This kind of sounds like a hobby farm.

Must take forever if they're using hobby horses to get around.

"Once they began to consider not using animal byproducts, “I was in a panic as I hadn’t heard of veganics, and my initial concern was that soil microbes would suffer without organic matter to feed them,” said Matthew."

I'm not sure you should be starting a farm if you don't understand that "organic matter" doesn't make any distinction between plant or animal sources.

With the exception of egg shells, I suppose I'm a "veganic" gardener, but I've never thought about it or done it intentionally. It's not like it takes any more effort or thought. The only fertilizer I use is my own household and garden compost, the only insecticide I use is neem oil. I don't do it specifically for moral or ecological reasons, although that's a nice side effect. I'm just cheap and lazy.

I want to eat a meal consisting entirely of organisms that committed suicide.

This actually seems like a hoax. How is this even a moral position? Not using horse manure to fertilize your garden just seems stupid and pointless. There's no animal exploitation involved.

You're taking the manure that horse would have used to grow potatoes on Mars.

I had not considered that.

Anyway, you must first destroy the original ecosystem of the tract of land you'll use to farm.