About — Sleepy Tales Farm Sanctuary

Who we are

A founder-led nonprofit, formed to give rescued farm animals a permanent home and to teach our wider community how to make their own yards into living habitat.

How we work

In partnership with local animal control, neighboring sanctuaries, and individual surrenders — with every intake decided by the animal’s welfare and our current capacity.

What we offer

Lifelong sanctuary for rescued farm animals, native habitat restoration on the property, and hands-on backyard conservation education for the surrounding community.

Our story

Sleepy Tales started with a single, stubborn idea: build a place where a rescued cow can grow old without being moved again, where a child can meet a chicken and a milkweed plant in the same afternoon, and where the lessons learned at the farm travel home into someone’s backyard pollinator patch.

We’re still early. The land isn’t fenced yet. The barn isn’t built. The first resident animal hasn’t arrived. What we have is a clear plan, a founder ready to do the unglamorous work, and a growing circle of supporters who believe conservation is a thing you practice, not a thing you outsource.

“We’d rather take in one animal well than ten poorly. Slow is a feature, not a bug.”
— Eileen Keating, Founder & Executive Director

Leadership

Eileen Keating

Founder & Executive Director

Eileen leads the sanctuary’s day-to-day vision — animal welfare, native habitat restoration, and the education programs that connect the two. She has spent years building informal community around backyard conservation and is now formalizing that work into a public sanctuary.

Director of Operations

To be announced

We’re finalizing the operational leadership for Sleepy Tales Farm Sanctuary. The role oversees facilities, intake logistics, vendor relationships, and the systems work that turns a sanctuary vision into a functioning nonprofit.

Board of Directors

Our founding board is being formed. We’re recruiting directors with backgrounds in animal welfare, conservation science, nonprofit finance, and community education. If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

Board Chair — to be announced
Treasurer — to be announced
Secretary — to be announced
Director, Animal Welfare — to be announced
Director, Conservation Education — to be announced

Values

Animals first. Every operational decision begins with the animal’s comfort, safety, and lifelong wellbeing.
Native by default. We restore with the plants and pollinators that belong here, not the ones that look tidy in a catalogue.
Hands-on, not hand-wringing. We teach by doing — small, repeatable steps anyone can take home.
Plain language. No jargon, no fundraising theater. We’ll always tell you what your gift did.
Slow growth. We’d rather take in one animal well than ten poorly.

Where we are

Sleepy Tales Farm Sanctuary is in the formation and land-acquisition stage. The sanctuary’s service area and physical address will be published once the property is secured and the first animals are in residence. In the meantime, all correspondence can be sent to [email protected].

A small farm with a long view.