422: Homesteading: This vs. That
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In our modern lives, we look for things to make our lives easier and more convenient. So why would we choose to do anything that requires more energy and effort?! DIY projects around the house, cooking meals from scratch, and even growing produce or raising livestock all require a lot of elbow grease.
Jill Winger, podcaster, author, and host of the Old Fashioned on Purpose podcast, helps us explore a more conscious approach to living simply. She discusses the benefits of rolling up our sleeves and working with our hands: slowing down, a deeper connection with our food, improved health, and mindfulness! She also covers what happens to our brains and bodies when life is "too easy."
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| 0:00.0 | From the Weston A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for Wise |
| 0:10.7 | Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts. |
| 0:14.0 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve |
| 0:18.2 | optimal health. |
| 0:23.6 | And now here is our host and producer, Hilda Labrata Gore. |
| 0:28.1 | Hey, Hilda here. In our modern lives, we are offered choices that make our lives easier |
| 0:34.8 | and more convenient. From Door Dash to Amazon Prime, why would we ever make meals from scratch, |
| 0:42.7 | make home improvements, grow food or raise animals when there are others that can do all of this for us? |
| 0:49.3 | Sustaining ourselves by ourselves requires a good deal of energy and effort and is pretty |
| 0:55.2 | inconvenient, to say the least. So why or why would anyone choose to live that way? |
| 1:01.3 | Living a sort of more old-fashioned way in a modern world. |
| 1:05.6 | This is episode 422 and our guest today is Jill Winger. |
| 1:09.9 | Jill is a homesteader, author and the host of the old-fashioned on-purpose podcast. |
| 1:15.4 | She reminds us today of the advantages and benefits of choosing this, |
| 1:20.3 | cooking from scratch, DIY projects and more, over that, fast food, outsourcing to experts, |
| 1:27.4 | etc. She enumerates the benefits that include slowing down, a more intimate connection with |
| 1:33.2 | our food, improved health and mindfulness. And she discusses the joy that comes from doing |
| 1:39.7 | things with our hands, beyond tapping on a screen. In the end, she discusses what it looks like |
| 1:44.8 | to choose this and that, to make conscious choices about what conveniences to keep, |
| 1:50.6 | and which old ways to re-incorporate into our lives. Before we dive into the conversation, |
| 1:56.7 | have you checked out our mini podcast episodes yet? These are just five to ten minutes long, |
| 2:02.3 | kind of an extended conversation with some of our guests. And they're free for all West and A |
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