Blood, Sweat, & Food Farms

Blood, Sweat, & Food Farms builds its operation around soil health first. Before planting pasture or garden, the farm works to develop rich, living soil using animals as nature intended. Pigs root in the ground and break new ground; ducks and geese forage for slugs and weeds; sheep keep grass at the right height for pasture-raised chickens to follow behind and scratch for bugs. The farm uses a pasture rotation system to keep all animals moving across fresh ground. Fish, seaweed, and wood chip compost are added to fields to further build soil health. The farm explicitly contrasts this integrated animal-and-soil approach with concentrated industrial agriculture, describing animal waste as a resource rather than a problem when distributed properly across living soil.