Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally starting now. I'm Dr. Aviva Ral. Some of us find our path early on in life, whether due to adversity, chance, or some fire in the soul.

For me, food activism was my entry point into all I do now as a midwife, herbalist, and

MD, as well as how I raised my kids and live my life day to day.

It was learning the connections between Agra Business, the military industrial complex, and pharma

to food disparities around the world poverty and disease that led me on my path and food activists like

my old friend who was the co-founder of Food Not Bombs, Francis Morlepei and her book

Diet for a Small Planet, and Susan George's Book,

How the Other Half Dies, that started me on a path

that took me to the first organic farm in Vermont,

where I eventually got together with my husband,

to Lakota Reservation in South Dakota where tribe members were taking back

their land from white ranchers and growing the food that was almost impossible to get on the reservation

and reclaim

traditional practices that are gentler on the earth

free us from depending on Agra and Pharma

and put the power back in our hands

around our health and food while connecting us

to our deep roots on the earth. My guest today also got a fire in her soul early on in life

that shaped her work and helped her to become the leading food

activist she is today. Leah Peneman is a Black Crayol farmer, author, mother, and

food justice activist who's been tending the soil and organizing for an

anti-racist food system for over 20 years.

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