Sweet BombDiggity Farms Farm Animal Rescue & Sanctuary

501(c)(3) farm animal rescue

There’s room in the barn.

Sweet BombDiggity Farms Rescue & Sanctuary gives farm animals a safe place to heal, thrive, and restore their faith in humanity. We’re Jules and Lane Morris, and this is the part of our farm that belongs to them.

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Sweet BombDiggity Farms Rescue & Sanctuary logo: a red barn with its doors swung open.
Where
Norris Lake, East Tennessee
Since
2024
Residents
36 by name, plus the flock
Tax status
501(c)(3) · EIN 41-2482806

What we do

Rescue. Rehabilitate. Teach.

Three jobs, every single day, on a farm that runs on hay, patience, and a lot of good people.

Rescue

A safe landing

We take in farm animals who need somewhere to go: horses, mini donkeys, pigs, goats, geese, chickens, and ducks. Every animal who comes here gets a name, a pasture, and a plan for their care.

Rehabilitate

Care that takes time

Hoof trims, careful feeding, vet visits, and patience. Whoever needs a little more gets it, for as long as they need it.

Teach

Pass it on

Our ambassador animals help us teach visitors about their sweet personalities and unique needs, and we share what we learn about feeding, hoof care, and predator-proofing through our videos, our volunteer program, and farm visits by appointment.

Ambassadors

Some come and stay.

They stay with us at the sanctuary and help us teach everyone they meet about their sweet personalities and unique needs.

Adoption

Some find their way home.

Others come through the rescue and sanctuary and find their way to a new loving home that will give them all the goodness.

Ask about adopting

The residents

Barn roll call

Some are ambassadors who live here for good, some are on their way to new homes, and everybody gets a name. Here’s who you’ll be helping.

Horses2 residentsBoth came to us through a kill pen
  • Rosie
  • Amelia
  • A chestnut horse and a white-and-brown paint horse grazing side by side in fly masks by a board fence
  • Close-up of a white-and-brown paint horse resting her nose over a gate
  • A chestnut horse with a white blaze resting her chin on a weathered board fence
  • A white-and-brown paint horse walking toward the camera across a winter pasture
  • A chestnut horse leaning over a red pipe gate on a sunny day
Rosie and Amelia, out on pasture
Mini donkeys8 residents
  • Reba
  • Minnie Pearl
  • Hank
  • Loretta
  • Charlie
  • Rainey
  • Smith
  • Wesson
  • Four mini donkeys peeking out side by side from a red run-in shed with a green metal roof
  • A man in a Tennessee cap sitting cross-legged in the pasture with a cat in his lap while two mini donkeys lean in close
  • A spotted mini donkey wearing a garland of silk flowers, grazing in a green field
  • A smiling little girl getting a nuzzle from two mini donkeys
  • A group of five visitors smiling by the fence line with a brown-and-white mini donkey in front
  • Jules resting her cheek on a spotted mini donkey’s head in a hug
The mini donkeys, at home and meeting visitors
Kune Kune pigs5 residents
  • Bubbles
  • Blossom
  • Buttons
  • Buttercup
  • Bocephus
  • A ginger Kune Kune pig with its nose in a pile of watermelon rinds on the grass
  • A muddy Kune Kune pig walking toward the camera while three more graze along the fence line
  • Close-up of a ginger-and-black Kune Kune pig with shaggy ears, nose-down in the clover
  • Four Kune Kune pigs trotting up a green hillside toward the camera
  • Four Kune Kune pigs crowded around a tipped-up wheelbarrow in their paddock
  • A ginger Kune Kune pig with black spots grazing on a winter pasture beside a small red shelter
The Kune Kune crew, out on pasture (and into the watermelon)
Goats12 residentsMostly mini Nubians, plus a couple of Alpines
  • Caroline
  • Miles
  • Henry
  • Rosemary
  • Max
  • Biscuit
  • Charlie Brown
  • Linus
  • Schroeder
  • Lucy
  • Sally
  • Violet
  • A white mama goat watching over two brown-and-white kids wearing knit sweaters, one with pink flowers and one with little sheep, in a bedded stall
  • A floppy-eared Nubian goat looking straight at the camera in the barn aisle, with more goats behind her
  • A young boy and a woman feeding a group of goats from their hands on the lawn, with a red coop behind them
  • A woman and three young children meeting two goats along the fence line
The goats, meeting their public (sweaters optional)
Sebastopol geese3 residents
  • Gigi
  • Alexander
  • Lillibet
  • A white Sebastopol goose with curly feathers stepping right up to the camera, with more geese behind
A Sebastopol goose, up close
Chickens & ducksThe flock

Our ducks are discarded Easter ducks, bought as ducklings for the holiday and let go once they grew up. They’re safe here now. The flock’s roll call is coming soon.

  • Jules hugging a red hen in the coop, in front of a wall of big red flowers
  • Jules smiling as she hand-feeds the hens along the roost in the flower-papered coop
  • Close-up of a red-brown chicken with a bright red comb, with more of the flock behind
  • Three hens eating from a dish in their straw-bedded run in front of the coop
  • Fluffy black and gray chickens pecking at a red dish of sprouted grass and a blueberry treat
  • A pale buff hen standing in the straw and looking at the camera, with the coop ramp behind her
  • A fluffy black-and-white speckled bantam chicken with frizzled feathers
  • A brown speckled duck standing in the grass next to a bin of treats
The flock: chickens of every feather, a hen who loves a hug, and a duck supervising the treat bin
Dogs & catsFarm family
  • Dukecoonhound
  • Skunk
  • Daisy
  • Sweetpea
  • Mama Kitty
  • Sandy

We focus on farm animals and leave dog and cat rescue to the groups who do it so well. But the dogs and cats who have found their way to our farm call it home for their whole lives, and they’re a very special part of our farm family. Our farm kitties and farm-cat fails live in their cat-dominium, protected and flourishing.

  • Duke, a red hound with a light collar, sound asleep in the sunny grass along a wire fence
  • Daisy, a brown-and-black striped tabby, lounging in the sun on a leafy green cat tree by a window
  • A black-and-white cat curled up asleep on a cushion in front of a rooster poster
  • Sweet Pea, a black-and-white cat, reaching one white paw down from a desk covered in papers
  • Sandy, a yellow tiger-striped kitten, and a young Skunk on a wooden fence rail
  • Four tabby kittens snuggled together on a rug
Duke, off duty, and the cat crew: Daisy on her tree, Sweet Pea at the desk, Sandy with a young Skunk

From the pasture

Rosie and Amelia, out of the kill pen

Rosie and Amelia came to us through a kill pen, the holding lot where horses wait to be shipped to slaughter. Imagine how scared they must have been. We worked with another rescue to bring them home. Sponsoring a horse keeps them fed, trimmed and cared for.

From the barn

Lillibet and the bucket-handle splint

Lillibet is one of our three Sebastopol geese. When she slipped a tendon in her hock, our vet team built her a splint out of a hardware-store bucket handle, and she went on cage rest to let it heal. The care she got made all the difference, and it’s the kind of everyday care our sponsors make possible.

Rainey, a gray-and-white spotted mini donkey, grazing in tall grass with goats behind her

From the barn

Rainey, our senior donkey

When Rainey came to live with us, we didn’t realize how old she was. Then she choked, and she needed emergency vet care. Moments like that one are exactly what the Dessie Fund is for.

Duke, a Redbone Coonhound, asleep in the sunny grass along a wire fence

From the farm family

Duke, back to health

Duke is a Redbone Coonhound who came to us underweight and with heartworms. We nurtured him back to health, and he’s home with us for good.

Skunk, a black-and-white tuxedo cat with three legs, sitting on the floor and licking his lips

From the cat-dominium

Skunk, on three legs

Someone shot Skunk, one of our farm cats, and he barely made it back to the barn. He had to have a leg amputated. Surgery like his is exactly what the Dessie Fund is for. Today he’s flourishing right alongside the rest of the cat crew.

Sweet Pea, a black-and-white cat, reaching one white paw down from a desk

From the cat-dominium

Sweet Pea, saved from the roadside

Sweet Pea was rescued from the side of the road, sick and near death. Now Sweet Pea is safe at home in the cat-dominium with the rest of the crew.

Ask the barn

Ask a resident anything.

Pick somebody and ask what they eat, what they cost, or what they think of you. They answer for themselves. The attitude is theirs; the facts underneath come from our barn and our vets, plus extension services and breed societies.

The whole barn

Everybody

We can tell you how we do things here and where we learned it. For your own animals, ask your vet.

Read every answer on one page

Where the facts come from

    This year at the sanctuary

    2026 so far

    The short version of what’s been happening around here. We add a line whenever something worth telling happens.

    1. We’re about to start building the geese a cedar shed home by the greenhouse.

    2. We started the Dessie Fund for emergency care.

    3. Three Sebastopol geese, Gigi, Alexander and Lillibet, joined the farm. They live in the greenhouse area.

    4. We became an official 501(c)(3) public charity.

    5. Rainey and Charlie, two mini donkeys, came to the farm for sanctuary.

    Emergency care

    The Dessie Fund

    Dessie, a red bloodhound in a harness, standing in the grass and looking back over her shoulder, with water and trees behind her
    In memory of Dessie · Bloodhound
    “We want to be able to say yes.”

    For emergencies likeRainey’s choke and Skunk’s leg amputation

    Give to the Dessie Fund

    Dessie wandered onto our farm one July. She was emaciated, covered head to toe in mange, and fighting all sorts of infections. She didn’t trust anyone. She was broken.

    Dessie the day she was found: a thin red bloodhound with bare, darkened skin from mange across her back and legs, looking back over her shoulder
    Dessie, the day we found her

    It took us several hours to coax her in, using a biscuit a passerby handed us. Jules kept calling her Dessie in the sweetest voice she had, a name she pulled out of thin air in the moment she met her, and that’s what finally brought her close. It was the right name. Lane’s grandmother was named Dessie too: a tough lady, a fighter, and someone who loved dogs.

    We spent that whole summer treating her, feeding her, exercising her, and bringing her back to health. More than that, we brought her back to trust. We adored her. She was a really special bloodhound, and we would have kept her forever.

    Duke and Dessie, two red hounds in orange collars, looking through a wire fence together
    Dessie and Duke

    Then one night, we believe her stomach flipped. Jules got home and took her straight to the vet, but they had no room and couldn’t take her. We could try somewhere else, the vet said, but she probably wouldn’t make it. We made the hard decision to end her suffering. It was one of the most traumatic nights we’ve ever had here on the farm.

    We said yes to Dessie, and we still weren’t able to save her. That sticks with us. We don’t want another animal to be turned away, or to go without help, when it matters most. The Dessie Fund sets money aside for emergency care, so when the next animal needs help fast, we can say yes.

    We fought hard for Dessie, and we fight hard for every animal here.

    Jules and Lane Morris

    Giving TuesdayDec 1

    Our first Giving Tuesday is coming.

    On December 1, 2026, we’re asking our community to help fill the hay loft for winter. Put it on your calendar now, and watch for the animals leading up to it.

    82 days away

    Give early
    Lane leaning down to pet two mini donkeys, one dark brown and one gray and white, outside the barn

    Help us build

    Now we need more barn.

    We say there’s room in the barn, and we mean it. To keep saying yes to animals who need us, we need the right tools and the right buildings. These are the projects we’re raising money for next.

    Grow our own

    The Tractor Fund

    A tractor to care for the grounds and to grow, cut and bale our own hay. Growing our own hay brings down what it costs to feed every animal here, year after year, so every gift keeps working long after it’s given.

    Teach

    The Education Barn

    A home for our education mission: a place to teach farm and animal care, host student volunteers, and welcome visitors.

    Right now

    Animal housing

    Shelters and housing upgrades for the residents who already call the sanctuary home, starting with a cedar shed for the geese by the greenhouse.

    Give to the building fund

    Businesses, foundations, and builders: we’d love to talk. Email us.

    Volunteer

    Lend a hand in the barn.

    Our volunteers are University of Tennessee students earning service hours and neighbors from our own community, and we put every one of them to good use. No farm experience needed, just a willingness to get your boots dirty.

    We’re a working sanctuary on a private farm, so all visits and volunteer shifts are scheduled ahead of time.

    Sign up to volunteer Read the guidebook Volunteer waiver Volunteers at work
    Lane and Jules carrying armfuls of hay down the barn aisle as the goats crowd in
    • Animal careFeeding, watering, mucking stalls, and time with the residents.
    • Coop & greenhouse projectsBuilding, fixing, and keeping the poultry and growing spaces in shape.
    • Grounds workFencing, clearing, hauling, and whatever the season calls for.
    • Content creationPhotos, video, and posts that tell the residents’ stories.
    • Event planningHelping plan fundraisers like Giving Tuesday.

    More ways to help

    Hay, shavings, and a check in the mail.

    The wish list

    • Quality hay and straw
    • Purina feed
    • Pine pellets and shavings
    • Hemp shavings
    • Tractor Supply gift cards
    • Chewy gift cards
    Shop our Amazon wish list Shop our Chewy wish list

    Want to drop off supplies? Email us first so we can meet you at the gate.

    Other ways to give

    Prefer to mail a check? Email us and we’ll send our mailing details. Checks can be made out to Sweet BombDiggity Farms Rescue & Sanctuary.

    For any gift of $250 or more, we’ll send a written acknowledgment for your tax records.

    Businesses and groups: we’d love to talk about sponsoring a season of feed or helping us build the barns.

    Email us about giving
    Jules and Lane Morris hand-feeding hay to goats in the center aisle of their barn Lane and Jules arm in arm beside the Sweet BombDiggity Farms compass sign on an old wooden gate Lane and Jules holding hands in a sunlit field with fall trees behind them
    Jules and Lane Morris · Photos by Jared Worsham

    Who we are

    It’s never too late to design a flourishing life.

    That belief is the heart of Sweet BombDiggity Farms, and the rescue is where we put it to work for the animals. Jules and Lane Morris founded the sanctuary in 2024 on our farm along Norris Lake, to give farm animals a second chance and to teach others how to care for them well.

    The rescue is the nonprofit side of the farm. For recipes, garden projects, and Farm Sunday, visit sweetbombdiggityfarms.com, and follow the animals every day on Instagram @sweetbombdiggityfarms.

    Board of directors: Jules Morris, President · Lane Morris, Secretary · Samantha McMillan, Treasurer