137-Food Freedom Through Foraging: How and Why Rob Greenfield Lived Off the Land for an Entire Year
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🗓️ 2 January 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever thought about living exclusively off the land for an entire year? Likely not considering how much of our daily lives revolve around food. For those of us who garden, our passion can also provide food freedom through foraging and harvesting up a healthy bounty for our table. Even so, most of the foods we all eat are heavily-processed, have traveled thousands of miles, and generate a heaping helping of trash. These are the issues which weigh heavily on the mind of today's guest, Rob Greenfield.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover |
| 0:08.7 | everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required. |
| 0:13.1 | And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, |
| 0:18.5 | Joe Lample. |
| 0:19.5 | Hi everybody, this is Joe Lample, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe |
| 0:23.1 | Gardner Show. |
| 0:24.1 | Well, today we have a really fun conversation with a guy that I became aware of. |
| 0:29.1 | Several years back, just checking out YouTube, and this video came up, I think I was looking |
| 0:34.3 | for some show idea for my television show, Growing a Greener World, and I was searching |
| 0:39.2 | for sustainability leaders or something like that. |
| 0:42.0 | Anyway, this guy, Rob Greenfield, came up in a video, and the image on the video just |
| 0:48.2 | drew me in. |
| 0:49.2 | So I started watching it, and I'm thinking, this guy is amazing. |
| 0:53.4 | Just the projects that he's doing, he seems like the guy next door, but he's doing some |
| 0:57.9 | amazing things to raise awareness for environmental stewardship, food insecurity, growing your |
| 1:03.8 | own food, and all the things that I stand for, and my company stands for, and my television |
| 1:09.3 | stands for, and I thought, I've got to get this guy into an episode for Growing a Greener |
| 1:14.1 | World. |
| 1:15.1 | Well, life gets in the way at that point, and so that hasn't happened yet. |
| 1:19.2 | But then recently I've been meeting with my team about our editorial calendar for the |
| 1:22.5 | podcast, and his name came to my mind, because I knew I hadn't done the television |
| 1:27.8 | show, but I thought, well, surely I'll just, it'll be easier to get him for an interview, |
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