Bomvida Farms

The Scoop on Poop

Healthy animal poop = better farms

When we first purchased the land for Bomvida Farms, the first thing we bought was animals.
Four pigs, 5 goats, and 15 chickens. Why?

For their poop!

Bomvida Farms was a vineyard many years ago. There are still grapes growing in some places here and we have neighbors who grow grapes for wine. However we want to feed families and our land was mostly dry sand with desert brush.

We know that when it comes to food, you get out what you put in. So we got to work improving the soil. It's going to take us years, but our farming methods produce better fruits, veggies, and meats than anything you are going to find at the grocery store.

So we rotate animals and plants through the farm in small batches to enhance the organic matter and biology of the soil. As we write this, there are 118 animals on the farm.

  • The goats eat the desert bushes and grasses
  • The pigs follow the goats and trample the ground, tilling the dirt with their noses. They eat up roots and even the goat poop. (it's okay...this is actually good for them. The amino acids in goat poop helps the pigs grow a more marbled meat without packing on fat. It takes longer to get them to weight, but we think it's worth it!)
  • The chickens and turkeys scratch the dirt following the pigs and keep the insects and their larvae down. They also fertilize the freshly hog-tilled ground with their poop.
  • We seed the area with cover crops and certain grasses/weeds then cover with mulch and biochar. This helps nutrients stay near the surface instead of leaching deep into the ground every time it rains or we water. We wait while the New Mexico sun sanitizes all the fertilized area for 6 months to a year. Then we cover the ground with a hoop house and plant the foods that fill your fridge!
  • After the harvest we'll let the animals come through again and eat the plant remains, continuing the cycle.
  • Years and years from now, you won't even know Bomvida Farms was dry desert. It'll be covered in dark, healthy, organic dirt and compost. Naturally!

Thanks poo!