You Can Now Invite Rescued Farm Animals to Your Zoom Meeting
The sanctuary is offering a range of online experiences, from corporate meeting cameos to virtual private tours.
Photo: Sweet Farm
What better way to cheer people up during lockdown than inviting a rescue goat to an online zoom meeting?
That’s exactly what Sweet Farm animal sanctuary is doing through their newly launched program “Goat 2 Meeting”, which allows schools, startups, and businesses to virtually interact with some of its animal residents - including Paco the Llama, Nibblets the Goat, and Gizo the Cow.
“We had to shut our doors during the COVID-19 quarantine, which has prevented us from generating any of our normal revenue and our donations are down,” says farm co-founder Anna Sweet. “So we decided to bring the farm to the community virtually through our Goat 2 Meeting program.”
The sanctuary is offering a range of online experiences, from corporate meeting cameos to virtual private tours, to help bring a smile to peoples’ faces during this tough time. Those interested in scheduling a Goat 2 Meeting can do so by making a donation between $65-$100 depending on the meeting type.
Sweet farm, based in Half Moon Bay, is home to over 150 rescued farm animals. The nonprofit also address the global impacts of factory farming through an agriculture education program, on plant-based living, and a technology program, which supports start-ups working to make our food system more compassionate and sustainable.
“Our llama went to an engineering meeting at a start-up, our cow is going to a marketing meeting at a Fortune 500 company. It’s been so fun,” she says. “We’ve also had people start booking them for happy hour video calls with their friends.”
“It’s been a huge hit so far,” she says. “We have corporate meeting bookings all week, and we are using that revenue to provide free online tours for schools.”
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