Goat House Project

This project is an attempting to help "think about food and agriculture and feel life." For over three years of work, a series of workshops were held, from raising a baby goat to building a house, making compost, planting and harvesting rice, mating for new life, milking and making cheese. The hard work labor and caring of the artist and local people have brome fruit and the baby goat become fine grownup mother goat.

The production of animal foods is less energy-efficient and more environmentally harmful than the production of plant foods for direct human consumption. Animals use the energy they get from foods for their day-to-day bodily functions. This means that only a percentage of the energy that animals obtain from plant foods is converted into animal foods such as meat or dairy products. In this project, we feed our goats agricultural residuals or weeds that are unsuitable for human consumption and apply integrated farming practices through utilizing goat manure for the purpose of not obtaining animal foods but companionship and knowledge of the food system.