Briscot Farm and Sanctuary

08/30/2026

🐷🍂 FALL VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY — EVENING PIGGY CREW! 🍂🐷

Do you have a little extra time in the evenings and happen to love pigs… or maybe you’ve always wanted the chance to get to know them?

We may have the perfect volunteer opportunity for you. ❤️

For fall and early winter, we’re looking for an adult volunteer, 18+, who could help us with our evening piggy routine, preferably sometime between 4–6 PM.

🐷 Evening feeding
🧹 Scooping and tidying habitats
🥕 Treats and cookies
🪮 Maybe a good brushing
❤️ And most importantly — spending a little time loving on the piggies.

Because around here, being the Evening Piggy Feeder & Scooper doesn’t mean walking in, cleaning a pen and leaving.

Our animals live in a sanctuary, and enrichment and companionship are part of their care. Sit with them for a few minutes. Learn their personalities. Give somebody a scratch behind the ears. Hand out a few cookies. Brush a pig who decides you’re their new best friend.

We want volunteering here to be as fun and enriching for YOU as it is for the animals.

This position would be during hours when visitors may still be on the farm, so we’re looking for someone who is comfortable working while the public is present and doesn’t mind the occasional curious little person asking what you’re doing. 😊

And as the evenings get colder…

☕ Cocoa and hot cider are on us.

Our volunteers are always welcome to help themselves to the drinks and snacks we have available. We want this to be a place where you enjoy spending your time, too.

You don’t need to be a pig expert. We’re happy to teach you. What we’re really looking for is a dependable adult who wants to learn, isn’t afraid of a little dirt, and has some genuine love and kindness to give.

If your fall evenings could use a few piggy snorts, muddy boots, warm cocoa and some pretty wonderful company, send us a message. 🐷❤️

Those interested please pm us!
Come be part of the farm family this fall. 🍂

08/28/2026

Did you know Washington State has laws specifically designed to protect farms and agritourism operations?

For those of us who open our farms to the public, there are two important sections of Washington law worth knowing:

🌾 RCW 4.24.830–4.24.835 — Agritourism Liability Protection

Washington law recognizes that visiting a working farm comes with certain inherent risks. These can include uneven ground, farm structures, vegetation, equipment, and the unpredictable behavior of animals.

The law specifically recognizes agritourism activities such as farm tours, educational programs, petting zoos, harvest-your-own operations, farm festivals, hayrides, barn events, horseback riding, and other agricultural experiences.

Under RCW 4.24.832, qualifying agritourism professionals are generally protected from liability for injuries or damages resulting exclusively from the inherent risks of agritourism.

There are important exceptions, including gross negligence, knowingly failing to disclose dangerous conditions, or failing to follow the requirements of the statute.

One especially important requirement is RCW 4.24.835, which requires qualifying agritourism operations to post Washington’s statutory warning notice at the entrance and activity areas in the manner required by law.

🚜 RCW 7.48.300–7.48.315 — Washington’s Right to Farm Law

Washington also protects legitimate agricultural operations from certain nuisance lawsuits.

The law recognizes that normal agricultural activities — the sights, sounds, smells, animals, equipment and daily realities that come with farming — should not automatically become grounds for shutting down a farm simply because surrounding land uses or neighbors change.

And under RCW 7.48.315, farmers who successfully defend certain nuisance lawsuits may even be able to recover reasonable costs and attorney fees.

These laws do not give farmers permission to be careless. We still have a responsibility to operate safely, care for our animals, maintain our property and protect our guests.

But they do recognize something important:

A farm is still a farm.

Animals behave like animals. Ground can be uneven. Tractors make noise. Manure has a smell. Agriculture is real, living and sometimes unpredictable — and Washington law recognizes that reality.

For anyone operating a farm, sanctuary, petting farm, U-pick, educational farm or other agritourism operation, these RCWs are absolutely worth reading:

RCW 4.24.830–4.24.835
RCW 7.48.300–7.48.315

Knowing the law helps us protect both our visitors and the farms we are working so hard to preserve. 🌾🐴

08/27/2026

Have you heard about the stunning U-Pick self guided flower farm right next door?
Open sun up to sun down 💜

Snapdragons, Zinnias, Dahlias, Statice, and Cinnamon and Lemon Basil. Bright colors and delicious scent! 💐

08/27/2026

Laura and Gayle as babies ❤️
The sweetest little lawn mowers that ever did mow. They are 7 this year. They are 1/2 sisters who came from the same farm. Same father different Mothers.

Personalities:
Laura hates hugs while Gayle steals the spotlight.

08/26/2026

💗 In Honor of Dolly Parton 💗
This week, the music of Dolly Parton will be playing across the farm.
Dolly gave the world so much more than beautiful music. She gave with an enormous heart—and that heart extended to animals, too.
Throughout her life, Dolly spoke openly about her love for animals and used her name and success to help them. Her Doggy Parton pet line helped support an animal rescue providing a home to displaced animals. When an abandoned dog was found after one of her performances overseas, Dolly offered to give her a home if her family couldn’t be found. And through Dollywood’s longtime partnership with the American Eagle Foundation, non-releasable bald eagles were given sanctuary while generations of visitors learned about protecting these magnificent animals.
She understood something that those of us in rescue understand very deeply:
A life doesn’t have to be human to be precious.
So this week at Briscot Farm & Sanctuary, while we feed the horses, scratch the pigs, love on the donkeys and care for all the souls who have found their way here, you’ll hear Dolly’s voice drifting through the farm.
It seems like a fitting way for a sanctuary to honor a woman who spent so much of her life putting kindness into the world.
May we all leave behind a little more love than we found.
Rest beautifully, Dolly. 🤍
We’ll keep doing our little part down here—loving the ones who need us.
🐴🐷🐐🫏🤍

08/24/2026

Happiest of Sundays! We are going to end the week with 2 minutes of puppy bowling with Hammy.
Thank you so much for another record week here at the sanctuary!!🐶 🐷

08/23/2026

I’m not one for public shaming.

But I’ll admit—today I had a moment where I thought, if I had a Wall of Shame, someone would be going on it. 😂

I even briefly considered posting the video of the incident.

But I won’t.

Instead, I’m going to say something that I think is much more important:

This is a very special place.

Being here is a privilege. It is not a right.

No one is entitled to this place—not our visitors, not our volunteers, and honestly, not even me simply because my name is on the paperwork.

I consider myself a steward of this little piece of land, its history, its animals, and everything we are building here together.

And part of that responsibility is protecting what makes it special.

We have a handful of very simple, very reasonable rules. They exist to protect our animals, our property, our guests, and the peaceful environment we work so hard to maintain.

So when one of us asks you to follow a rule, please understand that we aren’t trying to ruin anyone’s fun or make anyone feel unwelcome.

We are protecting something precious.

And we will continue to do that—even when it means having an uncomfortable conversation or asking someone to change their behavior.

To the overwhelming majority of you who visit, respect the animals, respect the farm, follow the rules, and help us preserve the magic of this place:

Thank you.

You are the reason this works. ❤️
Thank you ☺️

08/22/2026

Today, I had one of those moments I think I’ll carry with me forever. ❤️

My little adopted niece, Kateri, was helping welcome some new visitors to the farm.

I said to her, “Look, Kateri—these are new friends. They just found the farm today.”

She looked at them and, without missing a beat, asked:

“Are you gonna grow up here too?”

And my heart just about leapt out of my chest.

Because in her little world, that’s what happens here.

You don’t just visit the farm.

You grow up here.

You come back. You make memories. You watch the animals grow older. The animals watch you grow older. You make friends. You become part of something. And somewhere along the way, this little farm becomes a piece of your childhood and your story.

In that tiny, completely innocent question, Kateri reminded me exactly why I’m here.

This is where I belong.
This is where I’m supposed to be.

And if we’re fortunate enough to do this right, there will be children who grow up here—and someday bring their own children back to the farm that helped raise them.

So to all of our old friends, and all the new friends who are just finding us:

Yes. We hope you grow up here too. ❤️🌾🐴

— Farmer Grace

08/21/2026

🤍 What Makes This Sanctuary Different?

Briscot Farm & Sanctuary was never meant to be simply a place where animals are rescued.

It is a sanctuary for animals—and for people.

It is a place where families can slow down, children can connect with animals and the land, and people from every walk of life can come together over something beautifully simple: our shared love for animals.

Here in the Kent Valley, our eight acres represent something that is becoming increasingly rare—a piece of farmland preserved not just for today, but hopefully for generations to come.

And we dream bigger than these 8 acres.

With your help, we hope one day to expand beyond our borders, protecting more land, providing sanctuary to more animals, and creating more spaces where wildlife, farm animals, families, and community can continue to have a place in a world that seems to be shrinking around them.

We believe places like this are worth protecting.

Privately owned. Publicly supported. Community powered.

This may be our farm on paper, but in every way that matters, this is our community’s farm.

Every animal we save.
Every child who falls in love with an animal.
Every fence repaired, habitat improved, and life given another chance happens because people choose to stand beside us.

So today, we simply wanted to acknowledge you.

Thank you for growing with us. Thank you for believing in what we’re building. And thank you for helping preserve this little piece of the Kent Valley where animals and people can still find sanctuary.

There is no us without you.

Let’s keep growing. Let’s keep protecting. And let’s keep doing good—together. 🤍🌾🐴

— Briscot Farm & Sanctuary

(Picture, Pat and Chloe our first rescues a decade ago, they are still here)

08/21/2026

🎉 UPDATE: Winner is Bird Heeg with their submission of f “Sur Prize” Congratulations Bird! You now have a little squab of your very own naming to visit here at the sanctuary 💜
Thank you for loving the animals and participating in our contest!

Okay you guys! The contest will conclude this Sunday at 5pm! If you have not cast your vote, please do so!
We have so many great names here ❤️

Also!! Big news coming! Please stay close while we await details on a very important new resident.