99: Soul and soil
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Farming is a back-breaking, weather-dependent, uncertain profession that often does not turn a profit. No wonder the average farmer in the United States is 58 years old. Not many are interested in farming as a career. Why farm, they might ask themselves, when they could have a nice comfortable job in some air-conditioned office downtown?
Forrest Pritchard is a persuasive proponent of farming. He represents the soul of those who till the soil. He, and many others, are answering the call to farm. They have a heart for providing whole, healthy, nutrient-dense, organic foods for everyone and they want their farms to be places of harmony, peace, and beauty.
Forrest is a best-selling author and the farmer of Smith Meadows in the Shenandoah Valley. Prepare to be captivated by his words and vision. He most definitely puts his heart and soul into the soil.
For more on Forrest, visit his website: forrestpritchard.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody has to eat, right? Hopefully, three times a day, seven days a week. We must eat. And that's a mandatory exercise as much as breathing and sleeping and all these things. |
| 0:13.0 | So when you start to think objectively, like step back, like, |
| 0:16.0 | where is this food going to come from? |
| 0:17.5 | Aren't there people out there that really care about the environment, |
| 0:22.0 | about animal welfare about |
| 0:24.0 | sustainable wages |
| 0:25.4 | about beautiful views |
| 0:27.0 | you know give me a hundred different customers i'll give you a hundred different |
| 0:30.6 | good reasons why this farming matters. |
| 0:32.8 | Welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast sponsored by the Westin A Price Foundation for |
| 0:44.8 | Wise Traditions and Food Farming and the Healing Arts. We are your source for |
| 0:49.4 | scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. acknowledge and Koda Gore. This is episode 99 and my guest, wait did I just say that? Yes, it's |
| 1:05.2 | episode 99. You guys the show has been on the air out there on the internet since |
| 1:10.4 | 2016 and we're so excited. I'll try to get back to the script. |
| 1:14.0 | But the point is next week is going to be the 100th episode, |
| 1:17.0 | so you have to listen as we do a lovely Q&A with Sally Fallon-Marel, |
| 1:20.0 | the head of the Western A Prize Foundation. |
| 1:22.0 | But for now, yes, this is episode 99. Fallon-Marel, the head of the Westin-A Price Foundation. |
| 1:22.8 | But for now, yes, this is episode 99, |
| 1:25.6 | and my guest is Forrest Pritchard. |
| 1:27.7 | He is a full-time farmer and a New York Times best-selling author. |
| 1:31.8 | You heard me right, Forrest runs his own farm, Smith Meadows, |
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