212: A place for wonder

Wise Traditions

Weston A. Price Foundation

Wellness, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition, Diet, Health

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

How can we hold onto joy in a world that is so challenging? How can we keep the openness and curiosity of a child? Alyson Earl believes that connecting to nature is a great first step. Alyson is the executive director of the Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education. At the Horn Center, she is creating space of wonder, a place for wonder, and connection to the land and ourselves. She and her team are raising up a new generation of farmers and gardeners, helping people reconnect with the importance of soil health, biodiversity, and mutually beneficial relationships.

Among other things, in today’s conversation, Alyson discusses regenerative agriculture, the need for us to become producers (not merely consumers) and how we can hold onto hope as look at our lives and the land differently.

Learn more about the Horn Center here: hornfarmcenter.org

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0:00.0	It seems like we can't we don't have time to feel joy.
0:03.2	There's too much work to do, but I think that's one of the
0:07.8	lynch pins of being able to shift things is to be able to hold that tension between seeing the despair and destruction and what needs to be done and also
0:20.1	appreciating or reveling in the wonder of a flower or a butterfly or a butterfly who's perfectly
0:29.8	designed to drink the nectar from a flower that's shaped in just the perfect way to suit the
0:36.3	butterfly.
0:37.3	And Joseph Campbell, who was one of my early heroes, who's a mythologist who had a quote about learning to live joyfully
0:46.3	amongst the sorrows of the world and I find that to be good advice.
0:58.0	From the Weston A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast
1:00.0	for Wise Traditions in Food, farming, and the healing arts.
1:04.0	We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health.
1:10.0	Hey everybody, I'm your host Tyla Librato Gore. This is episode 212 and our guest is
1:19.1	Allison Earl. Allison is the executive director of the Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education.
1:26.0	The goal of the center is simple, to create a farming model based on soil health,
1:32.0	biodiversity, and mutually beneficial relationships.
1:36.5	It sounds beautiful, right?
1:38.3	This is the thing.
1:39.3	This work is more important than ever.
1:41.7	The average age of the American farmer is 50 to 60 years old.
1:46.7	From an economic standpoint, that means the industry is dying. People are also so disconnected from their food, where it comes from and how it's produced,
1:56.7	that they just aren't as passionate about being a direct part of the process anymore.
2:01.5	But Allison Horn is working toward changing all of that.
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