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Garden Harvest employing animals to fight Hunger

 
         

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Give a Farm Animal to a Family in Need

Indian Family with their donated cows A major part of Garden Harvest's fight against hunger & poverty is the provision of food-producing animals to the rural poor.  We serve the poor regions in Appalachia  and in India.  WE choose the area where your gift will be placed, as animal availability varies according to the season in each region. 

All donations are made online. We do not accept phone or mail-in orders at this time.

Why Donate Through Garden Harvest?

Garden Harvest is not the biggest charity that donates farm animals, but we try harder!  We are very thorough, and hence, we are very effective. 

For example, it sounds very nice to give a baby goat away to a needy family. But there can be serious problems with that:  You can’t just give baby goats to poor families who can’t even afford to feed themselves.  Baby goats need to be fed their mothers' milk or bottle-fed a formula for three months, and then they need a diet of fresh pasture or hay. All the while the baby goat is not contributing anything to the family. And for those that don't have good pasture, the expense is impossible. It will be seven months before the baby goat can be bred and another 5 months before she gives birth and begins producing milk. Baby goat that will be returned to the family when lactating

To solve these problems, Garden Harvest gives fully mature lactating goats to the poorest families. These are goats that are already producing milk so that the destitute families receive instant nourishment and even income from the sale of excess milk that they don’t consume. 

Garden Harvest also provides all that the family needs to care for their goat: Hay, if there is not adequate fodder; medication, for immunizations, worming;  fencing, when necessary; and training, in milking, hoof trimming.  Garden Harvest works with the families that do have land to teach them how to use the fertilizer provided by their goat to enrich their soil and establish irrigation so that they will be able to produce their own fodder and hay.

Another problem arises in that goats need at least two months off a year from milk production in order to build their bodies up for their next delivery of babies. To solve that problem, recipient families are welcome to have a Garden Harvest center care for their goat during her dry period & breed her for the next lactating cycle. The benefits to the families are multifold:

1) They don't have the expense of feeding & caring for their goat when she is not producing milk;

2) They don't have the expense of caring for a male all year just for the breeding;

3) They still receive their original goat back once she has given birth and is producing milk again;

For those families that are poor but have access to fenced pasture, Garden Harvest provides female Kids, 3-5 months old. These families cannot afford the start-up costs of purchasing a goat, but do have decent pasture , so they have what it takes to keep their goat and have it fertilize the land and keep weeds down while growing.  Garden Harvest takes care of the breeding of the goat and even the goat's babies once born so the family can have full use of all the milk.

In this way, being just as thorough in the placement of its sheep, cows, oxen, and poultry, Garden Harvest goes the extra mile to ensure that all the animals it places receive the best care and that the families it serves becomes financially independent.

All the animals Garden Harvest places produce food both directly and indirectly:

Female goats, sheep, and cows all produce milk, which can beBottle feeding a lamb. simply drunk or made into other products with a longer shelf life, like yogurt, kefir, and cheese.  Chickens, ducks, geese produce eggs.  But their contributions don't stop there.  Each of these animals performs a valuable job that produces food indirectly:  All of them fertilize, which increases soil fertility and hence yield per acre. Goats, cows, sheep, and geese keep the weeds down, and do so as effectively and more safely than mechanized equipment or chemicals. Chickens control rodents and soil living insects. Ducks eliminate noxious insects that live on plant leaves. Oxen pull plows.  Garden Harvest teaches people how to employ their animals to produce crops suitable to their region. And, remember, animals LOVE their work, and, when the moon is bright, they work joyfully 24/7!

Garden Harvest nurtures all living beings.  We do not raise animals for slaughter. 

A major part of our work is teaching  people the world over how to employ animals to produce food in ways that are good for everyone: The Earth, the people, and the animals.

 Every donated animal is placed with a family that has an environment best suited for the specific animal's needs and abilities, an environment where it can thrive & be most productive. People are trained to first recognize and then maximize the contributions these animals continuously make to the production of food for their families.  Hence, people are shown how to make it economically beneficial to let the animals live out their natural lives, euthenizing them only when they start to decline. 

We acknowledge that there are times when taking an animal's.. life becomes necessary, either due to old age, a physical defect, uncontrollable aggression, or simply an overabundance of males.  The proper thing to do in that case is for the family to eat the meat of the animal or give it to a needy family to eat.  While slaughtering eventually becomes necessary, animals are not raised for the primary purpose of being slaughtered.

 

 

 

 

 

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