If you're going down the homestead and journey, you get into the world of

animal husbandry in some way at some point. It's just a natural progression.

Of course, you're growing your own plants and fruits and

vegetables and you think should I be sourcing my own meat. We were talking with Katie

Krashe, the homesteading RD, on her 240 acre property. One of the big reasons she

wanted to do it was to have access to hunting but also

has been raising meat chickens or meat birds for quite some time, which is something I haven't

gotten into myself. Not that I'm against it. It's just something that on my space with the time and sort of lifestyle I have right now, I haven't dived into it.

So if this is a topic that's interesting to you, then go ahead and listen.

If not, maybe tune in tomorrow and no harm no foul but I'm curious how this how this began for you it this is something that you were doing on the five acre property right

definitely yes we did it for probably seven years while we were on the five acres.

And you know I think what's interesting about your background obviously you have the registered dietician background and the story of kind of troubleshooting the surface level problems in that

career path and then going to this functional path afterwards could we maybe just

start with the fundamental difference between a home raised

sort of properly raised Meat Bird and the thing I might go get from Tyson

at the grocery store?

Absolutely. I would love to and that's exactly what led me to raising them by myself.

I never would have thought that I would be here raising meat chickens and all of that because I'm a very, I'm an animal lover at heart you know and ultimately what happened is you know I was I got to buying organic chicken at the store and I felt pretty good about that. I was like yes this is probably

what I'm envisioning is what I'm getting and then started to go down the rabbit hole of

huh organic chicken really doesn't mean much besides the fact that they're eating organic grain,

but they're still in a building, their whole lives, crammed in there, no sunlight, no greens,

right? It's weird because like just saying organic. there, no sunlight, no greens, access to the outdoors.

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