When plants are food
&
Animals are friends
Who We Are
Our mission
Our mission is to provide high quality life-long care for animals in need and to educate the public on alternative cruelty-free and sustainable options.
Our vision
Our visions is to redefine the modern farm to be pillars of every community where animals are respected companions and the produce grown goes directly to its community members. We want to see a world where all animals are respected as the cognitive, sentient beings they are, and where mass agriculture has been replaced with community gardens, local farms, and edible landscapes.
Our story
Flora and Fauna Farm Sanctuary was founded in 2022, but it was dreamt up almost 20 years prior and took decades to thoughtfully forge into reality. Our Founder, Bridget Stickels, knew she had a special connection with animals since she was a little girl, and always knew her life’s path was to protect them. She dedicated her life to that pursuit, volunteering/working with numerous animal rescues, sanctuaries, and rehabilitation centers and obtaining two degrees that focused on the impacts on animals in captivity.
The catalyst to finally starting Flora and Fauna Farm Sanctuary was in 2021 when Bridget resigned from her job as a keeper at a wolf “sanctuary.” After being a part of yet another animal organization who exploited the word “sanctuary,” its animal care professionals, and the animals in their care, Bridget had had enough. She was sick of witnessing sanctuaries be some of the worst perpetrators of animal abuse, largely run by people with good intentions, but whose ignorance, ego, and neglect to pursue up-to-date information resulted in the continued abuse of the animals in their care. She now not only wanted to make the world a better place for animals, but to create an organization that pushed the field as a whole towards higher standards.
As a long time animal welfare and conservation activist, Bridget knew how important community involvement was to creating meaningful change, which is why she wanted the sanctuary to also function as a plant-based farm. By empowering communities to grow their own food and by making healthy options easily accessible to all, she hopes to create healthier people who are less reliant on big pharma and mass agriculture–two leading causes of animal cruelty, the wildlife crisis, the climate crisis, and the health crisis in the United States.
With all of that in mind, a dream team was built of passionate, educated individuals, and Flora and Fauna Farm Sanctuary was born!