It's soup season! Piebird's Soup Mixes are back! Order
Piebird turns 17 years old! Sign up to our infrequent e-newsletter below to stay in the know with what's happening here at Piebird Farm Sanctuary!
SOUP MIXES by mail! Sherry is making vegan soup mixes that you can order in the mail, or send to a friend!
SEEDS! Our small-scale seed co is open for 2022 orders.
New! We're very excited to share these soups with you! Order them for yourself, or we can send them to your friend! “Like a warm hug!”
Our heirloom seeds! Veganically grown at Piebird Farm Sanctuary! (“Veganic” means grown without animal inputs [manure, etc]). We’re illustrating some new packaging for our seeds, check them out!
Turning previously-unwanted garments into unique Vegan fashion pieces is a positive alternative to the significant environmental (and worker) harm of the conventional textile industry. There are shirts, dresses and shawls! We have a lot of fun making these designs and doing the printing! Support the sanctuary in style!
New! Cozy up your friends' nest! We'll send them a Gift Box of Piebird Soup Mixes! (From the store select "Send to a different address" on the checkout page)
A few years ago we quietly left the social media world and that’s been such a gift of time, peace and ethics. The relationships and representation of the friends here in sanctuary never really translated well to the human-only world of online. So we instead started our Piebird Letter Club. Every month Sherry hand-writes a letter about life here in sanctuary and subscribers/supporters can get a little taste of Piebird in their mailbox. If the slowness of lettermail is more your speed then you may enjoy being a part of this unique intimate exchange.
Piebird is an independent farm sanctuary and vegan education hub in Nipissing, Ontario. Since 2005, our mission is to inspire change in human attitudes towards other animals and inspire action to make the world a better place for all.
We aim to help bring about the revolutionary shift in social consciousness to transform a culture of violence and oppression to one of nonviolence and liberation.
Outside of the spheres of animal rights, both Sherry and Yan steer the sanctuary in engaging with other intersecting circles of justice and liberation. We recognize that many entanglements of oppression and liberation are related.
With the sanctuary as our heart, we use that perspective of being-of-service to guide our outreach: creative activism workshops, community organizing and mobilizing, vegan education via cooking workshops, food sovereignty (veganic gardening education and a heirloom seed provider).
We believe in a world where all individuals of all species can flourish, free from exploitation.
We provide a loving home to animal-persons who have previously been exploited as "farmed animals”. Here in sanctuary, individuals are uplifted into liberation, celebrated for who they are and not used for product or exploited for their bodies. To us, sanctuary is a safe place for expression of peace, ideas of justice and actions of equality for all beings.
Heirloom seeds!
Upcycled and hand-printed merch!
Support the sanctuary with some fun art we made for you!
Join our Monthly Letter Club. Sherry writes a letter once a month about life here in sanctuary. If you enjoy real-mail you may enjoy being a part of this unique intimate exchange:
We'll do a few of our "How to Grow Your Own Food" veganic gardening workshops once things open up again this Spring. Sign up to our email list below to be in the know, or email us if you are really keen to sign-up.
Over these last 14 years of sanctuary, we’ve become increasingly uncomfortable with the dangers of the human gaze in the use of photography to represent animal-persons. In our visual culture, rarely are animal-persons presented with dignity. They are routinely represented as comedy, perpetual victims, or simply fetishized as objects (think of the internet’s obsession for "cute goat pics"). This representation contributes to their invisibleness rather than uplifting the identity of individuals.
As a sanctuary we have tried for several years to visually represent the friends who live here with integrity and dignity (like the sample pics below), but it no longer feels appropriate for us to contribute to the unequal relationship between the viewed and the viewer.
Going forward, we are exploring the solution of no longer taking photos of the animal-persons who live here in sanctuary, and no longer posting existing images to social media. We have discussed more perspective about this conclusion in some recent speaking engagements and if your group is interested, please get in touch. We're looking forward to find more meaningful ways to uplift the friends who live here.
