Chrissie Manion Zaerpoor is a former Intel Corp engineering manager who founded Kookoolan Farms with her husband in 2005. The farm specializes in 100% grass-fed, grass-finished beef and lamb, pasture-raised organic-fed chickens for meat and eggs, and sustainably-wild-caught seafood in quantities for the home freezer. She is also an award-winning mead maker and the self-published author of "The Art of Mead Tasting and Food Pairing."
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In this episode, Chrissie and Maxwell discuss creating new last names, owning an organic farm, natural food products, Kookoolan Farms - 2005, grass-fed beef and lamb, wild-caught salmon, pasture raised chicken, everything sold at the farm - not in stores, organic certification is expensive, engineering at Intel Corporation, 5 degrees between Koorosh and Chrissie in physics, engineering, and math, switching careers, following your dream, falling in love at your job, high risk takers, trying to find land for the farm, horse breeding facilities, opportunity is what you make it, “If you ain’t got water, you ain’t got nothin”, moving chickens in a Toyota sedan, moving a cow in a pickup truck, network of “handshake” agreements, organic vs. commodity, raising healthy animals that enjoy their life, climate change, carbon effects, deforestation, methane gas, monoculture crops, subsidies to corporations, antibiotics in factory farm meat, water retention due to antibiotic use, the book “Big Chicken”, labels on egg cartons, cage free, vegetarian fed, birds are not vegetarian, better quality food costs more to grow, bodies need nutrients - not just calories, Kookoolan animals only have one bad day, knowing where your food comes from, having a relationship with your food, best beef cuts and ossobuco.
