Anya Fernald: Building Belcampo, Carbon Impact Positive Farming, and the Ability to Pivot in a World Where Industrial Meat Can't
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Anya Fernald is the co-founder of Belcampo, a farm-to-table supply chain complete with regenerative farm, full service butcher shops, and restaurants. She is an entrepreneur, chef, and agriculture expert. And when we say “entrepreneur” there isn’t enough time in the day to go over all of the incredible things Anya had founded and done in her career prior to Belcampo. From founding a cheese co-op in Italy that led to micro-financing and investing in small family businesses, to founding Live Culture, Eat Real, Slow Food, to being asked by Alice Waters to serve as the Executive Director of Slow Food Nation in the bay area.
She also managed to write a cookbook called Home Cooked, and serve as a judge and sustainable food expert on Iron Chef from 2009-2015. She was named Food and Wine 40 Under 40, and one of the top 100 female founders in INC Magazine. She also runs “Meat Camp”. Which might be the single greatest thing we have ever heard.
We get into all the details of Anya's past that have led up to her success today, proving that Belcampo and regenerative farming is a model that can work and even thrive in our world of industrial meat and confinement farming.
For more info on Anya, check out the Belcampo website and follow her and Belcampo on their Instagram channels.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:08.3 | And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | You got it. |
| 0:13.5 | You're going to stop it. |
| 0:16.4 | This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by Paleo Valley Beefsticks. |
| 0:21.6 | Beefsticks. |
| 0:22.6 | Paleo Valley Beefsticks are the only beef sticks in the USA. |
| 0:26.4 | Did you know this, Kelly? |
| 0:27.2 | Made from 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beefs, and organic spices that is also naturally fermented. |
| 0:34.4 | Did you know this? |
| 0:35.6 | So check this out. |
| 0:36.5 | One of the reasons I love this thing. I love these beef sticks |
| 0:39.5 | is that we have been |
| 0:41.4 | I don't know brainwashed as |
| 0:44.2 | children to love things like slim jims. |
| 0:48.2 | Like it's so good. I grew up eating |
| 0:50.6 | like charcutory kind of things. Vois salad in |
| 0:53.3 | Germany. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeager, right? Remember those little meat six? Those little mini sausages, yeah. The thing is, all of those things are just crap. They are just full of crap. I mean, they, like, corn-based citric acid, which we've talked about before, encapsulated high-jarninated oils. It's just gnarly. And what's so great about this is that this is all-world meat-making at its best. And it's like a superfood. I mean, honestly, this is one of the things that will make your coat shiny, make your skin better, and it's an easy way to just get in some of those protein macros, which I actually struggle with every day, except for today. |
| 1:40.9 | You know, and one of the things I love about these beef sticks as a busy working mom is that at any time, no matter what bag or purse I'm carrying, you can always find a beef stick or two because it's the perfect snack to have in case of emergency. |
| 1:46.2 | And in my, in my case, instead of eating an entire bag of popcorn you know a small small point of order here because i were such fans of the beef sticks our podcast director |
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