My Gentle Barn: Creating a Sanctuary Where Animals Heal and Children Learn to Hope

My Gentle Barn: Creating a Sanctuary Where Animals Heal and Children Learn to Hope

Founder Ellie Laks started The Gentle Barn after adopting a sick goat from a run-down petting zoo in 1999. Some two hundred animals later (including chickens, horses, pigs, cows, rabbits, emus, and mo…

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