Kelly McCormick and Glenn Maresca–co-founders of Florida Rescue Farm, a sanctuary in Duette, FL, devoted to rescuing, rehabilitating, and housing pigs, goats, geese, chickens, ducks, cattle, other critters, and no less devoted to cultivating a strong educational presence—described the remote community of Duette, and what prompted them to settle there.
They make clear their original intention in relocating there (and leaving city life behind) was to homestead on the five and a half acre parcel they occupy.
But those plans were scuttled when Maresca rescued an orphaned calf named Moobee. This turned out to be a pivotal moment that not only transformed Moobee’s life, but McCormick and Maresca’s life, too (including that they went fully vegan), as well as the lives of dozens of farmed animals that the pair has subsequently rescued.
In turn, Maresca recalls, Moobee (perhaps feeling a debt of gratitude) engaged in an unusual behavior—joined in short order by the other resident cows, encircling Maresca–protecting him, he realized, from two coyotes ambling through the sanctuary grounds.
Yet another major, transformative episode for Maresca and McCormick, part of the duo’s arrival at their revised gameplan for the property—turning it into a vegan homestead.
They also address the parallel priority at Florida Rescue Farm: McCormick and Maresca have cultivated a substantial educational predilection, both implied, in the sensibility of the sanctuary—to oversimplify, the ethos is: animals are our friends, not our food—and directly, in the educational tours they regularly offer, and other related experiences.
So, they explain, not just volunteers, but also visitors to the sanctuary are inculcated with the Rescue Farm philosophy, implementing a central facet of the sanctuary’s mission, improving the lives of all creatures who reside or spend time at the Duette facility.
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God bless you both commitment help End Speciesism which will help to end violence worldwide. Deep respect, many blessings and much love 💕
I would love to relocate on a property next to your sanctuary so that I can volunteer as well as donate to your Sanctuary. I want to help doing the most important thing that we can do on this planet. I will work until I die. This is the best legacy that we as high luvevolved people, rather than regular unevolved humans, who care only for themselves rather than animals, the children and the planet. Please let me know if there is property near you that is affordable that I can pay for a small lot and place a tiny home on it. And spend my days working for you and the animals.. I truly believe that I can be a great help to you and your quest.
God bless you forever. 🌱🐾💚