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    Explore "pasture raised" with insightful episodes like "Episode 108: The Facts about California's Proposition 12 with Judith McGeary of Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance", "Episode 103: Grass Fed Cows Make the Best Ice Cream with Alec Jaffe of Alec's Ice Cream", "Episode 101: A Chicken Farm Good for the Chickens & the Planet with Ryan Miller of Farmers Hen House", "Episode 098: Eagle Yu: Meat and Essentials Butcher Shop" and "Daily Life of the Seven Brothers" from podcasts like ""The Appropriate Omnivore with Aaron Zober", "The Appropriate Omnivore with Aaron Zober", "The Appropriate Omnivore with Aaron Zober", "The Appropriate Omnivore with Aaron Zober" and "Can We Feed the World with Regenerative Farming?"" and more!

    Episodes (11)

    Episode 108: The Facts about California's Proposition 12 with Judith McGeary of Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance

    Episode 108: The Facts about California's Proposition 12 with Judith McGeary of Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance
    Aaron Zober welcomes back Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance (FARFA) founder and executive Judith McGeary for her third visit to The Appropriate Omnivore. As FARFA supports common sense agricultural policies, Judith weighs in on California’s Proposition 12. Prop 12 goes into effect at the beginning of 2022. The initiative will prohibit farm owners and operators from knowingly causing any covered animal to be confined in a cruel manner. Judith is here to answer any questions about how the proposition will affect the livestock industry. How do the big meat producers feel about it? Will it have any effect on small pasture based farms? Will we really be having meat shortages like we’re hearing about? Judith McGeary address all of these issues and more.

    Episode 103: Grass Fed Cows Make the Best Ice Cream with Alec Jaffe of Alec's Ice Cream

    Episode 103: Grass Fed Cows Make the Best Ice Cream with Alec Jaffe of Alec's Ice Cream
    Aaron Zober celebrates National Ice Cream Month on his podcast by bringing on Alec Jaffe, founder and CEO of Alec’s Ice Cream. Alec gets into how he made ice cream in the first place and what led to forming his business. Aaron and Alec both agree that grass fed ice cream still largely untapped market in the natural foods world. Alec makes his grass fed ice cream stand out from the other by targeting the more demanding customers of premium ice creams whereas other ice creams are devoted to kids. Alec explains what he looks for in farms to partner with, all the ways his company is sustainable, and what we can expect from Alec’s Ice Cream in the future.

    Episode 101: A Chicken Farm Good for the Chickens & the Planet with Ryan Miller of Farmers Hen House

    Episode 101: A Chicken Farm Good for the Chickens & the Planet with Ryan Miller of Farmers Hen House
    One of Aaron’s favorite foods has always been eggs. Like all foods, Aaron looks for the most sustainable. He brings on Ryan Miller, co-owner and president of Farmers Hen House, which is one of Aaron’s favorite pasture raised eggs. Farmers Hen House is sustainable in many ways from its eggs being organic and pasture raised to the solar power on the farms to even its compostable cartons. Another amazing feature of Farmers Hen House is its QR codes on the cartons, which uses a blockchain technology to trace where the eggs came from. Plus Ryan lets the listeners know all about the different certifications Farmers Hen House and what we can expect from them in the future.

    Episode 098: Eagle Yu: Meat and Essentials Butcher Shop

    Episode 098: Eagle Yu: Meat and Essentials Butcher Shop
    One of the grow trends in sustainable meat are butcher shops. Eagle Yu of the upcoming Los Angeles butcher shop Meat and Essentials joins Aaron on the Appropriate Omnivore podcast. Eagle tells the listeners all about how he got into butchery in the first place and what people can expect at his shop. Eagle delves into where he'll be sourcing his meats from. Aaron and Eagle share in what they think makes meat sustainable in terms of local and regional farms, practices of how the livestock is raised, and regenerative agriculture certifications. Aaron and Eagle then get into what they hope will be the future of sustainable meats and butcher shops where you can buy them.

    Daily Life of the Seven Brothers

    Daily Life of the Seven Brothers

    Hitzfield Brothers: Seven Sons

    Eat with confidence while you enjoy pasture-raised meats delivered to your door direct from our Indiana farm. https://sevensons.net/ 🚚

    In this episode we will take an inside look into the lives of all seven brothers (yes, there really are 7 brothers) and their roles on the farm! The Hitzfield brothers have adopted Michael Hyatt’s (Founder of Michael Hyatt & Co / leadership speaker and book author) philosophy on how to identify one’s unique strengths, weaknesses, passions, and drudgery zones, and how to incorporate those characteristics into a fulfilling career to match each individual’s position here at the farm.


    Summary:
    - Blake (1st son): Oversees livestock operations, production, and soil health.
    - Blaine (2nd son): Leads our marketing ventures and creating a way to get product to your home.
    - Brice (3rd son): Creator of Hengear (poultry equipment) and supports our poultry operations.
    - Brock (4th son): Design & branding lead (boxes, labels, pamphlets, podcast videos, etc).
    - Brooks (5th son): Co-founder / C.O.O. of E-commerce software system (GrazeCart).
    - Bruce (6th son): Lead poultry operations / laying hen management (1400+ hens on our farm).
    - Brandt (7th son): Supply chain manager.

    2022 Summer Farm Update

    2022 Summer Farm Update

    Farm Update:

    Eat with confidence while you enjoy pasture-raised meats delivered to your door direct from our Indiana farm. https://sevensons.net/ 🚚

    After a busy few months on the farm, we are back into the office and have created a 2022 Summer update on what we have been doing and where we plan to go in the upcoming months!

    Summary:

    • Added 1,300 sheep on our farm!
    • Public summer farm tours!
    • Bison harvest
    • Storm / wind damage on hoop houses (98mph winds)
    • New baby! (Blaine and his wife welcomed their 6th in Feb)

    Coming Soon:

    • New pond
    • New fencing
    • Farm Fest (Sept 24th)

    Overcoming the Challenges Facing Pasture Poultry with Mike Badger, APPPA

    Overcoming the Challenges Facing Pasture Poultry with Mike Badger, APPPA

    In this episode of the Direct Farm Podcast, we're excited to welcome back Mike Badger, Executive Director of the American Pasture Poultry Producers Association. Listen as Mike talks about how APPPA has been working to provide American Pasture Poultry Producers the resources they need to overcome the unique challenges they face as poultry Farmers.

    Show notes:
    https://apppa.org/
    https://www.barn2door.com/resources

    Healthy Cows, Happy Gut with Cody Hopkins of Grass Roots Cooperative

    Healthy Cows, Happy Gut with Cody Hopkins of Grass Roots Cooperative

    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.

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    Episode 092: Judith McGeary: The PRIME Act

    Episode 092: Judith McGeary: The PRIME Act
    The Appropriate Omnivore continues its coverage of access to real food during the COVID-19 pandemic, Aaron turns to the topic of meat shortages. One way meat shortages can be avoided is a bill proposed in Congress a while back called the Processing Revival and Intrastate Meat Exemption (PRIME) Act. The PRIME Act allows farms access to custom slaughterhouses, which currently only people such as hunters and homesteaders can legally use. Aaron brings on Judith McGeary, an attorney, activist, and sustainable livestock farmer in Texas. Judith is also founder and director of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance, which supports common sense agricultural policies such as the PRIME Act. FARFA has been pushing for the PRIME Act since it was first introduced by Congress in 2015. Judith explains the problem with the current system of meat processing plants and how things would be changed by passing the PRIME Act. As a farmer herself, Judith has witnessed the long waits to get her livestock into the processing facilities. Aaron and Judith delve into the general safety concerns with meat processing. With overall concerns of safety during the pandemic, that's another reason to pass the PRIME Act. Aaron also takes some time to ask Judith her thoughts on the Farm System Reform Act, which would ban factory farms.

    Episode 086: Pamela Shoenfeld: The Collagen Diet

    Episode 086: Pamela Shoenfeld: The Collagen Diet
    Pamela Schoenfeld, author of the book "The Collagen Diet", makes an appearance with Aaron Zober to discuss everything about the hot product on the natural foods market which is collagen and all of its health benefits. Pamela explains that people don't necessarily need to consume the collagen protein powders in order to get the needed amount of collagen in their diet and mentions some of the foods they can consume instead. But if they decide collagen powders are the way to go, Aaron asks Pamela about her thoughts on what to look for and some questions on specific collagen products currently available. Additionally, Pamela lets the listeners know more about her practice Women and Family Nutrition and The Weston A. Price Foundation where she serves on the board handling government relations.

    Episode 085: Glen Burrows of The Ethical Butcher on the Documentary Game Changers

    Episode 085: Glen Burrows of The Ethical Butcher on the Documentary Game Changers
    Glen Burrows of the upcoming grass fed meat delivery service The Ethical Butcher joins Aaron Zober as they discuss their thoughts on the recent documentary The Game Changers, which athletes supposedly say they thrived on a vegan diet. Glen breaks down all of the major arguments in the documentary, proving how flawed each and every one of them is. Starting with discussing the trailer which says Roman Gladiators were vegetarians, he explains what the gladiators were really like. Glen points out that the documentary is careful not to say vegan, but plant based instead. But what does plant based really mean? Glen talks about how he researched all of the athletes in Game Changers and found out which ones of them are still on a vegan diet. He gets into the ridiculous studies in the film. And Glen and Aaron talk about how The Game Changers is wrong by saying all meat is bad for the planet and why we should be eating grass fed beef instead products like Beyond Meat or The Impossible Burger.