Wild Hearts provides rescue, sanctuary, and advocacy for abandoned and abused horses, and fosters healing relationships between humans, animals, and the land.
Every year tens of thousands of unwanted horses are sold and shipped internationally for slaughter, suffering inhumane transportation and death simply because they are no longer useful to their owners. It is our mission to rescue these magnificent creatures from this pipeline and provide care for them here at the Minnesota Ecovillage Project.
We buy these horses at local farm auctions who would otherwise be sold for slaughter, and rehabilitate them with medical care, a healthy diet, training, and plenty of rest. Some are re-homed through foster farms or adoption, while others stay and become trail riding horses or therapeutic friends.
Ways to Support our Horse Rescue
Volunteering: Help is always needed caring for the horses. By volunteering one gets to nourish themselves through bonding with horses and spending time in nature. Please email us wildheartsrescuesanctuary@gmail.com to sign up to volunteer.
Donating: Donations are tax deductable and can be made by venmo to @MinnesotaEcovillage, check, written out to “Minnesota Ecovillage Project”, or by PayPal through our donation link. Please email us if you are donating as we would love to hear about you and your cause.
Adoption, Foster and Sponsorship: See our profiles page for more info on adoption, fostering and sponsoring.
Donating Supplies: A long list of supplies is constantly needed to rehabilitate and care for our animals. Please consider supporting us by donating one or more of the items below. Donations can be dropped off in person, allowing one to meet the horses, or sent by mail. (For larger items please contact us at wildheartsrescuesanctuary@gmail.com first to agree upon model and specifics of item to be donated)
Supplies Needed
- Rope Halters
- Rope Leads
- Horse Feed: Grain, High protein feed, Triple crown senior feed, Beet pulp, Alfalfa cubes
- Feed Pans and Buckets
- Hay Bales (round or square)
- Supplements; Cool calories and Triamino
- Water troughs
- Ritchie automatic waterer
- Round bale feeder (especially a “hay manager” but would accept any round bale feeders or nets)
- Saddles and Saddle parts (used is fine)
- Pasture seed and Mineral blocks
- Fly spray/ointment (zinc oxide baby rash cream and vics vaporrub as well),
- Fly masks and Fly sheets and Fly boots
- Winter blankets
- Round pen, Livestock panels, Livestock gates
- Rope or Tape electric fencing, Solar electric fencer, T-posts
- Dewormer, also accepting medications equiox, bute, and prascend
