In a world that tends to favor a “bigger is better” mentality we in the small farm community cherish the ability to give more individual attention to our animals and to our customers. 

Producing on a small-scale farm means taking advantage of rotational grazing. This is a method in which the animals periodically are moved to different areas of the pasture in order to control their impact on the land, the manure load the land receives, and the amount of grass and forage that is consumed. This is the primary factor that enables sustainability.

Since the Industrial Revolution monocropping, heavy machinery, and synthetic fertilizers have been all the rave in the agricultural industry. In more recent times there has been a mass movement to go against this grain and into a farming framework commonly noted as Regenerative Farming, in which farmers use nothing but natural resources to grow their crops, their livestock, and their land. That’s what LPP is all about.  

One of the major purposes behind regenerative farming is to put organic matter back into the soil. If you have ever seen a patch of bare soil it became that way because of a lack of organic content. Dirt by itself does not hold much nutrition nor does it have much ecological activity going on within it unless there is matter such as animal manure to encourage decomposition. Unlike chemical fertilizer, organic matter brings life and bio-activity into the soil.