What: Animal Sanctuaries: Speakers and Discussion
When: Friday, June 8
Where: Smith Memorial Student Union at Portland State University – PSU
1825 SW Broadway, Portland , OR

Guest speakers will include folks from Out to Pasture Farm Sanctuary, Help Animals India, and Oregon Primate Rescue.

Speakers will have a variety of backgrounds from both the local and international animal protection movement, topics may range from urban farming to temple elephants, and everything in between. They’ll be sharing their knowledge, stories, and much more.

For more information please click here.

Our own John Collins, ND will be speaking at the monthly NW Veg monthly vegan potluck on Sunday, May 20 about healthy vegan nutrition for children. The presentation at 6:30 will follow the vegan potluck which starts at 5:00 pm at the Friends Meeting Hall located at 4312 SE Stark St in Portland. Please visit the NW Veg website, www.nwveg.org.

Our next work party will be Saturday May 19 from 1:30 to 4:30 with a tour for new folks at 1:00. Wear old clothes (rubber boots and gloves recommended), and join us to help make Out to Pasture a nicer place for the animals. Good company and vegan snacks provided. Please sign up thru Facebook or contact Kit at kit.collins@gmail.com if you plan to join us or for more information.
Thanks to all the energetic volunteers for a pleasant day working together in the warm sunshine surrounded by our animal friends. Chores accomplished included manure management, blackberry clipping, and finishing the new gate and fence for the goats. Let’s get together again soon!
Out to Pasture is raising money to buy hay out of the field from local farmers at harvest time. Please help (by clicking here) get the barn full of hay for the next year. Thanks for your help!
Tax-deductible yard sale donations are needed for the Out to Pasture yard sale scheduled for Memorial Day weekend, May 26-27 (weather permitting). Items can be left off anytime day or night on the porch of 2907 NE Weidler St., Portland 97232 (yellow house across the street from the Hollywood Fred Meyers). Proceeds from the sale will go towards feed, veterinary care and animal housing. Contact Kit at 503-756-8652 or kit.collins@gmail.com for more information or to arrange for a tax receipt.
Our next work party will be Saturday April 14th from 1:30 to 4:30 with a tour for new folks at 1:00. Wear old clothes (rubber boots and gloves recommended), and join us to help make Out to Pasture a nicer place for the animals. Good company and vegan snacks provided. Please sign up thru Facebook or contact Kit at kit.collins@gmail.com if you plan to join us or for more information.
Thank you to Native Foods Cafe located in the Bridgeport Village in Tigard for donating a portion of the proceeds in January to the animals at Out to Pasture. This new vegan cafe has Native Community Days on two days each month when they donate a portion of the profits to a different organization each month. Out to Pasture is honored to have been selected in January and encourage everyone to check out their great vegan menu. Yum!
….from Out to Pasture Sanctuary! (click on images for larger version)
Cookie the cat was facing homelessness when her home was being foreclosed. Her unemployed caretaker often stood by the freeway entrance with a sign trying to raise money for food. His relatives did not want Cookie so she came to live at Out to Pasture as an indoor cat. (Cookie was sadly declawed at her old home but makes a great companion for Pumpkin, another indoor cat).
Enthusiastic volunteers put up a fence line for the goats, expanded the rooster pen, clipped blackberries, turned compost piles, and cleaned stalls. The blueberry bushes got pruned so we can all look forward to a nice crop of blueberries to munch on at the Open House in July. Thank you volunteers!
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