#93 - Jason & Kristina Walker @ Starwalker Organic Farms

On this episode, we have Jason & Kristina Walker who are the Founders and Owners of Starwalker Organic Farms.

Starwalker Organic Farms produces various beef, pork, and chicken products on a 3,000-acre Regenerative Organic Certified® farm in Northern California. They’re one of the biggest producers of organic pork in the United States, and they sell their regenerative organic products wholesale, direct-to-consumer, and through their branded CPG SKUs. The family also owns and operates a certified organic processing facility with slaughter, cut, and value-added operations serving their farm and many others in the community.

In this episode, Jason and Kristina give us the low down on how they’re producing the world’s first Regenerative Organic Certified pork, educate us on how essential processing is in building market access for regenerative farmers, and share the inside scoop on what is coming from their family of operations in the future.

Safe to say the Walkers are doing a lot, and we really enjoyed getting the behind-the-scenes view into all the ways they’re pushing to produce, process, and market regenerative food.  

Episode Highlights:

🏗️ Building vertically integrated regen organic beef & pork value chains

😯 Raising 4,000 pigs on pasture

🐷 Producing the 1st Regenerative Organic Certified® pork

🛒 Launching their ROC™ beef jerky in Sprouts nationwide

🚀 The one big contract that changed everything

😡 The difficulty in finding certified organic meat processing

↗️ Going from wholesale to DTC to CPG

💰 Working with Mad Capital to fund their farming operations

👀 New ROC™ pork and beef products coming soon

👉 How distributors and retailers need to step up for regen

Links:

Starwalker Organic Farms

Regenerative Organic Certified®

The Dorito Effect

Mad Capital

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