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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

There is something so profoundly beautiful about watching them run just because they can. Jump because they’re happy. Play because they feel safe. 

Animals want to feel good in their lives, just as we do. And when we allow ourselves to really see their joy—their curiosity, their friendships, their sheer delight in being alive—it becomes harder to accept causing them harm.

Maybe compassion can begin right here: wanting more moments like this for them. 🤍
We’re recruiting high school students for our 2026–27 @leap4animals program at Rosie’s!

LEAP—Leaders for Ethics, Animals, and the Planet—is a year-long program for students who care about animals, the environment, food systems, human health, and making a meaningful difference in their communities.

LEAPers meet monthly to learn from experts, take part in hands-on workshops at Rosie’s and other local organizations, work directly with animals, tackle environmental and community projects, explore plant-based cooking and food systems, and earn SSL hours through meaningful service.

Students don’t need to come in knowing exactly what they want to do or having all the answers. We’re looking for young people who are curious, compassionate, open to new ideas, and ready to get involved.

Applications for the 2026–27 cohort are open now! Have a high school student in your life who sounds like a LEAPer? Send this their way—or tag someone who should know about the program.
This view 😍😂👂

How can one little creature be so wonderfully regal and magical and ridiculous all at once?!? We love you, Brucey!
Looking for something meaningful to do this weekend?

Spend an afternoon at Rosie’s meeting the remarkable animals who call the sanctuary home!! Our small-group educational tours offer a chance to hear their stories, ask questions, and experience the sanctuary in a way that’s personal and memorable (hint: you may be “forced” to give Marty a belly rub and get a big kiss from Mickey).

We still have a few spots available this weekend. We’d love to welcome you. 💜
Mira’s love language is comin’ in hot 😂😬🤣
We don’t think Dani and Sunshine knew strawberries would be part of sanctuary life when they jumped from those transport trucks.

All we know is that their courage changed everything ❤️🍓
We still have just a couple of spots left in this year’s LEAP (Leaders for Ethics, Animals, and the Planet) program—and we’d love to fill them with thoughtful, compassionate high school students who want to make a difference!!! 🌱

LEAP is so much more than a volunteer program. It’s a chance to become part of a community working to build a kinder future.

Through hands-on experiences at Rosie’s Farm 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 connect with other teens who care deeply about creating positive change.

If there’s a student in your life who would thrive in a program like this, we’d love to meet them!

✨ Only a few spaces remain for our 2026–2027 LEAP 1 cohort.
📍 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 the Learn tab. We’d love to welcome a few more future changemakers into the LEAP community. 💜
🎨 Calling All Local Artists 🫟

Help us bring a little more color, joy, and compassion to Rosie’s Farm Sanctuary!

We’re looking for local artists or community groups who would be interested in volunteering their time to create murals on some of our buildings and spaces around the sanctuary. We’d love to collaborate on concepts that reflect the spirit of Rosie’s—animals as individuals, kindness, hope, nature, and the power of compassion.

Whether you’re an experienced muralist, part of an art collective, a student group, or simply someone with a passion for creating meaningful public art, we’d love to hear from you.
Our hope is to transform these spaces into something that makes every visitor feel welcomed, inspired, and connected the moment they arrive.

Interested? Send us a message at info@rosiesfarmsanctuary.org with a little about yourself (or your group) and examples of your work if you have them. We can’t wait to dream up something beautiful together. 💜
No part of this required chickens, and yet it did 😅🫠🤣🙄
Asking for a friend who has no ducks 🤣🐓🤪
Do you know what you need today? To stare at some baby Coco pics!!! 

How cute was she?! She still makes all of these exact same expressions 🥹
A big thank you to the students and staff from Friendship Public Charter School for joining us at Rosie’s for educational tours!! 💜

For every student, this was their first visit to an animal sanctuary, and for many, their first time ever meeting a farmed animal face-to-face.

Creating opportunities for people to know these animals as individuals—not just ideas—is at the heart of our mission. Every conversation, question, laugh, and connection matters…and there was plenty of all of the above!

Thank you for your curiosity, compassion, and openness. We loved having you here. 🐄🐖🐑✨
When you stop focusing on what they are, you start seeing who they are. 🐷💞🐶
Not everything that looks good on a college application actually changes you.

The @leap4animals Internship Program at Rosie’s Farm Sanctuary is different.

If you’re the kind of person who cares deeply about animals, the environment, justice, leadership, or the future of our planet—and sometimes feels like not enough people around you are asking those same questions—you might have found your people.

Applications for the 2026–2027 school year are now open. Come see why our students say LEAP at Rosie’s gave them more than SSL hours. It helped them discover what they care about—and what they’re capable of. ✨

Take the LEAP and apply today!
These babies just had to jump from trucks onto the highway for the simple privilege of growing up.

Imagine what becomes possible when compassion leads the way. 💜🌱

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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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