Arcadia’s Shelter Farm Sanctuary celebrates its second anniversary with a vegan party on Saturday, April 10. The “day of food and friendship” includes animal snuggles and food from Tampa Bay area vegan restaurants including Nah Dogs, The Vegan Halal Cart, Golden dinosaurs, and Three Dot Dash.
If you are unfamiliar with the nonprofit, Shelter Farm rescues animals providing them with a safe space to live out their years. Cows, pigs, tortoises, chickens, goats and other animals call the Sanctuary home.
“We believe very strongly in every being’s right to safe shelter, love, and compassion. Thus, we provide farmed (and other) animals with a safe, loving, forever home free from fear and pain,” owners Mike and Jenni Pressley describe on the farm’s website, “We rescue animals who are abandoned and neglected, who are in danger of being slaughtered, or who happen to find themselves in similar unsafe situations.
The farm is located at 1837 SW County Road 769, in Arcadia—about an hour east of Sarasota.
To accommodate for social-distancing, the day is split into two time slots: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. or 1:30-3:30 p.m. Tickets for either time slot are $40.
Tickets are available at eventbrite.com. If you can go, but want to donate to the farm, you can do so at its website.
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This article appears in Apr 8-14, 2021.