22. Regenerative Agriculture, Food Sourcing, and Grocery Budgets | Ashley & Sarah Armstrong the Strong Sistas
The Freely Rooted Podcast
Kori Meloy and Fallon Lee
4.9 • 993 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Ashley & Sarah Armstrong are sisters and first generation farmers at Angel Acres. They are passionate about nose-to-tail eating, regenerative agriculture, metabolic health & minerals, and sustainability. They have shared their raw & honest journeys healing from autoimmune disease, amenorrhea, toxic mold, and more over the years. After trying IIFYM, plant-based, keto, & carnivore, they find themselves at their most balanced, resilient, & nourished place with a pursuit of metabolic health & mineral balance.
Join us as we sit down & discuss the following:
- Ashley & Sarah's journeys with stress, exercise, dieting, & amenorrhea
- Their road to healing & how their perspective of health has shifted
- Healing from toxic mold
- The sister's Angel Acres farm & first-generation farming experience
- How their view of honoring the environment has changed their dietary approach
- What IS regenerative agriculture and why should we care?
- The importance of cattle in healing the land
- The long-term consequences of mono-cropping and conventional farming methods
- How cattle are the best answer to food security
- Why nose-to-tail eating is important and how it can help with your budget
- Where to start looking for a local, regenerative farm
- Why "organic" may matter less than we think and what questions to ask your farmer
- What questions to ask your local farmer about raw milk and other animal product production
- Best brand alternatives to raw milk
- How we can repurpose and stretch our own food to save money
- Why you should consider starting a worm farm
- Their biggest "splurge" food
- Food is a worthwhile investment and tallow is magic
- How we can reframe the way we think about our budget
- What the Armstrong Sisters have planned for their future resources
*Not medical advice. This podcast & episode are for inspirational + educational purposes only*
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| 0:00.0 | Regenerative agriculture, regenerative has the word regenerate in it and that is a verb meaning to add life to to improve the help of to add more vigorous life to. |
| 0:13.2 | All right, Sarah and Ashley, I am so pumped that you guys are here. |
| 0:20.0 | We adore you guys and I often find myself living vicariously through your lives as sisters and you know getting to be first generation farmers together. |
| 0:29.5 | You guys are so inspiring to follow along with on Instagram and also YouTube I know you guys have had a |
| 0:35.4 | YouTube channel in the past and I find that anytime I see a post from you guys I walk away |
| 0:40.6 | thinking like oh my gosh why have I never thought about before before and I go and actually try that thing like the citrus, you know, like repurposing orange peals and making like a citrus cleaner out of it. And yeah, we just really appreciate what you guys bring to the metabolic health |
| 0:55.3 | space and I would love to start out by hearing your wellness journeys and maybe we can |
| 1:00.6 | start with Ashley who I know you fairly recently got your period back in November |
| 1:05.7 | after 13 years of not having one and so maybe you can start with your journey and then we'll go over to Sarah |
| 1:11.7 | Just walking us through your wellness journey like where |
| 1:14.7 | you started where you're at now all the things. |
| 1:17.8 | Okay I'm gonna try to well first off thank you guys for having us on. |
| 1:22.8 | I've been looking forward to this conversation all week. |
| 1:25.7 | It's just fun to talk to like-minded people. |
| 1:28.2 | So thank you guys. |
| 1:30.4 | I'm going to try to keep this brief |
| 1:31.6 | because I have been through a lot in my health journey. |
| 1:35.2 | I've really been into health and wellness since age 14 and so I'm 29 now and it all started when I became like obsessed with sports and wanting to be the best athlete ever. And I went to like a sports performance clinic shouldn't exist for young kids that age. Really shouldn't and ever |
| 1:54.4 | since that day they talked about like nutrition and I just became obsessed with |
| 1:58.4 | trying to eat healthy and I think all of us have probably experienced this. The definition of healthy eating has evolved a lot over those years. |
| 2:07.8 | And so back then it was the typical, you know, brown rice, |
| 2:19.5 | Whole wheat pasta chicken breast broccoli no fat and so that kind of set me off on a really bad start because I didn't even have my period yet. I had one I got one |
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