Pastured Poultry Talk

Anna Bassett, Lead Technical Advisor for Animal Welfare Approved (AWA), joins host Grady Phelan to talk about the fundamentals of AWA certification. The AWA standards start with pasture and range. No dirt lot and confinement birds here. Think AWA certification might be for you? Listen up. Resources Animal Welfare Approved Mike Badger Grady Phelan

At the Stone Barns Poultry School in March 2015, Mike Badger caught up with poultry author and homesteader Harvey Ussery. Harvey discusses sustainable poultry, the clan mating system, and the allure of adding heritage breeds to your flock, even for market producers. Resources and Links Using the Clan Mating System (at The Modern Homestead) Grady Phelan Mike Badger

Patricia Foreman, chicken activist and author, joins Pastured Poultry Talk to discuss the importance of having chickens in your life. She's chicken taught and passionate. Pat talks about: The multi-purpose chicken as meat, eggs, fertilizer, topsoil, compost, herbiciders and insectiders Chicken stimulus package Chickens as therapy and pets with benefits Why we should be thinking about front-yard chickens Chicken Underground--better get your drones out This episode was recorded at the Poultry School at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture on March 28-29, 2015. Resources City Chicks Gossamer Foundation APPPA Grady Phelan Mike Badger

Get to know your hosts, Grady Phelan and Mike Badger in the premiere episode of Pastured Poultry Talk. This podcast aims to inspire pastured poultry producers to build better businesses, solve problems, and integrate new ideas. There's just not a lot of public information, especially in podcast format, about raising poultry on pasture for producers. Grady and Mike aim to change that by bringing you perspectives from around the community. Grady shares his four point perspective about what pastured poultry means in terms of poultry, pasture, people, and the local economy. We learn a bit out Grady and Mike's pastured poultry adventures and discover that both hosts have started their own poultry breeding programs. Grady is raising Delaware chickens, and Mike is raising Beltsville Small White turkeys. We want to hear from you. Email your questions and show ideas to pasturedpoultrytalk@gmail.com.