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We Were Founded With A Simple Goal

Make the world a better place. We do that by caring for rescued farmed animals and providing an idyllic sanctuary for children and families to visit and enjoy the animals and cultivated lavender and seasonal vegetables. We offer educational tours, volunteer and internship opportunities.

At Rosie's Farm Sanctuary, we understand everyone is on a different path. Our hope is foster a new awareness of the food industry and understanding about farmed animals while teaching about the benefits of plant-based eating and compassion towards all living beings

By advocating for animal rights and building community, we reconnect people with all the beauty that nature and animals have to offer. We aim to eliminate cruelty to animals and spread compassion into the hearts of all beings.

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News From The Farm

Meet Marty!
Marty is the newest member of the Rosie’s family. He is a potbelly piglet who...
Welcome Kaporos Hens!
Our Cornish Cross girls were liberated from a live wet market in Brooklyn, NY during...
Welcome “Beach Bums”
We are thrilled to introduce our recently rescued pigs from the Outer Banks in NC....

Our mission is to inspire compassion in the hearts of all people and be the voice for animals by rescuing and rehabilitating farmed animals, and providing educational programs and advocacy.

What We Do

Rescue

We rescue and rehabilitate farmed animals, providing them with a forever home. Experiencing the relative freedom they have never known before, our residents get to live out the rest of their lives as the individuals they are meant to be in this world.

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Educate

Rosie’s Farm Sanctuary welcomes visitors to spend time on the farm, self-selecting seasonal crops to buy and meeting the animals as well as their caregivers.

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Advocate

We aim to be a compassionate voice for animals who often go unseen and unheard. Most of us would never wish an animal harm, but the consumption of animal products is deeply ingrained in our society.

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Become a Volunteer & Save More Animals

Rosie’s Farm Sanctuary welcomes volunteers to help care for our animals and their home. Volunteer at the Sanctuary on a regular basis and get to know our animal residents while assisting staff with cleaning, feeding, socializing, and enrichment.

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Rosie’s Farm Sanctuary

*𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑢𝑒 *𝐴𝑑𝑣𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒 *𝐸𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒 🅥 🌱
501(c)(3)𝘕𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯
📍𝑃𝑜𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑐, 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑦𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑

Along the way, we always dreamed about a day like this.

A day where members of Congress, leaders of major animal welfare organizations, creators, advocates, influencers, and compassionate community members would gather around the same table to celebrate a kinder future.

Today, in partnership with @beyondmeat , that dream became reality! Our Compassionate Cookout was filled with meaningful conversations, incredible food, new friendships with both humans and our animal ambassadors, and a shared belief that small choices can help create a more compassionate world.

We’re still processing just how special it was ❤️ Much more to come, but here are a few moments from a day we’ll never forget.
LEAP (Leaders for Ethics, Animals, and the Planet) at Rosie’s Farm Sanctuary is more than a volunteer program—it’s an opportunity for high school students to become part of a community that’s creating a kinder future.

Through hands-on experiences at our sanctuary, @leap4animals students explore compassionate animal care, our food system, environmental stewardship, advocacy, and the connections between human, animal, and planetary wellbeing. Along the way, they’ll earn SSL hours, build leadership skills, and meet other teens who care deeply about making a difference.

If you know a student who is curious, compassionate, and ready to grow, we’d love to meet them!

✨ Applications for our 2026–2027 LEAP 1 cohort are now open
📍 Rosie’s Farm Sanctuary | Potomac, MD
📅 Meets once a month • Flexible volunteer hours
🎓 SSL hours and scholarships available

Apply through the QR code or visit our website and click on the Learn tab 💜
Peanut the squirrel update for you!

The good news: we were finally able to connect with Second Chance Wildlife and have a little more clarity. It turns out Peanut is right on the cusp of being self-sufficient, which makes this a much less clear-cut situation than we originally thought.

The other good news? We’ve had multiple sightings of her, and since that funny, sweet, Disney-themed day she has not approached another human—not even Chase. Which is exactly what we’d hope for if she’s figuring out how to be a wild squirrel.

We’ve put a squirrel box in one of the trees she was frequenting and will be adding more, just in case she decides she’d like some real estate options.

The bad news: all of this means we don’t have any new Peanut content to share right now. Trust us, no one is more disappointed than we are, but we are here to support whatever is best for sweet Peanut.

We’ll of course keep you posted if our tiny celebrity makes another appearance and if we feel like it’s in her best interest to be taken to Second Chance Wildlife for rehabilitation, we will do that. Thank you for loving her like we do! 💜🥜

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Animals

Every year, around 80 billion land animals are slaughtered for human consumption by many estimates. When it comes to fish and other aquatic animals, this heartbreaking figure soars into the trillions.

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Health

The farming of animals poses alarming dangers to human health, especially as the animal agriculture industry continues to intensify around the world.

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Environment

Animal agriculture’s devastating impacts on climate change and our environment have been well-documented by scientists around the world.

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Social Justice

Tens of billions of farmed animals suffer and die each year so that lucrative animal agriculture corporations can continue to profit from global demand for their unsustainable products.

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How You Can Help

There are so many reasons to transition to veganism. Some choose plant-based diets because they want to help save animals, others do it to protect our planet or to avoid the health risks associated with consuming animal products.

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"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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