The Regenaissance Podcast

Gunthorp Farms is a 3rd generation pork and poultry operation in northern Indiana with on-farm USDA-inspected processing. This tour covers the full farm from farrowing paddocks to kill floor, smokehouse, and wastewater treatment. Watch alongside the full podcast episode for the full story.

Key Topics
  • Adaptive multi-paddock grazing in practice
  • 50-paddock farrowing system and piglet management
  • Building and running a USDA-inspected on-farm processing facility
  • USDA enforcement: how small and large plants are treated differently
  • Constructed wetland wastewater treatment
What You'll Learn
  • How paddock size and recovery time shift by season
  • What to ask when you visit a pig farm
  • What it costs to build on-farm processing and where permitting breaks down
  • How HACCP regulation actually gives small plants flexibility if you understand it
  • Why scale changes food safety risk in ways inspection policy doesn't reflect

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Full podcast interview
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Timestamps

00:00:00 Adaptive multi-paddock grazing explained
 00:03:00 Pig health, thermoregulation, and antibiotic-free management
 00:05:00 What consumers should ask when visiting a pig farm
 00:15:00 Energy-free waterers and farrowing paddock design
 00:27:00 Kill floor overview and processing plant history
 00:36:00 Permitting, wastewater, and navigating USDA regulation
 00:45:00 Food safety: small vs large plant accountability
 00:51:00 USDA enforcement disparities and advocacy
 01:02:00 Packaging equipment walkthrough
 01:13:00 Smokehouse construction and constructed wetland wastewater system

What is The Regenaissance Podcast?

Hosted by @Regenaisanceman with the mission of reconnecting us back to where our food is grown & exposing everything that is wrong with our broken food system. We are more disconnected from our food than we ever have been. I sit down with ranchers and farmers to give them a voice and hear their stories, helping paint a picture of what it really looks like to support humanity with food. I also will be talking to others involved in the agriculture space as there is a lot that goes into it all. My hope is that from hearing this podcast you will begin to question what you eat and where from.