542: 40 Years of Farming Organically: Has it Been Worth It? With Bob Quinn

Wise Traditions

Weston A. Price Foundation

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

4.7 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Naysayers suggest that organic, regenerative farming is impractical, expensive, and less productive than conventional farming methods. Farmer Bob Quinn has been at it for over 40 years and he is convinced that not only is organic and regenerative farming is possible, it produces greater yields and can be more profitable.

He tells numerous stories today from his own experience and from the farmers he's mentored over the years. He highlights how regenerative agriculture is a better way to farm, producing food that is better to eat. He talks about trends in farming, and his "four main pillars for turning food into medicine".

Visit Bob's websites: quinninstitute.org and realorganicproject.org

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0:00.0	When we first started to convert, our farm was going behind almost every year and getting more and more depth.
0:07.1	And many of our neighbors, Hilda, the last 50 years, 75% of our neighbors are gone.
0:13.0	They've gone broke.
0:13.9	Or they discouraged their kids.
0:15.2	They sold out and told their kids, don't even think about coming back here.
0:18.5	75%.
0:19.2	You can't call that success.
0:21.0	This is not successful agriculture in America.
0:23.5	This is an extraction program.
0:25.6	And so we're extracting the wealth from rural America for the benefit of a few.
0:29.9	So I think that that's really important.
0:31.8	That's what saved our farm.
0:33.8	It turned it into a profitable operation.
0:36.0	In three years, we didn't even have to have a note from the bank for operation.
0:40.5	We didn't have an operating note anymore,
0:42.4	which is that all the money that most chemical farmers borrow in the spring
0:46.7	to pay all their chemical bills,
0:48.3	and they hope they have a crop in the fall worth enough to pay it back.
0:52.4	And we eliminated that.
0:59.4	Thank you. fall worth enough to pay it back. And we eliminated that. From the Weston A. Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for Wise
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