Charlotte Farms Animal Sanctuary

01/19/2025

The BEST news EVER!
Our sweet new horse that we rescued this month from certain death has been sponsored!
Patti found out about our farm last week and reached out to us. She started following our stories and told us she wants to come down and connect with our new horse and sponsor her.
Patti worked with horses her entire life and it was a match made in heaven.
Heartbroken by her sad story, Patti wanted to give her a strong name to match her strong spirit, that despite everything she’s been through, she did not lose her personality and now she has a new loving home, a new loving mama and a NEW NAME!
🌹ESTHER🌹
As one of the strongest women in the Bible, this name is appropriate for our courageous girl!
Thank you Patti Conboy for sponsoring her and caring for her. We look forward to seeing you at our farm as often and you like to care for your new sweet girl! 🙏🏽

Please reach out to us to join our growing list of animal sponsors, and partner with us to breathe new life into these sweet animals.

To donate and help sustain our farm you can go on our website www.charlottefarms.org or through our PayPal foundation https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VQBHJE8G24AGG

01/16/2025

Jan 15,2025
We received ANOTHER call from the Jackson PD & the OCPO.
ANOTHER farm was found to be starving and abusing their animals.
We arrived to the scene of several deceased animals and many that were on deaths door and needed rehoming.
This is the 3rd call we got in less than a month.
When will the abuse end? When will people stop torturing poor defenceless animals😔
Total animals rescued
4 goats
17 chicken
10 ducks
4 turkeys
35 animal in total that we took in without question.
NJ Department Of Agriculture will be finalizing testing and we will be able to integrate these animals into their own kind at our sanctuary

We are cleaning and setting up new corrals for our expanding sanctuary. We cannot do this without your help.
Now more than ever our animals need you!
Our already huge overhead is getting bigger as the need to feed, hay, medical and corral maintenance grows.
Please share and spread the work so the everyone can see the work we do!
Donations can be made
on our website www.charlottefarms.org
Venmo - our handle is charlottefarms
Zelle - [email protected].
PayPal - https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=VQBHJE8G24AGG

Please help us in anyway you can.
All donation are 100% tax deductible and every penny goes straight towards our animals.

01/13/2025

Our sanctuary is growing! We have taken animals from three separate rescue missions this month, and as recent as yesterday - we will post details once investigation is complete.
As we grow the need for hay and feed for our animals grows as well.
We have run out of feed early, our stock usually lasts months but with the cold weather and the new animals we are a month short. We have to send a truck to pickup this feed today so our animals will have food for the next 2 months. We need $948.75 to cover this cost.
Any contribution will be greatly appreciated.
Donations are tax deductible and we can provide tax receipts.
Donations can be made via our website www.charlottefarms.org
PayPal/zelle - [email protected]
Venmo - our handle is charlottefarms
Or to mail or if you need any other information please message us.
Thank you everyone for your continued support! We wouldn’t be able to do this work without you!

01/09/2025

🐐LOUIE🐐 Thank you to for sponsoring our beautiful blue eyed goat.
This was one of the coldest days of the year but the warmth & love Paula has shown our animals has kept us all warm ❤️. Thank you for partenering with us in keeping our animals safe and happy, your help has made all the difference in the world for our rescues.
THANK YOU!

Sponsorships of our other animals are available and are great way to help support our great cause! Please message us for details!

01/07/2025

Another day, another call from the Ocean County prosecutors office….
It’s unbelievable that we are in 2025 and we are still dealing with people abusing and torturing animals 😔
Multiple state & local agencies were involved in this rescue mission. This was an animal abuse factory ( we cannot elaborate ) , and several deceased and tortured animals were found on site.
We received the call last week to take in and rehome the few remaining animals that escaped death, although looked severely tortured and malnourished .
We took in these animals without hesitation. They will be kept under quarantine until the OCPO & the Dept. of agriculture completes its lab analysis, but they are safe and we will do everything in our power to give a safe and loving home to them and every animal that is in situations like these.

Stories like these are enormously heartbreaking, words cannot describe the scene we witnessed, but this is all the more reason to keep continuing to work that we do so we can raise awareness about what’s going on in the world and that these poor animals can have a safe home to live abuse free.
please help spread the word and support our mission so we can continue doing this important work and provide love and care to all animals in desperate need.
💔💔💔😔

Donations are the best way to help us. Every penny goes straight towards our animals,
they can be made via our website, www.charlottefarms.org, Venmo, PayPal or Zelle . [email protected]

Thank you so much for your continued support and please reach out if you can help and want to be involved.

12/22/2024

WARNING: this post contains pictures that may be sensitive to some.

Very sad animal cruelty situation from today. 💔There is some good news though.

We were contacted by the Jackson Police Department in conjunction with the Ocean County Prosecutors Office about an animal abuse situation at a local farm in Jackson , NJ.

They received a call about an animal fatality at a farm and proceeded to investigate.
What they found was heartbreaking .
A 1500lb+ cow deceased on the floor and another cow and a horse that were barely alive and dying from apparent starvation.
Local towns are not equipped to deal with situations like this, so the police called us and asked us to intervene.
We responded right away and found that the deceased cow had died from starvation and an extreme case of dehydration.
The cow and the horse that were there were in need of serious care and desperate for a new home.
It was without hesitation that we agreed to take these animals in and nurse them back to health.
A warrant was issued by the Ocean County Prosecutors Office, and the animals were released to us.
These two animals are now at our sanctuary, being cared for and getting ready to be settled into their new home.
When some people ask, what benefit is there to have and organization like us around, it is for countless situations like this where animals are in dire straights and unfortunately, most of the time dying after months of abuse and torture.
We are here 100% to care for animals and to educate the public about the cruelty that animals face in the world these days.
It is unfortunate, but had we gotten this call sooner we may have been able to save the other cow as well.
Please help support our mission and support our sanctuary so we can continue caring for and feeding these animals. Despite everything we are going through, we will not stop, so that we can keep providing these animals with the safe and loving home that they deserve. ❤️

Donations can be made via our website www.charlottefarms.org
PayPal / Zelle - [email protected]
Venmo - https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3912075743070049050&created=1734832759.670485&printed=1
Or you can come by and make your donation in person. We are open Sundays from 11-3.

12/09/2024

Our new go fund me is live!
Please please share! We have until Christmas to save our Sanctuary!

https://gofund.me/4a73191c

Hi,
Charlotte Farms is a farm animal sanctuary.
We save and rescue abused and neglected animals and give them a safe and loving forever home. We have over 200 animals that we rescued and keep getting requests.
Our beautiful farm is open every Sunday and on holidays for people to come see the work we do and get educated on animal cruelty that is out there.
We are in a battle for our life with the township to stay open.
They are trying every which way to shut us down. We do not know why or what their problem with us is.
We have spent every month in court since we purchased the property two years ago.
The town’s newest way to shut us down arrived in the mail yesterday.
We were granted non-profit status for our farm, which exempted us from paying property taxes. The town decided 2 days ago that they are only allowing us to exempt 5 acres of our property and the rest they are billing us retroactively! This put us in a default for the entire calendar year of taxes and allows them to put our property up for tax sale.
They sent us the letter on December 2nd with a deadline to pay $9372.80 by December 27th!
WE NEED A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!
Please, please help us reach our goal so we can pay off our taxes.
Oh, and we will be appealing every penny of taxes, but they gave us an impossible deadline with no time to fight.
Please help our animals keep their home!

12/08/2024

Our new go fund me is live!
Please please share! We have until Christmas to save our Sanctuary!

https://gofund.me/4a73191c

Hi,
Charlotte Farms is a farm animal sanctuary.
We save and rescue abused and neglected animals and give them a safe and loving forever home. We have over 200 animals that we rescued and keep getting requests.
Our beautiful farm is open every Sunday and on holidays for people to come see the work we do and get educated on animal cruelty that is out there.
We are in a battle for our life with the township to stay open.
They are trying every which way to shut us down. We do not know why or what their problem with us is.
We have spent every month in court since we purchased the property two years ago.
The town's newest way to shut us down arrived in the mail yesterday.
We were granted non-profit status for our farm, which exempted us from paying property taxes. The town decided 2 days ago that they are only allowing us to exempt 5 acres of our property and the rest they are billing us retroactively! This put us in a default for the entire calendar year of taxes and allows them to put our property up for tax sale.
They sent us the letter on December 2nd with a deadline to pay $9372.80 by December 27th!
WE NEED A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!
Please, please help us reach our goal so we can pay off our taxes.
Oh, and we will be appealing every penny of taxes, but they gave us an impossible deadline with no time to fight.
Please help our animals keep their home!

Hi, Charlotte Farms is a farm animal sanctuary. We save… Charlotte Farms Animal Sanctuary needs your support for Support Charlotte Farms: Prevent Tax Sale

12/06/2024

Bad news right before the holidays.

We received this tax bill yesterday, December 4th, it’s dated December 2nd, stating our farm is being sold at a tax sale if we do not pay $9372.80 by Christmas.
No this is not a hallmark movie.
We spent the morning in the township.
They decided that our Non Profit status will only cover 5 acres of land and they want tax money for the remaining acreage and the homes on the property.
We explained that every part of the property is used for the Non Profit but they don’t care.
They sprung this on us 2 days ago with no notice, and said are taxes are delinquent for the entire year which allows them to sell our property in a tax sale.
Convenient? For them.
We are now up against the wall. We cannot pay this bill in addition to the huge cost of operating our sanctuary and fighting their zoning issue as well.
We need to raise $9372.80 by Christmas or we will be forced to close down and put our beloved sanctuary up for sale.
This is the end of the road if we cannot raise this money.
I know everyone has done so much for us and we appreciate it so much but if anyone can help or knows any person or foundation that can help us raise this money so we can stay open and help all animals please send them our info.
We need a Christmas Miracle or we will lose everything we’ve built.
We can’t fight city hall on this one, this needs to get paid.
Payments can be made directly to the township , just use the tax bill we’ve posted ,
Or you can donate to our go fund me
Or any of these options
Venmo
PayPal/zelle [email protected]
We can take a check or a card as well, please PM us .
Comments have been disabled for this post since we will be shut down u less we pay this bill.
If you feel like you can help us, please send us a private message. All our info is listed on our page .

11/27/2024

We will be open this holiday weekend starting 11/28 - Monday 12/2 from 11-3!
Wishing everyone and their families a very Happy Thanksgiving! We are go thankful for each and everyone one of our supporters. We would not be able to continue doing this work without you! Even when things get difficult and you just want to give up, we look to all of you and we find the strength to keep fighting so animals everywhere can have a safe secure and loving home that we all deserve! We hope to see you guys over this long holiday weekend !

11/20/2024

It has been a rough week, not going to lie, morale is pretty low here at Charlotte Farms. The township has canceled our approved application due to an inconsistency regarding the lots. We attended court yesterday and the inspector and the prosecutor both tried to recommend to the judge to give us 60 days to vacate all animals from the property….. thankfully the judge found it odd that an application already approved by the zoning board has been canceled the night before the board meeting and the prosecutor and inspector are fighting so hard to shut us down, so he gave us 60 days to figure out the situation with the lot and see if we need to submit a new application. We are still fighting,,, but it kills us that the $15,000+ that we spent already on this application has been squandered by the township and now they want us to reapply and pay the $15,000 again. It cost us $1500 just to feed the animals alone every month and that money could’ve been put towards them… and instead it’s gone now.
We appreciate all the support everyone has given us, especially those who were able to donate whatever they could. It means so much and now we have to ask again for help us so we can be a safe haven and continue doing our important work for our animals.
Our GoFundMe is still live. We would appreciate so much. Whoever can donate or at least help us spread the word so more people can see and we can reach new audiences so they can know about us.

Thank you again to everyone we will hopefully be open the entire next week for Thanksgiving break and I would love to meet each and everyone of you on our farm so you can see firsthand what we do for our animals
❤️.

At Charlotte Farms Animal Sanctuary, our mission is to provid… Charlotte Farms Animal Sanctuary needs your support for Support Charlotte Farms Animal Sanctuary

11/13/2024

So update, we will not be proceeding with tonight’s meeting. We will have to reschedule and meet the rest of their (expensive) requirements in order to get the right to save animals….. it’s beyond me why we can’t get a straight answer from them even on scheduling but it is what it is.
We will update everyone when the next meeting is and of course what they want us to do to move forward.
Thank you again for the support and please hang in there with us! We can’t do this without you!
If anyone wants details please message or call us privately.

11/13/2024

Hello all,
I know we are all waiting for an answer whether or not we will be having our meeting tonight or not. We still don’t have an answer yet.
We submitted an adjournment request for one cycle to figure out the issue they have.
Will will hopefully let everyone know within the hour if we are adjourned or not.
If not I will be there tonight to request in person.
Thank you for the support and your patience!
We appreciate each and every one of you

11/12/2024

🙏🏽GRACE🙏🏽 Big, big thank you to Nicole Stasse-Morici & her beautiful daughters & Ava for sponsoring the cutest little baby goat we have! They have been visiting every chance they have! Grace will have the best life ever and she loves being held and cuddled! Thank you again for helping and supporting our sanctuary! We appreciate you guys so much!

11/10/2024

🌼DAISY🌼 Huge thank you to and her son Segio from for opening their hearts and sponsoring our HUGE female cow. They came right in and said we want to sponsor her, thank you for caring about her and our sanctuary. It means so much to have your support !
Daisy is so lucky to have you guys as her new family, I’m sure she’ll get to sample all your delicious doughnuts and rolls!!!
We thank you from the bottom of our heart - 💓 CFAS

11/08/2024

Just a quick update on our Meeting with the town this Wednesday.
The Town seems to be intent on playing games with us and leeching the money away from our animals.
We received this email yesterday claiming there is an error on our application and therefore the meeting is cancelled and we have to redo a new application and pay all the escrow fees and application fees all over again.
Oh and they get to fine us for being in violation of some ordinance that they can’t either provide us with…..

It’s amazing that the township can’t even read their own tax map.
Our lot is lot 81 and 81 only. There seems to be an internal error on there part because block 882.14 lot 82 does not exist… there is a lot 82.1 but that is the next door neighbor.
I’m not sure what they want from us or why they hate us so much, I wish someone would contact us and let us know. We were really looking forward to working together with the township……. Our lawyer is currently trying to sort this out so we will be updating everyone as soon as we have new information. As of now the meeting may or may not happen.
Feel free to email the mayor, the zoning board or whoever to try and get some answers because we cannot understand their issue.

Side note- we still need hay!! 😭 . $80/bale will help our animals in a big way. Whatever you can donate will be appreciated!

11/07/2024

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Hello all! The day we’ve all been waiting for!
Our zoning board meeting is scheduled for this coming Wednesday, November 13, 2024 at 6:30 PM.
It’s going to be held at the Berkeley Township Building 627 Pinewald Keswick Rd, Bayville, NJ 08721 This is our last effort to try and get the town to approve our farm, so we need as many people as possible to show up and show support for us. We want the township to see that we are wanted and needed here and we will hopefully get an approval this meeting! We want to pack the room with supporters!
Berkeley township , please let’s put this issue to bed and let’s move forward working together to better the town! We are here to stay, and our animals need us, every time we come is costing us and our animals money and resources. Do the right thing!
We are also still halfway to our go fund me goal to pay for all this, please please help support us!
https://gofund.me/73f9b726

11/06/2024

🐴ARTHUR🐴 Thank you & her son Cameron for coming to visit today and adopting our beautiful pony fawn. On her very first visit she came in wanting to help. We are so appreciate of the amazing support and look forward to you coming and visiting you new little boy 🐴❤️! P.S. Arthur prefers to be called Arty !