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Beliefs and Practices
We fully believe that if every yard was used to its fullest potential there would be no food shortages. However, the vast majority of Americans waste huge amounts of money, water, and time caring for an essentially useless spread of grass. Adding animals to your yard provides a ready source of natural fertilizer, consumes grass waste, and even reduces the need to mow or pull weeds. Plus, you get healthy delicious food out of the bargain.
It is known that good soil is the basis for good food. But what is commonly overlooked is the role that animals play in the soil life cycle. With a basic understanding of soil biology, a few chickens or a pair of goats can be used to create a thriving and healthy community of soil microorganisms, the building blocks of good soil. Keeping the system as closed as possible, by recycling the nutrients both from animal manure and compost from yards or gardens, can help to both increase the health of the system as well as making it more affordable and ultimately more sustainable.
It is known that good soil is the basis for good food. But what is commonly overlooked is the role that animals play in the soil life cycle. With a basic understanding of soil biology, a few chickens or a pair of goats can be used to create a thriving and healthy community of soil microorganisms, the building blocks of good soil. Keeping the system as closed as possible, by recycling the nutrients both from animal manure and compost from yards or gardens, can help to both increase the health of the system as well as making it more affordable and ultimately more sustainable.
Making it Financially Viable
The biggest problem most backyard animal owners face is money. It is very hard to get enough milk and eggs from goats, chickens or ducks to pay for the feed. Thus most people consider animals a hobby, and not a viable source of food. This is true if the only food your animals have access to is grain, and if their manure sits in a pile in the corner of your yard. In an unsustainable open system like this your goats will produce little and low quality milk, and your chickens will not lay often, and only produce eggs with low nutrient value.
Instead, we teach a sustainable closed system of animal care. By rotating the animals through your yard, letting them eat your grass, feeding them leftover food scraps, using their manure in your garden, and using your chickens as pest control, then finally feeding leftover plant material back to the animals, you create a cycle that only has to be supplemented with small amounts of inexpensive grain. Even better, this grain can be made more nutritious and therefore more cost-effective by sprouting.
Instead, we teach a sustainable closed system of animal care. By rotating the animals through your yard, letting them eat your grass, feeding them leftover food scraps, using their manure in your garden, and using your chickens as pest control, then finally feeding leftover plant material back to the animals, you create a cycle that only has to be supplemented with small amounts of inexpensive grain. Even better, this grain can be made more nutritious and therefore more cost-effective by sprouting.
Let your home produce your food.
Our mission is to educate and inspire everyone we can to care for the soil they live on through sustainable animal production while simultaneously producing healthy food.
Animals play a key role in soil production, which is essential for good food and a healthy planet. Even soil in a small backyard plot in the center of town can be used to produce an abundance of products if it is utilized fully.
We aim to help people produce food in their backyards by raising small scale livestock, like goats for milk, chickens and ducks for eggs, and honey bees for honey. We will do this in a manner that is cost effective to the customer, while not compromising on the care of the animals. We will use composting and rotational grazing to help customers build soil in their yards and gardens as well as to help produce some of the animals' food.
Animals play a key role in soil production, which is essential for good food and a healthy planet. Even soil in a small backyard plot in the center of town can be used to produce an abundance of products if it is utilized fully.
We aim to help people produce food in their backyards by raising small scale livestock, like goats for milk, chickens and ducks for eggs, and honey bees for honey. We will do this in a manner that is cost effective to the customer, while not compromising on the care of the animals. We will use composting and rotational grazing to help customers build soil in their yards and gardens as well as to help produce some of the animals' food.