BEAUtiful Farm needs your help to let LOVE Win!
Hi my name is Christy Sami, I am the owner of BEAUtiful Farm located in Rockaway Twp. NJ! My husband Brian and I bought our historic stone farm house and the 10 acres it resides on back to life in 2019 & 2020. Our farm is over 90 years old and has been farm assessed until 2018 where it was lost due to the unfortunate sale and foreclosure of the previous owners.
We are fighting our neighbors for our "Right to Farm."
BEAUtiful Farm officially opened in September of 2020, smack dab in the middle of the Global Pandemic.
Here at BEAUtiful Farm, we are incredibly inclusive and we welcome people of all ages, colors, genders, sexual orientation, etc. We teach animal husbandry with horses, Hamlet the pig, the chickens, the pups, etc!
BEAUtiful Farm offers farm camps, where the kids are immersed in nature around the farm. They learn about the flora and fauna, as well as native species and how to protect them and their habitat. We are a no technology zone, when you are here, you are here; the kids don't even miss it.
We offer riding lessons as well; lead line, and longe line through advanced riding lessons to students at the farm who are not only looking to improve their riding, but their knowledge of horsemanship. All of our students are responsible for their own horse, even as young as 3 years old, they groom, help tack up, and successfully turnout their horse for a ride! It builds confidence, skill, teaches empathy, and much more as well as gives the horses and students something to look forward to daily.
And now for the issues! We have several neighbors who do not appreciate what we are doing here at the farm. They don't like the traffic or operations of our farm. We have unfortunately come into some legal bills by trying to keep our programs alive for our amazing kids and students. We have been harassed by our neighbors since we started as they do not want a "commercial farm in their neighborhood."
While we are making great strides to acquire our farm assessment status, our defense against a few neighbors have forced us to ask the public for some assistance.
Our goal is to raise enough money to help cover our legal bills and anything above our goal will go to North Star Pet Rescue - a registered 501c3 located in Boonton NJ. We got our beloved pup Jade from them this past spring!
We ask that you help us keep the farm going with any amount of generosity that you can muster.
I can't imagine having to tell the kiddos they can't come and feel safe at our BEAUtiful Farm.
Thank you for your time and consideration ❤️
Sincerely
Christy Sami & Brian Caine
Owners of BEAUtiful Farm
Www.BEAUtifulFarms.org
