FF001: Welcome to the Fighting Farmer Podcast with Terrell Spencer

Pastured Poultry Talk

Terrell Spencer (we just call him Spence) joins the Pastured Poultry Talk network to chat about farm life. Spence is a full-time pastured poultry farmer at Across the Creek Farm near Fayetteville, Arkansas. The “Fighting Farmer”is rooted in the fact that Spence is a veteran of the Army, and farming often seems like a fight. Perseverance is key. In this initial episode, we meet Spence and talk about the goals of the podcast. In a nutshell, he wants people to have a realistic view of what it takes to farm and to give back to the community as a distribution hub of information and community. As the broiler season winds down in Northwest Arkansas, we chat about:

• A problem at the market makes it hard to sell ducks for Thanksgiving
• Those problems inspire some farm projects
• Shelter designs at Across the Creek Farm
• Why broiler production is seasonal

Fighting Farmer will be a twice-monthly feature of Pastured Poultry Talk where Spence talks through the farm updates for his customers and for his peers. He's a first generation farmer, and he's appeared on the podcast before as a co-host and as a guest (PPT039, PPT038, PPT037, PPT035, PPT010).