Pastured Poultry Talk Podcast

The Pastured Poultry Talk podcast, hosted by Mike Badger, explores the production, the business, the community, and the entrepreneurs that make direct marketed pasture-raised poultry possible.

PPT034: Author Rebecca Thistlethwaite Discusses Producing and Marketing Ethical Meats

Rebbeca Thistlethwaite and her co-author and husband Jim Dunlop wrote the book The New Livestock Farmer: The Business of Raising and Selling Ethical Meats and the author of Farms of the Future. Between them, they have a diverse livestock, orchard, and vegetable farming history. Their pastured poultry production includes layers (flocks as large as 5,000), broilers (up…

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PPT033: UC Davis Builds an Egg Mobile and Joins the Pastured Poultry Community

Members of the UC Davis pastured poultry research farm join the podcast to tell us about their project. Mike is joined by Dr. Richard Blatchford and Carine Elkhoraibi. The project describes itself as “a new education, research and innovation hub for pastured poultry producers (layers and broilers), master gardeners, backyard flock keepers, academia, students, food buyers, food…

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PPT032: Show Updates and Upcoming Poultry Events

In this episode, we provide you with some show updates and explain our infrequency and most importantly, tell you how we’re moving forward. Mike has upgraded his podcast studio–what do you think about the sound? We also share one of the hottest pastured poultry events happening in the February in conjunction with the Mother Earth…

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