354: Know Your Farmer
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Do you know your farmer? What might it look like to connect with the person who grows or raises your food? What characterizes the communities that care about regenerative agriculture and nourishing, local food? Today we gain insight from a community in Little Rock, Arkansas of farmers and those who rally around them. Our guests are Clint Ballard of Milk and Honey Hill Farm, Greg and Kinsey Bradford of Bradford Valley Farm, Barbara Hutchinson, a farm hand at The Farm at Barefoot Bend, and David and Micah Rice, the owners of The Bramble Market.
We discuss a number of topics including: why local food matters, what got these farmers farming in the first place, the highs and lows of farm life, the benefits and challenges of producing raw milk and the satisfaction that comes from connecting with your community, and, yes, knowing your farmer.
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| 0:00.0 | You have a choice. You can either pay your doctor or you can pay your farmer. If you pay your |
| 0:06.4 | farmer you know what you're getting. You know you're getting the good meats and you know what's in |
| 0:10.5 | them. You don't have to go to the doctor to get all these medicines for being sick from eating |
| 0:16.4 | things that you don't know what's in it. You get stuff at the grocery store and like she's saying |
| 0:21.7 | you don't know what's really in those foods but if you're eating meats that you know where they're |
| 0:27.1 | locally grown and raised and how they're fed it's way healthier than the stuff that you get at |
| 0:33.6 | the grocery store. From the Weston A Price Foundation welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for |
| 0:44.9 | Wise Traditions in food, farming and the healing arts. We are your source for scientific knowledge |
| 0:50.5 | and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 0:59.8 | Hey, Hilda here. We've seen bumper stickers and memes with the saying, |
| 1:05.2 | know your farmer. But what does it look like in practice in real life? This is episode 354 |
| 1:12.0 | and we have a panel of six guests today who offer us insights on what it means to connect with |
| 1:17.8 | your farmer to know the provenance of your food and to forge ties with your local community. |
| 1:23.6 | I was on the six million download Wise Traditions Road tour this fall when I stopped in Little Rock |
| 1:29.2 | Arkansas and I met some amazing folks there courtesy of the local Weston Price chapter leaders |
| 1:35.0 | Mara Parker and Lizzie Sharp. We gathered together at Bramble Market to meet with and interview |
| 1:41.4 | some of their favorite farmers and the market owners themselves. So today you'll hear from Clint |
| 1:46.8 | Ballard of milk and honeyhill farm Greg and Kinsey Bradford of Bradford Valley farm |
| 1:52.7 | Barbara Hutchinson from the farm at Barefoot Bend and David and Micah Rice, the owners of Bramble |
| 1:58.9 | Market. Together we discuss the importance of quality over quantity in terms of our food choices |
| 2:04.8 | and our farm practices. We also talk about what got these farmers into farming in the first place. |
| 2:11.0 | We discuss as well the issues that some farms are facing with the shortage of meat processing |
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