My Gentle Barn
Creating a Sanctuary Where Animals Heal and Children Learn to Hope
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4.7 • 37 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
“My Gentle Barn is a wonderful book. You'll love Ellie Laks and the animals she rescued--and who rescued her back.” –Sy Montgomery, The Good Good Pig
Founder Ellie Laks started The Gentle Barn after adopting a sick goat from a run-down petting zoo in 1999. Some two hundred animals later (including chickens, horses, pigs, cows, rabbits, emus, and more), The Gentle Barn has become an extraordinary nonprofit that brings together a volunteer staff of community members and at-risk teens to rehabilitate abandoned and/or abused animals. As Ellie teaches the volunteers to care for the animals, they learn a new language of healing that works wonders on the humans as well.
The Gentle Barn weaves together the story of how the Barn came to be what it is today with Ellie's own journey. Filled with heartwarming animal stories and inspiring recoveries, The Gentle Barn is a feel-good account that will delight animal lovers and memoir readers alike.
Customer Reviews
Great read
I loved this book, and love what you do for the animals and children, you guys are truly angels on earth. God bless
The Gentle Barn
This is a story of a broken heart & it's healing. & it's healing other hearts as it healed. Ellie doesn't talk about God a lot, but she lives in harmony with His goodness, kindness, & compassion! Ellie doesn't preach or politicize. She just lives the passion she's been given & it has attracted many.
I am not vegan or vegetarian, but I'm smitten!