Look at some of these handsome residents at SASHA Farm and take some deep breaths. They are living their best lives and sending calming love your way.
Staying Calm at Holiday Time
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Shop to Help the SASHA Animal Residents
We have many gifts you can choose from for your friends and family – and for all those special people you love and miss. And every purchase you make helps the SASHA Farm animal residents.
OUR SASHA FARM GIFT SHOP has a wide variety of t-shirts, hoodies, hats, mugs, water bottles, and so much more that will make perfect gifts for your friends and family. Check out the shop on our website HERE: https://www.sashafarm.org/shop.
Place your merchandise order by Friday, December 11 to arrive in time for the Christmas holidays.
Vegan for the animals hoodie 
Travel Mug 
SASHA Farm tote 
Red logo hoodie 
SASHA Farm pig long sleeve 
Jersey Boy tee 
Logo hoodie 
Baseball cap 
We are seeing shipping delays in all areas of the country, including Michigan, so if you are going to place a merchandise or sponsorship order to arrive by Christmas, please make certain it is in our hands by this FRIDAY DECEMBER 11th. Even then we cannot guarantee arrival before Christmas, as it is hard to predict where the delays will be. If your order arrives after the 11th we will still honor it, of course, and we can all keep our fingers crossed. Thanks to all who have already or will be ordering merchandise or sponsorships – the animal residents are so grateful for your support!
Why not a Team Norman t-shirt or crewneck? Or choose from many other styles, colors and sizes, including youth sizes.
ALTHOUGH OUR FIRST NORMAN SHIRT CAMPAIGN HAS ENDED, YOU CAN STILL ORDER HERE by December 20th to make this a New Year gift! Shipping from this second campaign will begin December 29:
https://www.bonfire.com/team-norman-sasha-farm/
It’s the first time SASHA’s beloved Norman the donkey has had his own shirt, and he is so happy! This second campaign ends December 20th and although it won’t ship by the Christmas Holiday, items will begin to ship by December 29.
Thanks to Volunteer Shaunna Cahill and Joe Maroon Photography (@joemaroonphotography) for designing this fabulous shirt!
OTHER WAYS YOU CAN SHOP TO HELP THE ANIMALS!
For gift ideas for SASHA Farm and the animal residents, check out the tab on our website called HOW YOU CAN HELP, and scroll down to our WISH LIST. The direct link is: https://www.sashafarm.org/how-you-can-help/wish-list/.
SPONSORSHIPS of SASHA Farm animal residents make great gifts. Please contact sponsorships@sashafarm.org for questions, or go to the Sponsorship tab on the website at https://www.sashafarm.org/sponsorship-information/.
The deadline to order sponsorships to ship before the Christmas Holiday is Friday, December 11th.
During the entire month of December, it’s a busy time for online shoppers. Amazon makes it easy to add SASHA Farm as your favorite charity through their Amazon Smile program. Start by going to https://smile.amazon.com/ and log on to Amazon as you always do. You can then select SASHA Farm as your charity. By signing up, a percentage of your purchase total will be donated to our farm! Thank you for supporting SASHA in so many ways!
We are so grateful for your support in 2020. Thank you!
Celebrate ‘ThanksLiving’ to Honor Turkeys Everywhere
Turkeys are intelligent, social beings, with their own unique personalities as varied as humans. At SASHA Farm they are attached to their caregivers, and often greet their human friends with love and affection, sometimes making low purring noises and snuggling in laps.
Here are some interesting facts about turkeys:
- Turkeys enjoy having their feathers stroked and like listening to music, with which they’ll often loudly sing along.
- In nature, they can fly 55 miles an hour, run 35 miles an hour, and live up to 10 years.
- Turkeys are social creatures that form tight bonds. If a turkey is removed from their flock, they will squawk in protest until reunited with their friends. When reunited, they will dance.
- Turkeys see three times more clearly than you do. They also have a 270-degree field of vision.
- Turkeys like to look their best. When they’re not being forced to live in filth on factory farms, they like to groom their feathers with dust baths and preening.
But instead of living long and happy lives, which can be up to 10 years in the wild or at sanctuaries such as SASHA Farm, most turkeys are raised for holiday dinners on factory farms, slaughtered before they are 6 months old. Thousands of them are packed into dark sheds with no more than 3.5 square feet of space per bird. They’re genetically bred to grow as quickly as possible, and often become crippled under their own weight. They are never allowed to be themselves or know the good lives they would have if respected and honored as sentient beings on this planet.
An astounding 35 million are slaughtered at Thanksgiving in the US and 250 million over the entire holiday season. It is our hope that one day Thanksgiving won’t be celebrated with the killing of millions of our feathered friends. Until that day, we will continue to advocate for their precious lives.
What can you do to help keep turkey off the table and give them the opportunity to live out their lives in safety? There are many plant-based dishes that all family members can enjoy, easily found on websites such One Green Planet, PETA, and many others. We will also be posting some of those recipes on our Facebook page over the next few days. Also, you can sponsor a turkey now or anytime during the year at SASHA Farm. Inquire at sponsorships@sashafarm.org. And, speak up for your feathered friends – share your love for turkeys with others who know little about these beautiful birds.
