161: Taylor Collins - Using Regenerative Agriculture to Bring Ecosystems Back to Life
The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin
Dr. Anthony Gustin
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🗓️ 21 November 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Taylor Collins, founder of EPIC Provisions, discusses his and his wife's journey from being vegetarian endurance athletes to creating a meat-based protein bar and how they eventually started their own regenerative agriculture farm.
When you tune into this episode, you’ll also hear how their regenerative ag practices are transforming ecosystems, why they don’t operate with a business plan and what they do instead, and what it’s like to raise two daughters on the farm.
Taylor also shares with Dr. Anthony Gustin what the next five years look like for them and how this incredible journey has changed their entire outlook.
If you’re not familiar with Taylor Collins, he's the founder behind EPIC Provisions, a high-protein, all-meat snack and the farmer and founder behind Roam Ranch, a regenerative agriculture farm in Texas that aims to produce nourishing meat and heal ecosystems.
In this episode, you’ll hear about the following topics:
- Taylor's background and how they became first generation ranchers
- What he's noticed since reconnecting with the land
- Taylor's health journey from following dietary norms and doing endurance races to experiencing inflammation and joint pain and how they healed themselves
- How Taylor's company EPIC Provisions came about
- How Taylor operates without a business plan and what that looked like
- How Taylor brought a barren piece of farmland in Texas back to life
- What’s destroying our land and what can be done to fix things
- Is it necessary to eat animals to restore natural resources?
- Seeing life as a transfer of energy
- How consumers yield the power for changing the health of our planet
- How a dried out creek on their property was transformed into its former flowing glory thanks to their regenerative agriculture practices
- How plant species have dramatically changed on their farm
- How the insects fared on their farm using their regenerative ag practices
- What the next five years look like for Taylor and Katie
Mentioned in This Episode
- Taylor Collins’ Epic Provisions website
- Taylor’s Roam Ranch website
- Taylor Collins’ Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube channel
- Allan Savory’s TedTalk, How to fight desertification and reverse climate change
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Natural State podcast. I am your host Dr. Anthony Guston. It is |
| 0:10.2 | my belief that the natural state of penny living organisms' health and that our artificial |
| 0:14.5 | habitat has forced us into having artificial health problems. This show is my attempt to |
| 0:18.7 | dive deep and learn about using nutrition, sleep, movement, relationships and more to help |
| 0:23.8 | you reclaim your natural state of health in a modern world and show you how to thrive |
| 0:27.8 | in an environment that stacked against you. If you enjoyed today's show, you can find |
| 0:31.3 | out more details and information at Dr. Anthony Guston.com. Today I am honored to welcome Taylor |
| 0:37.5 | Collins to the podcast. Taylor is a friend of mine who has been a huge inspiration over |
| 0:42.7 | the last three to four years, especially as I've gotten more into retirement and better |
| 0:46.0 | culture, but he has helped me sort of see what is possible on the end range and how |
| 0:50.5 | inspiring one person can be in operating their place. So Taylor and his wife Katie started |
| 0:56.0 | a company, Epic Provisions. Years ago at this point, it was quickly acquired by General |
| 1:00.2 | Mills and they took a lot of the proceeds and invested it into making this bison ranch |
| 1:04.8 | called Rome Ranch west of Austin, Texas that holds tons of education events and is a beacon |
| 1:11.2 | for regenerative agriculture, especially in this area of the country. They have then sort |
| 1:15.4 | of tripled down on the regenerative movement and launched a company with the CEO, previous |
| 1:21.0 | CEO of Epic, who is Robbie Sansum, who has been on this podcast before, really trying to |
| 1:25.8 | figure out how they can leverage the market to be able to expand the supply chain sanitization |
| 1:31.0 | of regenerative agriculture. So we talk about all that, his journey, but also how life on |
| 1:37.0 | the ranch has changed him in his perspective. It's amazing they have two young children |
| 1:41.9 | out there and really have gone all in. And I think it's sometimes tough for people to relate |
| 1:47.8 | to ranchers because they've, people were born in a rural area and grew up in a rural area |
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