping them open to all of their best possibilities.

After Princess and Geronimo arrived, a third horse, Hero, came to the farm. At this point we reached capacity on our small farmette, but we knew we weren’t done.

The Farm Way Sanctuary became a non profit Corporation in April of 2014.

It has taken us four years, the birth of our beautiful, horse-ready son, a barn fire, getting outbid on another farm, regrouping our entire family at Maytown Farm, a rockin’ farmraiser, an incredible angel family, Grandma Nancy, and being homeless like little tiny baby Jesus on Christmas Eve to bring us here, to our forever farm in Whiteside County, IL. in the winter of 2016.

This farm is our ideal space to provide sanctuary for horses and other animals in need. As well as, allow The Farm Way Sanctuary to build the facilities needed for programs and programming that educate and minister the spirit and warmth of the horses, mother earth and one another to children, their families, individuals and groups.
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Courage to Change

Fairchild

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