The Minnesota Ecovillage Project is home to Wild Hearts Rescue Santuary, a horse rescue and rehabilitation center. Every Year tens of thousands of unwanted horses in the US get shipped to be slaughtered in other countries. We pull the horses that we can from this pipeline and provide care for them here. It is our mission to save these horses, rehabilitate, re-train and eventually re-home them to healthy environments. We are also currently working on advocacy to try to illegalize this practice of selling horses to foriegn slaughterhouses. Many of our horses are available for adoption or foster and we try to find as many good homes as possible to allow us to rescue more.
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 to wildheartsrescuesanctuary@gmail.com. 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.
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.