Santuario de Karuna

01/28/2025

Everyone is enjoying the sunshine today before the storm rolls in!

01/28/2025

Some Karuna Love 🥰

01/27/2025

Yesterday we had our quarterly Santuario de Karuna board meeting and we have some great events and fundraisers planned for 2025!
Mark your calendars 📅

👷‍♀️👷‍♂️2025 Volunteer Days:
Sun Feb 16
Sat Mar 15
Sun Apr 6
Sat May 17
Sun Jun 8
Sat Jul 12
Sun Aug 24
Sat Sep 20
Sun Oct 12
Sat Nov 15
Sun Dec 14

February:
❤️🧁Thurs Feb 13 Valentine’s Day Bake Sale at La Salita Restaurant 12pm to 7pm
Come grab some delicious Vday themed treats including Frosted Sugar Cookies, Choc PB cups, rice crispy treats, banana bread & lots more!

👷‍♂️👷‍♀️Feb 16 Volunteer Day 11am to 3pm

🤓🍪🌯Feb 24 Trivia for a Cause by Geeks Who Drink - Abq at Bow & Arrow Brewing Co. 7pm to 9pm
Santuario de Karuna Quiz for a Cause by Geeks Who Drink
Root 66 Food Truck ABQ 4-8pm
Bake Sale and Pop Up 4pm to 9pm

March:
👷‍♀️👷‍♂️Mar 15 Volunteer Day 11am to 3pm

April:
👷‍♂️👷‍♀️Apr 6 Volunteer Day 10am to 2pm

🌏Apr 13 La Montañita Co-op Earth Day Bake Sale and Pop Up 10am to 4pm

🌏April 13 NM Earth Day Festival at Balloon Fiesta Field Bake Sale and Pop Up 10am to 4pm

🌻Apr 20 Easter/Spring Event/ Potluck at Santuario de Karuna. Held for families with children. 12-3pm

May:
🍪🧁🍫May 10 Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale/Mother's Day Pop Up
Root 66 Food Truck serving food! More TBD
Location & Time TBD

👷‍♀️👷‍♂️May 17 Volunteer Day 10am to 2pm

June:
🐖June 1 NARD

🏳️‍🌈June 7 or 14 Pride Pop up and Bake Sale at Vegos 11-6

👷‍♂️👷‍♀️June 8 Volunteer Day 10am to 2pm

Hope you can join us at some of the events or volunteer days!

01/27/2025

Good Morning from Nahko & Izzy & Dolly!

01/27/2025

Yesterday we had another amazing volunteer, Brent 🙌

This was extremely nerve wracking 😬😳
The very large tree was leaning towards the main chicken coop. All the animals were tucked away safely away from the tree.

See comments for final result 👏

Our Compassionate Community always comes through for us and we are forever grateful 🙏

01/26/2025

I know we say this a lot but we really do have THE BEST Compassion Crew around ❤️
Yesterday, the Escudero family came out for a tour and then volunteered for hours finishing up the cow feeder roof ~ p**p scooping ~ lots more 🙌🙏
Thank you so much for all your help ~ you have an amazing family 🥰

01/26/2025

Moby found the sunshine 🌞

01/25/2025

We miss you sweet shy Alice~Ann 💔 Two years ago today was her gotcha day ❤️

01/24/2025

It is a stay in your pajamas kind of day!

01/24/2025

Good Morning from Isabelle 🥰

01/23/2025

Even in the cold weather our dedicated Compassion Crew showed up to help with chores 🙏 We are very blessed and grateful for our amazing Community ❤️

DM us if you ever want to join us on Thursdays at 10am. Even if to just give the animals some love!

01/23/2025

5 degrees ~ another really cold day 🥶
Weather station at SdK 🙌
Thank you to our long time donor, supporter, Compassion Crew member, popup baker, friend & family ~ Storrie 🥰

Huge thanks to Storrie and her husband Matt for our new weather station at the sanctuary!

No more fake weather ~ we are getting real time, accurate information as it directly relates to our exact location!

Thank you both so much! Matt spent a couple hours setting it up, calibrating, syncing us to Wunderground Weather and setting up the app on my phone 🙏

This is exciting 🙌

01/22/2025

In our conscious and constant attempt to stretch our donor dollars, yesterday the electrical crew of Hackard and Hubbard (H&H & Associates) set out to save thousands of watts of electricity at the sanctuary. Our slogan is "You Will Never See a Crack" 👷‍♀️👷‍♀️

A couple of weeks ago we set up a new heated water station and we blew a breaker. We had an electrician out to trouble shoot the problem and lo and behold, we had overloaded the breaker.

Dave, our electrician, explained the problem and said he would be back to move some unused power around to get us some more amps for this area.

Dave taught us how to determine the amount of amps being used by a particular item.

We learned that if you divide the number of watts by the number of volts you will arrive at the amps it takes to power a particular item.

We became obsessed and empowered to reduce our wattage being used!

Tractor supply sells heated, submersible water tank heaters here locally. This is what we have used for years. Problem is they are 1500 watts per heater. We have been using 6000 watts to heat our 4 larger tanks!

After doing some research, we found that one of our vendors sells submersible tank heaters in various watts that also will shut off when temps rise.

We determined the number of gallons in each tank, our zone and purchased new heater’s appropriate for each tank.

Thanks to H&H & Associates, we were able to conserve 3000 watts!

So long story short ~ we are on a mission to further conserve electricity at the sanctuary and reduce our footprint on the planet 🌏

The small blue & green water bowls that now all the pigs & chickens & turkeys & gilda have only use 0.5 watts!

01/22/2025

Rocky, our 3 legged pitbull is loving his new shirt & bed donated by Simply Diego's & their wonderful customers! The shirt is perfect for him because it has no sleeves so doesn't hang down where his front leg is missing 🙏🥰
Keeping him nice & warm in this cold weather 🙌

01/22/2025

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Santuario de Karuna is a registered 501(c)(3). We are a grassroots, humane education, vegan farmed animal sanctuary in New Mexico focusing on compassionate living.