animals

"You are what you eat but you are what you eat eats, too."

- Chef Dan Barber from The Third Plate

Because energy is simply transferred from one form to another, never created or destroyed, this concept means that everything we have ever eaten, everything that we have ever eaten has eaten, and so on, makes up who we are. From what plants eat to the plants that animals eat, to the water that we drink, we literally are what we eat.

 
 
 

Sheep and Lamb

Breed: Dorset/Il de France cross

Food: a diverse forage mix of cool season pastures, warm season natives and Kernza

 

 

 
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Pigs

Breed: Gloucestershire Old Spot/Berkshire cross

Food: a diverse organic mix of oats, wheat, corn, barley, peas, lentils, alfalfa, soybeans, sesame, canola, kelp, food waste, seasonal vegetables, nuts apples, pumpkins and squash, and all the grass and hay they want to nosh on.

 

 
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Chickens for meat

Breed: Freedom Rangers

Food: a diverse organic mix of oats, wheat, corn, barley, peas, alfalfa, soybeans, sesame, canola, kelp and all the grass, bugs and seeds they can forage

 

 

 

 
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Chickens for eggs

Breed: Rhode Island Red, ISA Brown, California White, Wellsummer, and Barred Rock

Food: a diverse non-GMO mix of oats, corn, alfalfa, soybeans, kelp, buckwheat, and all the grass, bugs, and seeds they can forage

 

 
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Turkeys

Breed: Red Bourbons and domestic broad breasted white

Food: a diverse organic mix of oats, wheat, corn, barley, peas, alfalfa, soybeans, sesame, canola, kelp and all the grass, bugs and seeds they can forage

 

 

Cattle

Breed: Dexter

Food: a diverse forage mix of cool season pastures, warm season natives and Kernza