Ring in spring by petting a goat or hugging a cow at the Luvin Arms Animal Sanctuary. The sanctuary, 3470 County Road 7 in Erie, will hold its Spring Fest celebration Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

A Harpursville couple gives away squash, zucchini and hugs to visitors to their farm stand. “They come as strangers and leave as friends,” Jessica Fenescey said of the people who come to their farm ...

Donna Gervasi, co-owner of Grayrock Farm Sanctuary in New Jersey, knows turkeys have feelings. They cry. They whimper. They love. They mourn. “When we had to euthanize our turkey Nicholas, I had to ...