Local Cooling Farms

Local Cooling Farms Farming sustainably to produce healthy food, treat livestock with respect and dignity, rebuild ecosystems and sequester carbon into the soil.

Local Cooling = the opposite of Global Warming. We believe that when we look to nature as our guide, we can produce nutrient-dense food in a way that restores and regenerates the soil and our ecosystem versus depleting it. On 60 acres of land south of Bogalusa, we are building our farm from the ground up (literally)! Because grazing animals (especially ruminants like cattle and goats) on pasture a

nd silvopasture can actually sequester carbon back into the soil, our name name reflects our mission to practice regenerative agriculture methods that reverse global warming and climate change rather than contribute to it. Our primary goals are to:

-Grow nutrient-dense food for people
-Raise livestock with dignity, care and transparency
-Recycle some of our community’s agricultural residuals
-Rebuild a healthy ecosystem on our property and the surrounding acreage
-Sequester carbon back into the soil (hence the name!)

Currently we raise hens and hogs on pasture for eggs and pork and rotationally graze cattle and goats for beef and goat meat. All of our farm products are sold through our gardening-store-turned-farm-store, Laughing Buddha Nursery.

Our spring litters of piglets from our gilts (first-time mommas) made it to two weeks old today. 🐷☺️Well, two of the thr...
04/20/2026

Our spring litters of piglets from our gilts (first-time mommas) made it to two weeks old today. 🐷☺️

Well, two of the three litters were born Easter Sunday, the third two days later.

One of gals did not like her accommodations and broke the gate to her stall, jumped over some boards and spent hours making a nest of sweet gum saplings in the rain. Bless her heart, she had the biggest litter of the three and we didn’t have major rain or storms forecasted after she farrowed so we let her be.

Last night when it rained, she brought them back into the stall, go figure! I guess she likes Suite B of the farrowing barn now. 😉

The other two litters with compliant mommas are doing well, too, and the Ginger momma has the chillest temperament we’ve had in a while and very chill piglets to match her vibe.

Red momma wins the award for being the most careful and hyper aware though.

All in all, pretty good across the board for three first timers!

(Swipe all the way to the end for sleepy piglet belly rubs 😍🐷).

Married to .localcoolingfarms for 10 years today! 😍Somehow we managed to start , raise thousands of chickens and hundred...
04/03/2026

Married to .localcoolingfarms for 10 years today! 😍

Somehow we managed to start , raise thousands of chickens and hundreds of goats, pigs and cattle, turn into a local grocery, buy the land next to us, build a house on it and… survive and stay married!

It’s certainly been a wild ride and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Or, I would change some things, but I wouldn’t change the person I’m doing all this with for anything.

We celebrated our anniversary by getting outside at 5 this morning to move some chickens around and make space for another big hatch coming out of the incubator (the last pic).

It’s busy season for the soil business and lots of livestock related things happen in the spring, too, (like hatching chicks so we have enough eggs in the fall and winter!), so you gotta make hay while the sun is shining, as the say, and look around and realize that you’re living the life you wanted!

02/03/2026

Ducklings go from incubator to brooder. Slowly ramping up our ducks for eggs.

02/02/2026

We’re trying to produce the best eggs possible for our customers at . Be sure to find your farmer doing the same in your area

02/01/2026

Khaki Campbell Duck hatch. We’ll slowly build our layer duck numbers as we build up our duck egg customers. We appreciate the patronage so far enabling us to add an extra enterprise on the farm.

01/31/2026

Slow grazing and feeding hay to the cattle. We keep them moving to distribute their manure/urine as they are part of building up soil all while producing grass fed beef

01/30/2026

Layer Pullets reduce thistle down to a stump. It’s not a w**d if your livestock eat it.

01/26/2026

Pastured poultry shelters with 4-5 month old pullets. 5” of rain followed by freezing temps. Birds did great

01/25/2026

Fungi is getting after the coffee grounds and helping turn it into compost. We’ll then sell the compost or use it as an ingredient in our raised bed mix

01/24/2026

With Beef prices high it’s a great time to seek out farmers raising pigs humanely outside where they have access to fresh areas to graze & root around in the sunlight.

Address

57355 Sam Mizell Road
Bogalusa, LA
70427

Opening Hours

Wednesday 7:30am - 12pm
Thursday 7:30am - 12pm
Friday 7:30am - 12pm
Saturday 7:30am - 12pm

Telephone

+15042343564

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