Protein Sovereignty with the Cluster Cluck – Epi-3485
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What if there was a way to produce your own protein, gain all the soil improvement of pastured live stock and do so with 90% of the work being automated? There is! When I found Zack Smith and the “Cluster Cluck”, I knew I needed to get him on the show. Don’t miss this one it will be awesome.
Zack Smith is a 44 year-old farmer from northern Iowa who left his career working in big agriculture in 2021 to focus on his farm and further developing a new innovative regenerative agricultural production system that he calls Stock Cropping.
Stock Cropping integrates livestock back inside of crop fields in a unique and bio synergistic arrangement. This unique arrangement is made possible by Smith’s invention of the world’s first solar powered, autonomous, multi-species mobile livestock grazing barn which he affectionately calls the ClusterCluck 5000. Since 2020, he has designed and built 5 different ClusterCluck models.
Cluster clucks are designed not only for use cases in large commodity fields but also backyards, homesteads, orchards, vineyards, solar arrays or any other venue that seeks contained and safe autonomous movement of livestock across the landscape. Zack sees the centralization and concentration of control in agriculture as a threat to the future and while he dedicated the first half of his career dedicated to that path.
Zack intends on spending the rest of career trying to create opportunities for more people to become involved in growing healthy protein and crops rather than fewer. Zack has been married to his wife Mandee for the last 20 years and they will be empty nesters next fall as their daughters (18 and 19) will both be off to college. With their extra time they plan to build a year round greenhouse to grow more of their own food on their acreage to complement the protein they’ve been growing and processing themselves for the last 13 years.
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