Flora & Fauna Farm and Wildlife Rehabilitation

06/10/2026

Just got home from a 3 hour stakeout in Belchertown trying to reunite an adorable but feisty baby turkey with its mom. I sat for about 30 minutes before thinking to myself "this is so dumb, its not gonna work", so i plugged *home* into GPS and grabbed the carrier.

Something told me to NOT go the way GPS told me, so i went the opposite direction, and as I rounded the corner, i got a view of a new angle of this field and THERE SHE WAS - headed straight for the direction i was just parked!!. Guess I'm just too impatient hahah.

2+ hours later of constant back and forth calling between mom and baby, and mom had clearly come as close to my giant truck as she was gonna go. She was just taunting me from like, a quarter football field away, so I decided to open up the crate and baby followed her calls and did all the trekking since mom was having NO part of ME.

I tried to get good footage, but the grass was so long and mom stayed so far away that you cant even see the baby in the video, sadly. Baby made it to mom and there were no hugs or kisses or jumping for joy, they just acted like nothing ever happened haha. So anti climatic.

Anyways, i cant believe that worked. Im so happy! I honestly can't afford the amount of insects i would need to properly care for this guy, so I'm thrilled it worked LOL. He pretty much wiped me out of mealworms in 2 days. Eek.

Photo of baby in the comments ;)

Thanks to the person who donated to Flora & Fauna Farm and Wildlife Rehabilitation via Venmo for helping a sad bunny, and then sending me a dunkin gift card right before i left to do this. 🥹 That iced latte kept me ALIVE and awake in my hot truck while i waited for this whole reuniting ordeal to unfold.

06/09/2026

2 days in a row of hilariously failed attempts to take video of some of the work we've been up to.

Yesterday another rehabber, Erin of creature comforts wildlife rehab came over to help put the finishing decorative genius on our opossum pre-release enclosure, and then we added 9 cutie pie gremlin opossums to it. Go figure, we've both been too busy to charge our phones to take a video...

Then today i got to release 6 bunnies that came in absolutely emaciated... i thought i was taking a video the whole time and they hopped away in the cutest way ever... i swear. Instead i got two photos, one of me opening the cage, and one of the cool tree they hid under after release. Lol.

Guys, i need a social media person, im a mess.

05/25/2026

These little kiddos are sure enjoying their treats today! This is the Lashco Trio, coco, our little boy recovering from a broken arm(no name yet...), and Matilda.. we let the finders name these guys if they want to, and if not, Tik Tok gets to name them lol.

Every day, i go out and trim a variety of tree branches - oak, willow, pine, maple, hemlock, etc and offer it to them to play and chew on.. every tree species bark and parts has different medicinal and nutritional qualities, and i let these guys decide what they need.. it also helps them keep their teeth trimmed. Maple "helicopters" are also a wild food fave, so they get a nice handful of these every day on top of their regular blocks and squirrel "salad".. they eat better than most humans i know. No junk for these babes !! I'll continue to forage and provide them with wild foods until the day of their release so they're able to identify and find the stuff they'd normally eat in the wild..

Today, a couple of them are headed to pre release to join our crew of 4 outside (Ada, Flo, Kaia, and Harmonica). As long as the weather isn't rude.

Busy busy busy weekend!

05/25/2026

Opossum meal prep :)

05/16/2026

Our evening walk around the farm so these little babes can start to experience the outdoors. They've got a little more time before they go outside permanently, first to a pre-release enclosure, then back to the wild where they belong...

Momma would be doing the same, walking around everywhere with these little gremlins on her back, so i'm just trying to provide them with as close to that experience as i can provide without them starting to like me (lol, they do NOT, I assure you.).

Anyways, enjoy the cuteness:)

05/13/2026

*Wishlist Wednesday*

It's been non- stop, around the clock over here with all the babies! We just got a big order of formula and blocks in, so everyone will be well fed :) Enjoy this video of our group of 9 baby opossums eating dinner! I assure you, within an hour, they had this bowl licked so clean you'd think it was washed, rinsed, and sanitized🤣

This week, we're running low on puppy pads, and could really use some squirrel boxes and hammocks/toys from our wishlist. Any cash or venmo donations this week will be going towards these things and paying off our account at the vet's office ;).

Note: there is NOTHING on the wishlist that we won't use immediately ;) Link in comments.

Venmo:

05/08/2026

Baby animal food prep!

Total current patient count:
11 baby squirrels
2 adult squirrels in pre release
1 baby sparrow
9 baby opossums
1 baby painted turtle
1 bunny

That's all. Enjoy :)

05/07/2026

Please just leave the bunnies alone!:)

A note about what we do here: we specialize in squirrels and non- native birds for now. We cannot take ANY more bunnies, at capacity with opossums this year(the 9 we currently have are all we can handle, especially once they move outdoors), and squirrels we'll consider ONLY on a case by case basis until our formula gets restocked. We don't take bats or raccoons at this time(not yet vaccinated for rabies, nor have the funds or space to care for them). I know it sounds like a whole lotta "NO", lol, but my board has already threatened to confiscate my phone if i say yes to another squirrel. hahah.

Basically, I do this voluntarily while working full time. I rely on donations as ALL formula, supplies and vet bills are paid for by ME unless i have donation funds available(we have $129 total available right now), and formula this time of year is SCARCE. Can't take in babies that I can't feed properly, and i refuse to do things half-assed for these little gremlin cuties that have already been through enough

This!

05/05/2026

Some of our "teenager" patients enjoying their new cage together, along with some fresh maple helicopters, a squirrel FAVE. Getting close to moving outside to pre-release! This is Kaia, Harmonica, Flo, and Ada.

Speaking of squirrel fave, if you're super local, have an abundance of maple helicopter clumps falling in your yard, AND want to bring them here to South Hadley(lol), we'll happily take em'! Maybe a fun activity for the kids? Fill a bucket with maple helicopters for baby rehab squirrels?! Hahaha. I'm actually so serious. I'll be asking for acorns and black walnuts in the fall too I'm sure LOL