
Greg Bloom
Owner
Barber's Foods
Denver, CO USA
“Keep your hands to the plow, keep your head down, and just bulldoze through it.”
Barber's Foods
Denver, CO USA
“Keep your hands to the plow, keep your head down, and just bulldoze through it.”
Owner
I lead a meat distribution company and have also made it my mission to reconnect people to their food.
I get to spend time traveling the world going to meat conferences and selling meat. When I'm not traveling, I go into the office to check in with my team and attend meetings about our tasks for the week. I also meet up with customers—chefs, food banks, and buyers—and work with them to answer any questions they have about where the meat comes from, what the farms are like, how it's processed, etc. I also spend time on content creation to help educate people and reconnect them to their food.
Here's the first step for high school students
There are so many career opportunities in agriculture but many people don't know about them because they grew up in big cities or are going to inner city schools. I encourage you to check out the land-grant university in your state instead. These schools have a wide variety of programs in food production, agriculture, plants, and animals. And if a four-year university isn't for you, find the community colleges that are connected to these schools and try out classes there.
"I'm not enjoying it here. I feel isolated. Maybe this industry isn't for me."