178: Paul Greive - Hatching the Pasture-Raised Poultry Revolution

The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin

Dr. Anthony Gustin

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🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Paul Greive is a USMC War Veteran and the co-founder of Pasturebird, the world’s largest daily-move pastured poultry operation. He also helped launch Primal Pastures, a direct-to-consumer regenerative organic farm in southern California.

Paul chats with Dr. Anthony Gustin about how he got into farming, why he credits Lyme disease for kicking off his interest in regenerative agriculture, and how his startups were born.

They also discuss the importance of raising animals in their natural pasture habitat, both for the environment and the added nutritional benefits.

Paul then explains the difference between pasture-raised, cage-free, and free-range chickens. Then he and Dr. Gustin talk about why geese are totally underrated in the US.

You’ll even hear how Pasturebird uses the largest land-based electric vehicles in the world to help their chickens automatically move a full spot every 24 hours.

Tune in to the episode to discover more about:

The challenges of scaling pasture-raised poultry

The major cost drivers of getting chicken from the pasture to your table
Biomimicry and the next big wave in ag tech
A better financing model for regenerative farming, including tokenization and fractional ownership of farmlands
Paul’s thoughts on the Farm Bill and other government programs and regulations

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Paul Greive’s direct-to-consumer regenerative organic farm Primal Pastures
Paul’s pasture-raised poultry company Pasturebird
Paul’s LinkedIn
Paul’s mentor Joel Salatin
Find your local pasture-raised farm at Getrealchicken.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Natural State podcast. I am your host Dr. Anthony Guston. It is
0:10.2	my belief that the natural state of penny living organisms' health and that our artificial
0:14.5	habitat has forced us into having artificial health problems. This show is my attempt to
0:18.7	dive deep and learn about using nutrition, sleep, movement, relationships and more to help
0:23.8	you reclaim your natural state of health in a modern world and show you how to thrive
0:27.8	in an environment that stacked against you. If you enjoyed today's show, you can find
0:31.3	out more details and information at Dr. Anthony Guston.com.
0:36.2	Today I welcome one of my good friends Paul Greve on the podcast. Paul is the founder and
0:41.3	CEO of Pasture Bird, the world's largest pastured poultry operation in the United States. He
0:49.1	also started Primal Pastures, one of the coolest farms that I have seen in operation that
0:53.6	is doing everything, sort of top the line in Southern California near San Diego. And Paul
0:59.3	and I get into quite a lot today about poultry, what to look for, how he thought about bringing
1:06.7	expertise to the poultry industry. And if you follow my work, at all you'll notice that
1:13.1	I talk quite a lot about how putting quote regenerative doesn't mean much with pastured
1:18.3	pork and chicken when they're fed large industrial crops like corn and soy. And we get into
1:24.0	that quite a lot with all and how he chose feed with pastured animals and how you create
1:30.8	bridge for consumers and corporations to get on board. And yeah, everyone needs to contribute
1:37.2	in some way. And Pasture Bird has done a phenomenal job getting more animals on land, which I
1:42.0	cannot fault at all. This is an amazing, amazing company and Paul is amazing guys. He'll be
1:47.0	able to tell to us also just future the food system. What he is looking towards, how he
1:52.3	experiments with a small family farm still. And yeah, we need a little bit on geese as well.
1:57.6	So the food geese, this is going to be a podcast for you. Otherwise tune in, enjoy and hope
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