Welcome to Karen Hunter's awesome. I am Karen Hunter and today is Earth Day. So I am going to be sharing with you an interview, a portion of an interview that I did with Master Farmer.

Her name is Leah Peniman, and we are getting in the earth because I think it is so important.

This is what we come from, and this is what we'll return to.

And I think it's important that in this time, especially we understand the power of the earth.

I'm giving you just a taste for those of you who aren't familiar

with the Karen Hunter Show on Sirius XM. If you want the whole interview, please go over to Channel

126 on the app or in your car. Wherever you get your Sirius XM, you can check that out today

in its entirety, my interview with Leah Penamon. I hope you enjoy. Let me welcome. Miss Leah

Pinneman. Hello. Hello. Hello. Thank you so much for having you. Well, listen, I appreciate

the work that you're doing. I feel like I'm doing walks now daily. I'm up to 103 consecutive days out

there. Rain or shine, snow or whatever. But it's put me in community with

nature in a way that I didn't expect. I'm not a walker. I'm type A. I'm constantly moving. I'm

driving. And this has connected me to myself in a way I didn't expect. And I'm just listening to a

book finished it called Inflamed, which I thought was going to be

about inflammation, but it's about everything that you're writing about. And at 16, though,

you understood what was going on in your life that made you want to start a whole movement?

I think you give me too much credit, maybe join a movement. But I started farming when I was 16, so I'm from Soul Fire Farm, but started out working for

the Food Project in Boston.

And there was something about the undeniable, elegant goodness of putting a seed in the ground,

caring for it, tending it, bringing it to harvest and feed the community.

It's like that intersection of earth care and people care.

And I got hooked on that and started farming every summer, high school, college.

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