009: Anthony Anderson – Creating A Life Of Paradise
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2014
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Today we are talking with Anthony Anderson of Grow Paradise, a project dedicated to creating paradise in our current surroundings. Paradise creation can be applied to every aspect of our lives. Anthony is passionate about growing his own food (permaculture), homesteading and healthy living. He hosts Eco-Adventure Retreats on the Big Island of Hawaii.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Anthony’s health journey
- Dumpster diving and freeganism
- The hybridization of modern fruit
- Anthony’s previous struggle with bulimia
- The evolution of Anthony’s diet over the years and what he is currently eating
- The dangers of absolutes when it comes to diet
- Outside of food, other things Anthony does to maintain his health
- How simplicity can benefit your health
- The benefits of growing your own food
- How to grow next level plants
- How to produce healthy soil for your plants
- Healthy soil = healthy people
- The importance of organic crops and avoiding GMOs
- Homesteading and rocket mass heaters
- Anthony's food forest in Minnesota
- Anthony's upcoming Hawaiian Eco-Adventure Retreat
Related Links:
Grow Paradise's Hawaiian Eco-Adventure Retreat
Follow Anthony Anderson on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube
Climbing Coconuts In Hawaii (video)
Henry David Thoreau - Walden (book)
Nature's First Law: The Raw-Food Diet (book)
The Man Who Planted Trees (video)
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034: Frank Giglio – ReWild Your Life | Eat Local & Thrive | Deep Nutrition With Fermented Foods
040: Ruth Tal – Eat, Juice, Sweat, Thrive | Fresh Restaurants | Fuelled By Passion + Plants
089: Dr. Josh Axe – Eat Dirt • Leaky Gut Is The Root Cause Of All Disease • Soil-Based Organisms
227: Andy Couturier – The Abundance Of Less • Enjoying The Process • Thinking For Yourself
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome in the ninth episode of the Ultimate Health Podcast. My name's Jesse Chappas and I'm here with my co-host |
| 0:16.8 | Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:18.3 | Hi everyone today we have Anthony Anderson on the show |
| 0:24.0 | Anthony is great. This is an amazing interview. |
| 0:25.0 | We talk about his health journey and how things have changed over the years. |
| 0:30.0 | We discuss his diet and again how that's evolved to where he's currently at. |
| 0:35.0 | We talk about his food forest he grew in Minnesota and it's pretty amazing what he's done there. |
| 0:42.0 | He's created an area where he grows a lot of his own food |
| 0:46.0 | he's got a greenhouse that he put together himself and it just sounds really impressive so |
| 0:51.9 | you're gonna learn a lot about growing food, |
| 0:54.8 | mineralizing soil and how to have the best soil ever. |
| 0:58.8 | And you're also going to hear about his company now, grow Paradise, and some of the upcoming retreats |
| 1:05.3 | he's going to be doing in Hawaii. |
| 1:07.0 | And you're just going to really get a good feel |
| 1:08.7 | for who Anthony is and what he's all about. |
| 1:10.9 | He's really personable. |
| 1:12.4 | And it's a great show. Yeah, enjoy it guys. Go check out Grow Paradise |
| 1:17.2 | dot com that's Anthony's website and for the show notes head over to |
| 1:22.2 | ultimate health podcast.com |
| 1:24.4 | slash zero zero nine |
| 1:27.0 | so here's Anthony Anderson |
| 1:29.6 | hello Anthony and welcome to the ultimate health podcast. We're so excited to have you on today's show. |
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