296: Grow Closer to Your Food, the Land & One Another
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
How did a professional body builder end up on a farm, living in a yurt? Mike Dickson is known as The Fit Farmer, and today he tells the story of how his life and priorities changed. He talks about his transition from PopTarts to real food. He shares what it feels like to tend to the earth under our feet and why it matters. He talks about how to balance our use of technology. In short, he covers how to cultivate healthy relationships across the board—with ourselves, our food, the land, and the community around us.
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| 0:00.0 | I got to the point where it's like, you know what? |
| 0:03.3 | The best way to know what kind of food we're putting in us is to actually start growing |
| 0:08.2 | some of it ourselves. |
| 0:09.8 | I didn't grow up raising or growing any food, so this was something new to me, but it |
| 0:15.7 | was something that I felt like I needed the change I needed to make. |
| 0:18.4 | I needed to be more connected with the food that I was putting in me. |
| 0:27.6 | From the Weston A. Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for Wise Traditions |
| 0:32.8 | in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts. |
| 0:35.5 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve |
| 0:39.6 | optimal health. |
| 0:40.6 | Hey, Hilda here. |
| 0:49.1 | A lot of us go to the gym or do online workouts to stay strong, not Mike Dixon. |
| 0:54.5 | He works out daily at Earth's gym or his farm in other words. |
| 0:58.6 | This is episode 296 and our guest today is Mike Dixon. |
| 1:02.4 | He is a former bodybuilder and personal trainer. |
| 1:05.5 | Today Mike tells the story of how he went from focusing on bodybuilding and competitions |
| 1:10.4 | to living in a year and home-steading with his wife and family. |
| 1:14.2 | Mike's still in good shape mind you, exceptionally so, I might add, but his understanding of what |
| 1:19.1 | it means to be healthy has expanded. |
| 1:21.6 | It now includes not only the body's strength, but connection to the land and to one another. |
| 1:26.8 | Today he discusses how his life and priorities have changed. |
| 1:30.3 | He talks about how he went from pop-tarts to real food. |
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