Designing a Next-Level Chicken Coop

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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It’s chicken season! As the founders of Coop, Jordan Barnes and AJ Forsythe are avid chicken farmers, and they have eggs coming out of their ears. Listen to them discuss the differences between homegrown, farm fresh eggs and mass-produced eggs. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3JGT1sa Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3y1dEfX Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/44sDxSf EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3Qt9UKE Learn More. 14 Ways Backyard Chicken Save Your Garden and the WorldConnect With Jordan Barnes:Jordan: Jordan is the co-founder and creative force behind Coop. She brings an unconventional wealth of expertise to the world of agtech, with Coop's mission to blend innovation with tradition, making high-tech farming both accessible and delightful. You can usually find her whipping up gourmet meals for her favorite hens, 4 Rhode Island Reds, with a spicy ranch water in hand.AJ Forsythe: AJ is the co-founder and original visionary behind coop, on a mission building the world's largest decentralized food production network. His journey from beekeeping to winemaking led to founding the world's largest on-demand repair and trade-in network, and earning a spot on Forbes 30 Under 30. His passion for chickens started accidentally when he rescued a chicken from a meat market in LA and brought it back to Cal Poly on the train. Instagram Website Shop the StoreAs an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let's talk.
0:03.0	talk.
0:04.0	The chicken.
0:05.0	Let's talk.
0:07.0	Let's talk chickens my friends just vibe out. Let's just enjoy the life in times of being a chicken keeper. We have Jordan and A.J back on the. They are the co-founders of Coop, which is a smart chickicoo. I've said that every episode. We haven't really talked about the co-op itself much. And when you look at it, it does look a bit different than let's say your your
0:34.8	average chicken coop and so maybe I thought we could start with you know AJ obviously
0:38.6	you've been keeping chickens for 15 years Jordan five or six where did the idea to do this even come from?
0:45.5	Like why Bill this marching coup?
0:47.0	Totally.
0:47.3	So I got into raising chickens when I was in college
0:50.2	and I was in Chinatown in LA, and I saw like four live chickens for sale for five dollars each and I'm like they were they were meat chickens so I paid $20 jumped on the Amtrak train and went home and built my first chicken coop out of a dresser
1:06.4	I got for free on Craigslist and said that the first coop I ever built was out of a dresser
1:11.6	under my apartment complex deck.
1:14.7	And like fast forward, both Jordan and I
1:18.1	come from a tech background.
1:19.8	We spent about 10 years in Silicon Valley doing the tech startup thing.
1:23.8	We worked together at our last company, which was doing nationwide smart home installation.
1:28.8	So I think Nest cameras Arlo Ring, etc.
1:32.3	And so I've always been fascinated with the idea of
1:36.2	of smart home technology paired with like backyard agriculture and how do you
1:40.3	how do you bring the two together to make it easy for anyone to raise chickens.
1:44.4	And so we brought on the head designer of a nasty guy named Fred Bold who's absolutely fantastic,
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