1KHO 537: Do You Want Healthy Kids? Take Them Outside | Miriam Eriksson and Amanda Argyle, Argyle Acres

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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What if the key to healthier, happier kids—and adults—wasn’t hidden in a lab but buried in the soil beneath our feet? In this powerful episode of The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, Amanda Argyle and Miriam Eriksson of Argyle Acres Education Foundation share their deeply personal stories of transformation—through infertility, health crises, and radical simplicity—to show how reconnecting with nature and regenerative farming can revive families from the inside out. From raw land and baby carriers to community camps and chicken-processing days, they’ve built a space where kids witness the rhythms of real life, discover their resilience, and fall in love with the natural world. Host Ginny Yurich guides a rich conversation about soil health, ancestral wisdom, and why death isn’t something to hide from kids—but a teacher to embrace. The conversation weaves science with story, beauty with messiness, and parenting with purpose. Whether you're new to farming or just trying to make more space for nature in your family’s life, this episode is a moving reminder: you don’t need perfection—just the courage to begin. Learn more at @argyle_acres and @thebiohackingfamily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.0	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. to start your journey today.
0:24.8	Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast.
0:25.9	My name is Ginny Urich.
0:27.6	I'm the founder of 1,000 Hours Outside,
0:32.7	and it is podcast debut for Amanda Argyle and Miriam Erickson.
0:33.9	Welcome to the both of you.
0:35.1	Thank you.
0:36.9	So excited. You are doing incredible work about teaching families,
0:40.3	kids, older people, all the ages, about regenerative farming practices, getting people back to the earth.
0:48.0	So because it's your debut, let's give a little bit of introductions. You can each go. I would love to know a little bit about your story.
0:55.0	How did you end up in this spot? Like I know one of you is like, my husband was a skydiver. And I, you know, I mean, all these really cool things. So individual stories. And then I really would like to know how you two connected. Yeah. You want to go first about. Yeah, sure. So we have to back it up just a little bit.
0:53.0	I would say it started, I'm a regenerative farmer and I got Sure. You want to go first about? Yeah, sure. So we have to back it up just a little bit.
1:11.8	I would say it started, I'm a regenerative farmer, and I got into that by my own food journey,
1:17.6	started by reading labels, probably back in 2010 or so, and just really started diving
1:24.2	into where our food was coming from and didn't love what I found. And you can't
1:31.1	and see it once you see it. So in 2015, my husband and I came across a decrepit farmhouse that
1:37.7	we were like, oh, we can afford that. Let's buy it, fix it up and start farming. We'll just grow the
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