Lamppost Farm Animals aka. Our Employees
Early Beginnings...4 Goats & 50 Chickens
Lamppost Farm employs a significant workforce which is set to regenerate the soil through being the animals that God has created them to be. On the farm, goats eat, chew their cud, and spread their manure. The landscape management that is going on is re-claiming a heavily logged woodlot behind our house. And, in old cornfields, chickens move daily in their field pens to forage for grasses and gobble up bugs. What is left behind is a layer of manure that within a year has caused native grasses to grow, soil to be built, and better pasture to be consumed in the future.
Soon, Lamppost Farm will employ pigs (natures rototillers) to assist the goats in woodlot management as well as help in turning animal bedding into compost. Another future employee is the Devon breed of beef cattle. Set to arrive in 2010, the Devon breed is called the "best beef in the grass business." Cows eat a significant amount of grass and weeds yet only turn 20% of it into usable nutrients. 80% is turned back into the soil in their manure. This is great for renewal due to the presence of new microbes that are left behind. And also, their ability to eat grass and turn it into high quality marbled meat is second to none. We won't need to feed our cattle grain because the Devon finish equally well on grass as they do on grain!
Each animal on the farm makes multiple contributions (even the cat). Goats produce milk and meat through their kids. And, pastured chickens and pastured pigs, as well as grass-fed beef provide nutrients, cancer fighting acids, and healthy fats that conventionally raised animals do not.
Soon, Lamppost Farm will employ pigs (natures rototillers) to assist the goats in woodlot management as well as help in turning animal bedding into compost. Another future employee is the Devon breed of beef cattle. Set to arrive in 2010, the Devon breed is called the "best beef in the grass business." Cows eat a significant amount of grass and weeds yet only turn 20% of it into usable nutrients. 80% is turned back into the soil in their manure. This is great for renewal due to the presence of new microbes that are left behind. And also, their ability to eat grass and turn it into high quality marbled meat is second to none. We won't need to feed our cattle grain because the Devon finish equally well on grass as they do on grain!
Each animal on the farm makes multiple contributions (even the cat). Goats produce milk and meat through their kids. And, pastured chickens and pastured pigs, as well as grass-fed beef provide nutrients, cancer fighting acids, and healthy fats that conventionally raised animals do not.
Lamppost Solar-Powered Chickens
Lamppost Grass-Fed Beef
Lamppost Nubian Goats
Lamppost Pastured Pigs