A herd of farm animals meanders across a grassy knoll, trailing after a slim, dark-haired woman in a straw-dusted barn jacket and rain boots.
“As long as I’m outside, they just want to be with me,” says Miyoko Schinner, a vegan chef and the force behind the Rancho Compasión Animal Sanctuary, a newly minted nonprofit in Nicasio. “When I leave, they wait for me by the fence before they go off and do their own…