Podcast appearances and mentions of cody hopkins

Cody Hopkins is the co-founder of Grassroots Farmers' Cooperative, a pioneering initiative based in rural Arkansas dedicated to connecting consumers with high-quality, ethically-raised meat products. As a first-generation farmer, Cody, along with his wife, transitioned from a background in physics to sustainable farming inspired by figures like Joel Salatin. Over the past decade, they have built Grassroots from the ground up, emphasizing transparency, sustainability, and community-driven solutions to the challenges of modern agriculture.Key topics discussed: Impact of COVID-19 on consumer behavior and food system resilienceThe necessity for more decentralized food processing infrastructureSocioeconomic components of food pricing and consumer educationInnovative financing and ownership models for sustainable agricultureRole of farm subsidies and government policies in shaping the food systemTimestamps:(00:00) - Shifting Consumer Behavior Post-COVID(04:00) - The Economics of Food Pricing and Quality(06:15) - Advocating for Less Meat but Better Quality(12:00) - The Realities of Industrial Poultry Farming(18:00) - Innovative Financing and Ownership Models in Agriculture*** LINKS***Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what's happening between episodes of the show.Connect with Cody:LinkedinConnect with Grass Roots Farmers' Cooperative:InstagramWebsiteConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It's a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

Cody Hopkins is the co-founder of Grassroots Farmers' Cooperative, a pioneering initiative based in rural Arkansas dedicated to connecting consumers with high-quality, ethically-raised meat products. As a first-generation farmer, Cody, along with his wife, transitioned from a background in physics to sustainable farming inspired by figures like Joel Salatin. Over the past decade, they have built Grassroots from the ground up, emphasizing transparency, sustainability, and community-driven solutions to the challenges of modern agriculture.Key topics discussed: Issues with the centralized and industrialized food systemImpact of sustainable farming on rural economiesConsumer demand driving change in agricultureEducation on nutrient density and farming practicesEnvironmental benefits of regenerative agricultureBridging the urban-rural divide through food systems.Timestamps:(00:00) - Introduction and Cody's Background(03:50) - Challenges of Starting a Farm(08:45) - Issues with the Centralized Food System(12:00) - Educating Consumers on Food Quality(19:30) - Environmental Benefits of Regenerative Agriculture*** LINKS***Check out our Newsletter - Food for Thought - to dramatically improve your health this year!Join The Meat Mafia community Telegram group for daily conversations to keep up with what's happening between episodes of the show.Connect with Cody:LinkedinConnect with Grass Roots Farmers' Cooperative:InstagramWebsiteConnect with Meat Mafia:Instagram - Meat MafiaTwitter - Meat MafiaYouTube - Meat MafiaConnect with Noble Protein:Website - Noble ProteinTwitter - Noble ProteinInstagram - Noble ProteinAFFILIATESLMNT - Electrolyte salts to supplement minerals on low-carb dietThe Carnivore Bar - Use Code 'MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - Delicious & convenient Pemmican BarPerennial Pastures - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' 10% OFF - Regeneratively raised, grass-fed & grass-finished beef from California & MontanaFarrow Skincare - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' at checkout for 20% OFFHeart & Soil - CODE ‘MEATMAFIA' for 10% OFF - enhanced nutrition to replace daily vitamins!Carnivore Snax - Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA' Crispy, airy meat chips that melt in your mouth. Regeneratively raised in the USA.Pluck Seasoning - 15% OFF - Nutrient-dense seasoning with INSANE flavor! Use CODE: MEATMAFIAWe Feed Raw 25% OFF your first order - ancestrally consistent food for your dog! Use CODE 'MEATMAFIA'Fond Bone Broth - 15% OFF - REAL bone broth with HIGH-QUALITY ingredients! It's a daily product for us! Use CODE: MAFIA

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On this episode, we have Cody Hopkins who is the CEO and Founding Farmer at Grass Roots Farmers' Cooperative. Grass Roots is supporting regenerative agriculture with its 7-species lineup of meat products. In this episode, we learn why Cody was inspired to start the Co-Op after being a small-scale poultry farmer, what makes their business model and corporate structure unique, and how Heifer International and Heifer USA have been important partners along the way. Episode Highlights:

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Cody Hopkins is a physicist turned first-generation farmer and founder and CEO of Grass Roots Farmers' Cooperative. He has spent more than a dozen years developing a vertically integrated sustainable livestock farm with an unwavering vision of creating a farming business that is focused on the compassionate treatment of animals, sustainable farm practices, and transparency to the end consumer. In 2014, Cody and his wife, Andrea Todt, established Grass Roots Farmers' Cooperative, with their own Falling Sky Farm in Arkansas as one of the founding farms. Grass Roots is a cooperative of family-run farms committed to the craft of small-batch farming—delivering only the best, most nutritious meat from their farms to your table. They raise every one of their grass-fed, forested, and pasture-raised animals with the highest standards. Their Mission: “Healthy animals raised outdoors with sunlight, fresh air, and clean grass. No hormones, antibiotics, or GMOs needed.” Grass Roots Co-op has grown from 6 to over 20 farms and has been featured on The Today Show, Food Network, Bulletproof Radio, and many other. Connect with Cody: Grassrootscoop.com Connect with Dr. Aaron Tressler: www.in8life.com Facebook & Instagram: @in8life

Grass Roots Co-Op is changing the farming landscape with its emphasis on the compassionate treatment of animals, sustainable farm practices, and transparency to the end consumer. In this episode, we sit down with founder Cody Hopkins to talk about everything from sustainable agriculture to the health benefits of grass-fed, grass-finished meat. And he explains why grass-fed meat just tastes better too!Cody Hopkins is a physicist turned farmer who has spent the better part of the last dedicated to studying ethical farming practices and regenerative agriculture. In 2014, he founded Grass Roots Farmers' Cooperative – a collective of small-scale family farms focused on the compassionate treatment of animals, sustainable farm practices, and transparency to the end consumer. Grass Roots Co-op has grown from 6 to over 20 farms and has been featured on The Today Show, Food Network, and Bulletproof Radio.Use Discount Code "BB30" for $30 OFF YOUR FIRST ORDER OF $150 at www.grassrootscoop.com.ABOUT BEAUTY & THE BIOHACKER:Learn more: beautyandthebiohacker.comEmail us at info@beautyandthebiohacker.comABOUT RACHEL & KATIE:Learn more with Rachel Varga BScN, RN, CANS, Board Certified Aesthetic Nurse Specialist https://RachelVarga.caBOOK YOUR ONE ON ONE Virtual Skin and Aging Consultation with Rachel Varga here: https://RachelVarga.ca/get-startedLearn more with Katie Type A: https://katietypea.comCheck out Katie Type A's YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3le3MUJDISCLAIMER: Information in this podcast and interview is not to be taken as medical advice, and always consult with your Physician before making any lifestyle changes. The material shared by guests in this podcast is not the opinion of Rachel Varga or Katie Moore, and disclaims any responsibility of inaccurate credentials of guests or information used that may cause harm. Always consult with your licensed Physician before any lifestyle modifications.

When eateries of all sizes shut down because of coronavirus the farmers supplying those businesses with meat were also hurt financially. Could decentralizing the meat supply chain strengthen the modern United States meat business? FOX's Trey Yingst speaks with Cody Hopkins, CEO of Grass Roots Farmers' Cooperative, about what the pandemic has taught us about the food supply chain.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When eateries of all sizes shut down because of coronavirus the farmers supplying those businesses with meat were also hurt financially. Could decentralizing the meat supply chain strengthen the modern United States meat business? FOX’s Trey Yingst speaks with Cody Hopkins, CEO of Grass Roots Farmers’ Cooperative, about what the pandemic has taught us about the food supply chain.  

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, I’ve invited two guests to talk about a different perspective on the current disruptions in the U.S. meat supply. Covid-19 has turned a spotlight on problems within industrial meat processing. But there’s another way that keeps workers safe and product quality high for consumers. There are small-scale farmers and meat processors providing total integrity throughout the value chain. Preserving natural ecosystems, respecting animals, and protecting the environment are simply the way they do business. Plus, they’ve got science on their side proving why grass-fed, pasture-raised livestock is both the healthiest—and most humane—meat choice.Cody Hopkins is a physicist who decided to be a farmer, then founded Grass Roots Farmers’ Cooperative in Arkansas and serves as its CEO. He and the Grass Roots partner farms are changing the way meat is produced and consumed across the U.S. He’s focused on regenerative agriculture, animal welfare, sustainability and blockchain technology.“There is a growing awareness of the vulnerability of our meat supply chain, especially at the processing level,” Cody says. “When one company or one plant produces 130 million servings every week, it's producing 5% of the country's pork. That is a scary position to be in and I think people are really waking up to that right now.”Andy Shaw, CEO of Cypress Valley Meat Company in Arkansas, has more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of meat processing. He oversees multiple USDA-inspected processing plants that service Grass Roots, major retailers and farmers, and private label products for renowned restaurants. “When you look at what people have said in the past of being too big to fail, we're seeing quite the opposite now,” Andy says. “I think they're [industrial meat processing plants] too big to stay continually in motion while all this is going on. When you’ve got that many employees concentrated in one location, it's almost impossible to keep everybody healthy and at work. We're seeing the repercussions of having a centralized food system right now.”Enjoy the show! And get more resources at https://blog.daveasprey.com/category/podcasts/

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, I’ve invited two guests to talk about a different perspective on the current disruptions in the U.S. meat supply. Covid-19 has turned a spotlight on problems within industrial meat processing. But there’s another way that keeps workers safe and product quality high for consumers. There are small-scale farmers and meat processors providing total integrity throughout the value chain. Preserving natural ecosystems, respecting animals, and protecting the environment are simply the way they do business. Plus, they’ve got science on their side proving why grass-fed, pasture-raised livestock is both the healthiest—and most humane—meat choice.Cody Hopkins is a physicist who decided to be a farmer, then founded Grass Roots Farmers’ Cooperative in Arkansas and serves as its CEO. He and the Grass Roots partner farms are changing the way meat is produced and consumed across the U.S. He’s focused on regenerative agriculture, animal welfare, sustainability and blockchain technology.“There is a growing awareness of the vulnerability of our meat supply chain, especially at the processing level,” Cody says. “When one company or one plant produces 130 million servings every week, it's producing 5% of the country's pork. That is a scary position to be in and I think people are really waking up to that right now.”Andy Shaw, CEO of Cypress Valley Meat Company in Arkansas, has more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of meat processing. He oversees multiple USDA-inspected processing plants that service Grass Roots, major retailers and farmers, and private label products for renowned restaurants. “When you look at what people have said in the past of being too big to fail, we're seeing quite the opposite now,” Andy says. “I think they're [industrial meat processing plants] too big to stay continually in motion while all this is going on. When you’ve got that many employees concentrated in one location, it's almost impossible to keep everybody healthy and at work. We're seeing the repercussions of having a centralized food system right now.”Enjoy the show! And get more resources at https://blog.daveasprey.com/category/podcasts/

Here's the notes for episode #264 of Well-Fed Women. Be sure to check back every Tuesday for a new episode, and head over to Apple Podcasts or Stitcher to subscribe! To leave a review for the podcast (HORRAY!), go to: https://coconutsandkettlebells.com/review In this episode, Noelle and Cody Hopkins discuss how regenerative farming helps the environment and our health. Got a question you'd like us to answer? Email us at wellfedwomen@gmail.com. 10% of the funds we receive from our sponsors is donated directly to our partner charity, Thistle Farms, a place where women survivors of abuse, addiction, trafficking and prostitution receive help and support through residential programs, therapy, education, and employment opportunities. Because we get paid per download, you are actively supporting Thistle Farms by downloading our podcast each week. Topics! [03:54] How Regenerative Farming Helps the Environment and Our Health Links! Noelle's website: https://coconutsandkettlebells.com Stefani's website: http://healthtoempower.com Buy our book Coconuts and Kettlebells Himalaya Podcast App Well-Fed Women Holistic Health Facebook Group Joel Salatin Michael Pollan: The Omnivore's Dilemma BioOptimizers This podcast is sponsored by BiOptimizers. Please refer back to episode #258 all about digestion for some more insight on how to resolve common digestive issues. If you feel like you are doing all the right things yet you’re still struggling with digestive issues such as gas, bloating, or cramping—which are actually very common, nothing to be ashamed about—start with a high quality enzyme and try switching to a proteolytic probiotic. If you’ve never tried enzymes before, or have and it didn’t work, I encourage you to give MassZymes a go. It is a full-spectrum enzyme formula with 5 different kinds of protease, which is the enzyme that is the catalyst for the breakout of protein. And undigested proteins can cause a lot of gut dysfunction. And then their Probiotic, P3-OM, is a proteolytic probiotic, which means it digests protein. It’s antiviral, it actually eliminates pathogens and waste… and is maintainable in the human digestive system. Once in your body, the P3-OM super strain doubles every 20 minutes, and helps get rid of the bad guys—before it is safely eliminated. Give both MassZymes and P3-OM a go. So many individuals suffer from digestive issues—because any protein your body doesn’t break down creates digestive distress, gas, bloating and constipation. The combination of P3-OM and MassZymes ensures that all the protein you consume breaks down into absorbable amino acids Go to bioptimizers.com/wellfed10 And use coupon code WELLFED10 to get 10% off all products.

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, Dave talks with Cody Hopkins at the 6th Annual Biohacking Conference. Cody is a physicist turned first-generation farmer turned founder and CEO of Grass Roots Farmers’ Cooperative.He has spent more than a dozen years developing a vertically integrated sustainable livestock farm with an unwavering vision of creating a farming business that is good for the animals, good for the environment and good for customers.Cody and his wife, Andrea Todt, established Grass Roots Farmers’ Cooperative in 2014, with their own Falling Sky Farm in Arkansas as one of the founding farms. Grass Roots is a collective partnership of more than 20 small farms across the U.S—in places such as Oregon, Nevada, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, and North Carolina—fostering respectful farming practices and love for the land.“Grass Roots Cooperative is on a mission to change the way meat is produced and consumed in this country,” Cody says. “Healthy animals raised outdoors with sunlight, fresh air, and clean grass—no hormones, antibiotics, or GMOs needed.”The goal is to reach 100 farms over the next three years.Farms in the cooperative follow a single set of the highest quality standards with a focus on five priorities:Health & NutritionSustainabilityFarmer to YouButchered by HandTransparency“As customers are demanding more and more transparency and higher and higher quality meat that's healthier for them, where the animals are treated better, it's creating a whole new opportunity for farmers,” Cody says. “We’re always looking for those symbiotic relationships, where you're putting an animal in an environment that it's evolved to live in, versus trying to force them into some other system.”The outcome? A naturally balanced ecosystem, soil regeneration and productive pastures.Grass Roots’ aim is to provide the best quality and most nutritious meat in a manner that is humane, transparent, sustainable and fair. Its farms are the first in the United States to use blockchain technology to trace their products from farm to fork. This allows customers to be confident in the origin and quality of the meat they buy. Grass Roots also has an open-farm policy and is completely transparent at every stage.“Let's focus on supporting small scale farmers that are doing this right,” Cody says. “That really is what it comes back to for me, being able to connect with those small farmers, support them, and let the customers vote with their dollar on the kind of food system they want to support.” And that, says Dave, is “actually how food is supposed to work.”

In this episode of Bulletproof Radio, Dave talks with Cody Hopkins at the 6th Annual Biohacking Conference. Cody is a physicist turned first-generation farmer turned founder and CEO of Grass Roots Farmers’ Cooperative.He has spent more than a dozen years developing a vertically integrated sustainable livestock farm with an unwavering vision of creating a farming business that is good for the animals, good for the environment and good for customers.Cody and his wife, Andrea Todt, established Grass Roots Farmers’ Cooperative in 2014, with their own Falling Sky Farm in Arkansas as one of the founding farms. Grass Roots is a collective partnership of more than 20 small farms across the U.S—in places such as Oregon, Nevada, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Texas, Arkansas, and North Carolina—fostering respectful farming practices and love for the land.“Grass Roots Cooperative is on a mission to change the way meat is produced and consumed in this country,” Cody says. “Healthy animals raised outdoors with sunlight, fresh air, and clean grass—no hormones, antibiotics, or GMOs needed.”The goal is to reach 100 farms over the next three years.Farms in the cooperative follow a single set of the highest quality standards with a focus on five priorities:Health & NutritionSustainabilityFarmer to YouButchered by HandTransparency“As customers are demanding more and more transparency and higher and higher quality meat that's healthier for them, where the animals are treated better, it's creating a whole new opportunity for farmers,” Cody says. “We’re always looking for those symbiotic relationships, where you're putting an animal in an environment that it's evolved to live in, versus trying to force them into some other system.”The outcome? A naturally balanced ecosystem, soil regeneration and productive pastures.Grass Roots’ aim is to provide the best quality and most nutritious meat in a manner that is humane, transparent, sustainable and fair. Its farms are the first in the United States to use blockchain technology to trace their products from farm to fork. This allows customers to be confident in the origin and quality of the meat they buy. Grass Roots also has an open-farm policy and is completely transparent at every stage.“Let's focus on supporting small scale farmers that are doing this right,” Cody says. “That really is what it comes back to for me, being able to connect with those small farmers, support them, and let the customers vote with their dollar on the kind of food system they want to support.” And that, says Dave, is “actually how food is supposed to work.”

Livestock farmers Cody Hopkins and Andrea Todt are part of a co-op that sells meat directly to consumers online. They utilize blockchain technology that allows customers to know how their meat was raised, what it was fed, who raised it and more. In this edition of Arkansas AgCast, Hopkins describes the value of block chain technology to his operation and for consumers.

Host/Farmer Doug Stephan www.eastleighfarm.com has news of the farmer who was recently awarded $289,000,000 in a lawsuit against Monsanto Chemical. After 30-years of using their product Round-Up, he is dying of Cancer. Another Farmer has been fined $2-million for having a Birthday Party on her farm. Next, Doug welcomes Cody Hopkins, General Manager of Grass Roots Farmers Cooperative www.grassrootscoop.com . Cody, an Arkansas native, brought ten years of experience developing and growing a vertically integrated, sustainable livestock farm—Falling Sky Farm before organizing the cooperative. He describes how it works and how the farmers benefit. Finally, Doug opines about why The Government is the farmer's Boogieman.

Cody Hopkins of Grassroots Farmer Cooperative and Falling Sky Farm joins Mike Badger and Grady Phelan to talk about the power of farming friends.  In it's second year of operation, the cooperative expects to market 70,000 broilers, 2,000 broilers, 400 hogs, and 60 head of beef. Cody and his wife Andrea are first generation farmers who started in 2007 on rented land. They went from renting 40 to 250 acres. In 2010, they were full time farmers and encountered all the problems first generation farmers do including buying land, growing quickly, and cash flow. A really important benefit was that they had an informal network of livestock farmers in Arkansas that enabled bulk feed purchases, collaboration, and support.  It pushed them to be better farmers. "It made more sense to work together than to see each other as competition," says Cody. That informal network of beginning farmers teamed up with Heifer International to build a sustainable, robust value chain that would help farmers around the state of Arkansas. And the informal network was formalized into the Grass Roots Cooperative in 2014. Heifer has helped with strategic relationships, creative funding sources, market development and more. Listen to the full episode to hear Cody's thoughts on competition, quality control, marketing, production, financing, apprentice farm memberships, difficult cooperative members, and much more. Have a question? Send it to pasturedpoultrytalk@gmail.com, and Grady and Mike will answer it on a future episode. Please don't forget to pop into iTunes and give us a review.

In a special episode of the Foodcast, I head to Leslie, Arkansas, to chat with Cody Hopkins, general manager of Falling Sky Farm. We sit on his front porch and talk about raising pigs, chickens and cows; what a day in the life of a farmer is like; the challenges facing modern farmers in Arkansas; and how the farming community has banded together to help one another succeed.

This week on Greenhorn Radio Sev speaks to Cody Hopkins of Falling Sky Farm in Marshal Arkansas. Cody speaks on everything from the spark that inspired him (Joel Salatin and Michael Pollan) to his efforts to inspire others (leasing his own land to jump start interns who want to farm). Tune in for an in-depth conversation on what infrastructure is and isn’t there for a small sustainable farmer. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch: purveyors of fine grass-fed and finished beef from the California coast. Photo: Falling Sky Farm