She's getting a belly rub, my big girl.

Seven hundred and eighteen pounds, this girl.

Hogs & Kisses is a 501 (c)(3) micro farm sanctuary.

We provide lifelong care to rescued farm animals.

I guess I'm going on about my 15th year of being vegan.

And so when you're a vegan, you have this romantic notion of saving animals.

We think of it a lot in terms of our pets, our companion animals; cats, dogs loved, beloved.

They become our family.

But very rarely do people think of a hog that way.

I mean, rarely, turkeys as well, right?

So the fact that they can be loved on that kind of level, cared for on that kind of level, is really truly what Hogs & Kisses is about.

We have five rabbits, two turkeys and seven hogs.

We really wanted to focus on farm pigs or hogs because they really rarely ever get saved.

Rubia Grace Dolly Pachanga Fernando Coco and Tito.

They can come to you in multiple, multiple ways.

Sometimes in rescue, literally with hogs, they jump off their truck, right, to save their own lives.

They're called truck jumpers.

There are times I just get straight emails and calls for people who are saying, “I've had this pig,” or unfortunately, a pig's human parent has passed away or what have you, and they need to find a home.

So we have Noisette and Canal, and they were at a farm where the breeding got outta han And we have three boys, Elvis, Peter and Beau.

They live side by side.

We tried to create everyone into one colony.

However, there was so much fighting.

[Crunch, crunch, crunch] We wanted to go with a bit more manageable species, and so we ended up adding turkeys.

Two males.

Angel, who is all pure white, is named after my father-in-law.

And then the volunteers named our bronze boy, Seitan.

So in the plant-based vegan world, a faux meat, is called, seitan.

The Hogs & Kisses family is comprised of a small but scrappy board, an assistant manager.

And then after that we have a full team of volunteers.

Typical day at Hogs & Kisses is we begin feeding at about seven thirty in the morning.

So all of this happens for for bare minimum of about two hours each morning, and then that repeats again later in the afternoon for dinner service.

[Pigs grunting] In between that time, all kinds of chores can occur.

Then it's kind of sitting down and doing administrative stuff.

We knew in terms of raising the money, we needed to have some other way other than just soliciting donations.

We built a B&B here on property.

There's running the business to keep the nonprofit going.

For me, every day I feel like my purpose is full, and it is so beautiful, the community that gets created by doing this kind of work.

It is so rewarding.

I mean like beautiful.