Membership
Storytellers’ Sanctuary
Stories are free. Membership funds the animals.
This is a place where animals arrive with history on their skin, and leave with a future in their bones. Every animal who finds refuge here has a past—a journey that brought them to our gates. We share those journeys not just to inspire, but to ignite change.
Free readers are how these stories travel. Paid members are how they stay open. No guilt. No pressure. Just doors.
What You’ll Find Inside
Ambassador Animal Tales
Deeply moving, quietly funny stories about residents: who they are, what they survived, what they teach us.
Sanctuary News Laughs
Witty, satirical dispatches. Pig-powered political dramas, goat-led investigative exposés, chicken cryptocurrency scandals.
Personal & Philosophical Reflections
Intimate entries about sanctuary life, cruelty-free ethics, compassionate living, the deeper purpose behind the work.
Fantastical Adventures
Steampunk escapades featuring Inspector General Gaspar and his loyal companion, Asmodian.
Recent Dispatches
Zipper the Auction Pig
Zipper's journey from auction to Poppy's Place at Steampunk Farms will be the focus of our first set of educational materials! Developed for school-aged children, these coloring sheets, games, and…
March 21, 2018
Sneak Peek!
The first draft of our first educational coloring page is underway! Here's a sneak peek! Become a patron for just $1/month to see progress as it happens!
March 23, 2018
Meet Zipper
This first coloring page is a simple introduction to Zipper. Pages that follow will tell her rescue and recovery story, teach additional pig facts and vocabulary, and engage children and families…
March 23, 2018
The Patron Wall
Paid members are recognized here by first name.
46 Sanctuary Supporters strong
Tools for Storytellers
What your membership unlocks — beyond the stories themselves.
📚 Sanctuary Supporter
- ✓General Support
- ✓Patron Wall Recognition
🎩 Sanctuary Sustainer
- ✓General Support
- ✓Patron Wall Recognition
- ✓Surprise Drops
📖 Sanctuary Storyteller
- ✓General Support
- ✓Patron Wall Recognition
- ✓Surprise Drops
- ✓Monthly Live Storytelling Q&A
📜 Sanctuary Stewards
- ✓General Support
- ✓Patron Wall Recognition
- ✓Surprise Drops
- ✓Monthly Live Storytelling Q&A
- ✓Private Community — Stewards' Common Room
🔮 Sanctuary Circle
- ✓General Support
- ✓Patron Wall Recognition
- ✓Surprise Drops
- ✓Monthly Live Storytelling Q&A
- ✓Monthly Office Hours with Krystal
- ✓Circle Dispatch
- ✓Annual State of the Sanctuary Briefing
- ✓Seat Cap: 25
Why Stories Matter
Patreon lets us do storytelling the way it was always meant to be—personal, purposeful, and completely unfiltered. The animals we serve are often the ones no one else will embrace: complex cases, invisible livestock, the ones shelters quietly push aside.
Stories help people care. Caring turns into support. Support becomes hay, bedding, transport, repairs, and vet care. That’s the loop. That’s why this works.
One prong is enough.
There are no salaries at Steampunk Farms—100% Volunteer Driven from the Board Room to the Hay Shed—Your Support Goes to the Animals.
Not ready to join? There are other ways to support the sanctuary.