Give an Animal to a Family in Need
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 poorest regions in Appalachia
and in India.
Please let us choose which
area is most in need of your gift, as animal availability varies according
to the season in each region.
All animals support rural families that need to
grow vegetables, fruit, or grains for their own nutrition or for income.
They do this by eliminating weeds and fertilizing the land. In
addition, certain animals perform specialized tasks: Chickens, for example,
kill mice and eat insects that are destructive to crops. Oxen pull the
plow enabling the farmer to farm 10 times more than that he could using hand
tools. Beyond that, a number of animals produce a steady supply of protein
foods, such as milk and eggs, or fiber such as wool, which can be a
source of income.
Garden Harvest nurtures all living beings. As
such, 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.
Garden Harvest provides only those animals that themselves
produce food, either directly as in milk & eggs, or indirectly
as in oxen that clear land & pull plows so that crops can be grown.
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.
For those who prefer to MAIL in your
gift of farm animals, Click Here for a Printable Form. |
