In October 2015, the Orange County, Virginia Sheriff’s Department raided Peaceable Farm in Somerset. What they found there was heartbreaking. Over one hundred severely neglected horses, donkeys, and mules were starving. Scrambling to save them, the Sheriff’s Department reached out to Virginia’s horse rescue community for help. Hope’s Legacy Equine Rescue immediately took in twenty nine of these animals, four of which were already dying. The rest, responding to nutrition, proper care, and love, survived. Over time, they began to thrive.
In 2016, after a raid in Nottaway County resulted in another forty seized animals, Hope’s Legacy provided a home to nineteen of them.
Over the years, Hope’s Legacy Equine Rescue has taken in over four hundred horses, ponies, donkeys, and mules.
In 2017, in order to protect and care for even more animals, Hope’s Legacy acquired one hundred and seventy two acres in Albemarle County, and is raising money to fence the land and raise a barn.
We are proud to support this life-saving organization and its dedicated, caring volunteers.
You can contribute to Hope’s Legacy Equine Rescue by clicking here:
americanshelterfund.org 