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You Made Our Rescue Animals Happy with TREES!

 

Happy New Year!

Thank you for your 2024 Holiday trees - we have over 800 trees and our meadow is full!

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The Sanctuary meadow is full in record time!

At this time, please don't bring your Christmas tree here. Please recycle your tree local to your home with a town composting program, or leave your tree in the backyard as a wildlife/bird windbreak and habitat. There is truly no more room here, thank you!

Remember for next year: no box-store trees, pleeze pleeze no tinsel, no plastics, no garbage, no light strands, no ornaments, no wreaths, no tree stands. We appreciate your help with this.

Have a great 2025. 🌲

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For Next Christmas! December 2025:

• There are signs there that clearly mark where to leave your tree. 

• We are unable to pick up trees, sorry. We cannot take in bulk trees.

• Trees should still be green and lively - no trees please where all the needles fall off as you put them on your vehicle  because no one here can eat that.

• Please do not bring your big pine branches that have fallen in your yard.

• None of the rescues can consume blue spruce and spruce, too prickly!

• Trees should be whole (or perhaps cut in half). Please don't bring the in a bag with all the branches removed from the trunk. 

• No trees with tinsel, light strands, decorations or spray flocking of course. 

• PLEASE don't bring a tree from a big box store, their growers might use flame retardants, colorants and preservative sprays toxic to the animals. Here is why we are so picky

• Pesticides are applied to trees early in the growing season so are no longer present in the tree - but that being said, organic trees are better for the environment. An artificial tree lasts in a landfill for an extremely long time unfortunately.

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You may enjoy viewing the goats and Maxine the Llama at the parking lot, but please don't walk into the main animal area (signs are clear) unless on a tour, or as a trained volunteer (there are clear signs there). Sanctuary Tours resume in March! We also have 4.5 miles of public walking trails in our woods, dawn to dusk.

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If you loved meeting the goats and the gang, enjoy our 24/7 live webcams!

Thank you for bringing us your trees!

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• Brianna Borghi of WCVB cam by in 2024 with a video news piece from WCVB

• Here is a fun video news piece from WCVB in 2023

• WGBH mentions the Sanctuary in recycling your tree to a good cause here!

• David O'Leary, Sue Tabb, and Kendra the Entertainer spoke to me on Morning Magic 106.7FM

• Another article with WBZ 

• And CBS Mornings has a little video update

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