broilers

PPT054: Interview with Paul Greive of Pasturebird: It started with 50 chicks

[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5723850/height/90/width/480/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/” height=”90″ width=”480″]Paul Greive from Pasturebird joins the show. Paul is a partner in a southern California farm that started just five years ago from 50 chicks. And they’re rising quickly. A $2000 investment among 4 guys started as an experiment. There came a point when the farm venture didn’t have enough cash to buy…

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PPT053: Feeding People and Creating Jobs with New Roots Farm

[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/5698303/height/90/width/480/theme/custom/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/autoplay/no/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/” height=”90″ width=”480″] Nick Stolberg is just beginning his career as a pastured poultry farmer in Cap Haitian, Haiti where he’s using pastured poultry to feed people and create jobs. Raising pastured poultry is the latest stop on his long-term mission, and I use his Haitian experience to reflect on our opportunities and challenges…

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PPT040: Mike Marchand Shares His Business Perspective on Growing His Pastured Poultry Farm From Scratch

[app_audio src=”[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/4319432/height/100/width/480/theme/standard-mini/autoplay/no/autonext/no/thumbnail/yes/preload/no/no_addthis/no/direction/forward/” height=”100″ width=”480″]”] Talk about this episode on Facebook. Mike Marchand of Whitehurst Farms joins the show to talk about his rapidly growing career as a pastured poultry farmer in the Houston, Texas area. He sold his successful non-farming business and starting raising poultry in 2014. Today, he manages a laying flock of…

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