Spirit Farm has been raising healthy, happy, regenerative animals to provide meat for the local community for the past six years and our mission is to provide healthier, local meat to surrounding communities. We are a proud USDA approved and New Mexico Grown approved supplier with a mission to provide healthier, local meat to surrounding communities.
We’ve Expanded Operations!
We were recently blessed with funding and support through Growing Justice to be able to expand our operations and capabilities in order serve local institutions and people with better quality meat. If you are a local, New Mexico institution interested in purchasing healthier and happier meat from Spirit Farm, please fill out the inquiry form below and someone will get in touch!
Our animals are raised humanely and freely with love and care by people in the local community. From the birthing, to the raising, to the butchering process, we make sure we are working with humane practices, which includes making sure our animals eat healthy.
What Makes Our Meat Special?
Healthy Feed, Healthy Meat
In addition to adding biochar to the animal feeds, we are fermenting grain and beans that are fed to our animals; chickens, ducks, turkeys, pigs, sheep and cows. Fermentation of feeds is a very easy application that removes the chemical fertilizer toxins from the trash grains we source from local agricultural conventional farms. Fermentation also increases the bioavailability of the nutrients in the grains and adds microbes to the gut microbiome. When sent to the lab for testing, our pork meat had healthier fats than pigs grazing 50% on pasture. In the desert we don’t have the luxury of pasture, and this has provided us with an inexpensive healthy alternative approach. We are in the middle of research right now to determine additional benefits from feeding biochar to our animals, including if PFA’s (the forever chemicals) can be reduced in chicken eggs. Recent studies have found PFA’s in organic chicken eggs from the fish meal added to the organic chicken feeds.
No Antibiotics, No Hormones
We do not give our animals antibiotics. It taints the meat, reduces the nutrients in the meats and kills the microbes inside the animal’s digestive systems. It also kills the microbes on the soil for up to four months when the animal excretes. Since our farm makes microbial rich compost, we need healthy microbial rich manure. Much of our meat sales and bartering has made Spirit Farm a local stop for many that do not have access to affordable, clean meats.
Indigenous Regenerative Intelligence
Our quest to honor and perpetuate our culture and fulfill our obligation to care for the Earth is shared by hundreds of other Tribes who also have suffered from dislocations and environmental damage. We are developing an adaptable, effective, and affordable framework to share with them to support our common desire to transform our communities, advance climate and social justice, and build resilience for the future. Our Navajo bio-cosmology rejects a reductionist view of agricultural science and instead teaches that biology must be understood through the lens of spirituality. Our heritage teaches us to understand the land, the people and the climate through a framework that leads to flourishing results. We have a deep, rooted cosmology in regards to Indigenous Regenerative Intelligence. At Spirit Farm we are embracing nature’s solutions by embedding Indigenous practices. We must quickly stir the sleeping giant.
