Local Farming 101 | How To Effectively Raise And Sell Meat In Your Community
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
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🗓️ 8 April 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
What are the benefits of buying your meat from a local farm? In this episode, we sit down with Sebastien Bonneu to discuss his farming practices, and why farm-raised meat is generally better tasting – and better for you – than meat from a factory.
Sebastien runs Countryside Farm, a farm based in Cedar Creek, Texas that raises, processes, and sells birds, rabbits, and wild hogs.
Raised on a farm outside of Bordeaux, France, Sebastien cut his teeth sustainably farming with his parents – who are both chefs. Since then, he has brought his own family to a plot of land outside of Austin to put his knowledge and skills to the test…
Join us now to find out:
- What makes turkeys a good type of bird to raise and eat.
- How long it takes to raise a duck to sell for meat.
- What a typical customer buys from Countryside Farm.
- How animals are transported from farm to consumer.
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Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
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| 0:00.0 | Well, as a smaller farm, we gotta make the difference on the quality on the product, |
| 0:04.4 | is we wanna compete from bigger enterprise. So, I have two breeder TFK, I have some |
| 0:11.3 | nirritage gold, I only have some hands of that, and we do a red bourbon, which is like a yeah, |
| 0:17.0 | an old grade. One of the good things about using a research breed is like DC or we add |
| 0:23.6 | watching older eggs. So, I can keep 20 hand TFK and a few times, and I've been a potential |
| 0:34.0 | of between seven or eight hundred eggs every year. Forget frequently asked questions. How about |
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| 1:10.8 | Richard Jacobs. Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast, |
| 1:19.2 | now part of the Finding Genius Foundation. My guest today is a Sebastian Bono. He's the founder |
| 1:24.1 | of Countryside Farm. Visit him about a month ago here in Texas and we had a really good time |
| 1:29.6 | and he has a very, very gracious host. They got to see all the livestock that he's growing. |
| 1:34.0 | So we're going to talk about that today. So Sebastian, thank you for coming. |
| 1:37.6 | Thank you. Thank you for having us. Yeah, tell me a bit about your background. |
| 1:41.0 | I believe you're from France. How did you come over to the US and get started on this farm? |
| 1:45.8 | When I moved over here, I did an apprenticeship in France like a baking and pastry apprenticeship |
| 1:52.8 | and I moved out an opportunity to move to Texas. So I just came down, walk over here in a |
| 2:00.6 | back shop for about a year and then I moved and I moved to Austin. I walked north and |
| 2:07.2 | around for about 10, 12 years, something like that. And when we came to the point, |
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