Podcasts about falling sky farm

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

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.”

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