Grayrock Farm Sanctuary

08/15/2025

We are moving out of the farm this weekend. We ended our last day at the farm with Raven Rock Summer Programs. We enjoyed hosting their summer program and many children told me this is their favorite place and enjoy their summer here. You can help Raven Rock find a temporary and permanent location. Please visit their website to find out more. They need your help finding a venue to keep offering summers of education and fun!

08/08/2025

Blue needs an xxl dog bed. If anyone in the area has an old one, message us. Thank You

UPDATE: I have one on the way for him now.

08/07/2025

LILLY went back to her family’s farm home in PA. She is doing great and was so happy to see her family when they picked her up, that she walked easily into her crate and was lifted into the car. (With help from snacks). Lilly will spend her days grazing on grass, snuggled up on her hay and with her family that loves her.

08/02/2025

Jay and Fred’s first couple days with us❤️

07/31/2025

Tuffy Update:

Tuffy's new home is a beautiful farm in Hope, NJ that has pastures of green grass to graze and trees for him to rest under with other horses. He has a special young person that rides him for therapy once a week and he loves her.
We are thankful to Matt, our farrier, for giving Tuffy a forever home.

07/25/2025

Raven Rock Summer Programs is looking for a new venue for next summer 2026! If anyone knows of a farm or farm sanctuary that can be a host for this fantastic program, please contact Raven Rock to discuss. https://www.ravenrocksummerprograms.com/
ALSO, Raven Rock is looking for a permanent home. See the shared post below. Please share and give if you can. THANK YOU!

Help Save & Grow Our Summer Youth Programs – A life changing program… Raven Tunnermann-Gyecsek needs your support for Help Raven Rock Secure a Permanent Home

07/22/2025

BEN'S NEW HOME:

It was very difficult for us to move Ben to a new home.
He was only 3 weeks old when he arrived at the sanctuary and he stayed in the house with for 7 weeks while on a bottle every 4 hours. He will always be my baby Ben.

Ben spends his days grazing with other rescued sheep like himself at a scenic sheep rescue farm in Somerset County, NJ.

There are 2 miniature donkeys that keep Ben and the sheep herd safe. (pictured below)

Ben recently helped another rescue sheep named Dandelion that just joined the herd. She and Ben immediately became fast friends (pictured in center) and stay together.

Sheep are herd animals and now Ben has a herd family of his own and is doing great! We raised a good boy.

The couple that adopted Ben are warm, caring and loving people and we are so thankful that we found them.

07/19/2025

ERNIE AND BERT:

Ernie and Bert were moved to a non profit ministry farm in Holland Township, NJ. They have the run of the farm and adapted to their new home immediately!
They graze by horses, chickens, turkeys, goats and a cow.
The family is wonderful, and they were so excited to give them a loving home.
If you would like to donate or sponsor them to help with their care, the link is below. When donating, please type Ernie and Bert in the notes.
https://www.r-hub.org/the-farm

07/17/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT:
We would like to thank every one of you that visited, donated, helped out, attended our festivals and became our friends through out the past 7 years. We sold the farm and will be closing mid August. With family changes and costs increasing, it was the best decision for us as a family as well as for our animals. As we said goodbye to Tuffy, Fred, Ben, Ernie and Bert and Lilly, we remember why we started Grayrock Farm Sanctuary. We wanted to give farm animals the soft landing they needed and love along with rehabilitation and a good home. We accomplished so much in the past 7 years. All of the animals have been placed in great homes. Although Fred’s stay in his new home was short, he got to experience goat life with a herd of his own.
Gracie and Freckles along with Blue will remain here in their home with the new owners and we will help them transition to farm life with horses, a pig, chickens and ducks. We ask that the new owner’s privacy is respected as they get settled into their new life here at Grayrock Farm. Their farm will be private, and they may continue festivals and will have chicken/duck egg sales. Thank you all….Hugs

06/29/2025

Creating a sanctuary for animals who need it also come with the gross reality of shorter life expectancies due to breeding. We’ve come across meat chickens that weren’t meant to live past 6 weeks, sheep bred for their meat as lambs, and bottle baby goats that are 3 times the size of your average goat. And the only thing you can possibly do is to love them as much as you can and make them as comfortable as you can for as long as you have them. Fred and Jay were little babes when they came to us in 2020. When we knew nothing about goats but took a chance on this unique pair. And they have brought so so much love and joy to us as a family. They were our kids.

There has been so much loss these past few months, and yesterday, just as Fred was getting used to his new home and loving his new family, his fate followed in his brother’s. We got a call saying he was laying down in pain, unable to get up or be comfortable due to kidney stones. My mom jumped in the truck to drive to him so she could be with him during his last moments. It was a very difficult day yesterday. We are so thankful to Jenn and her husband for taking Fred and caring for him the past couple months.

As heartbroken as I am, Fred gets to be with his brother again. And even though we’ve cried more times over these animals in the past year than we have ever, I’m reminded to never take these days for granted because it may not look the same tomorrow.

05/24/2025

Grass grazing and napping

05/20/2025

Gracie wants everyone to have a beautiful day!