It's it first it's hard to it's hard to understand it because you just wouldn't think that we'd be doing something for so long that would be detrimental to our help.

Yep.

And and and when you come to find out that the truth is there and you just just really willingly stay in it to the fact and not researching it and not digging into it to find out what that's about.

And what's all happening is really shameful to that I waited so long. I mean I have a lot of anxiety for what I did for so long that I'm I feel like I'm running behind now.

I'm just you know we're we want to go hard and fast you know and and go the other direction.

Season three of the Plant Strong podcast explores those Galileo moments where you seek to understand the real truth around your health and dare to see the world through a different lens.

This season we honor those courageous seekers who are paving the way for you and me so grab your telescope point it towards your future and let's get plants strong together.

Hello and welcome to the Plant Strong podcast Valentine's Day is right around the corner and with the pandemic this year it will be pretty darn difficult if not impossible to make dinner reservations let alone find a restaurant that serves you a plant strong heart healthy meal.

That is exactly why we've partnered with our new friends at the Chef's Garden to bring you an extra special for course adventure right to your doorstep.

We have just a few boxes remaining and every ingredient has been hand picked from this regenerative farm and is loaded with both nutrition and flavor and a random selection of boxes will get a super fun surprise a heart shaped cucumber how adorable is that sign up today and we'll send you a box brimming with ingredients to make dinner for two along with printed menu and recipe cards.

The library of videos so you can know exactly how to make every one of these incredible dishes and as a special perk for our podcast listeners today I'm going to reveal the dessert course so spoiler alert if you want to be surprised skip ahead right now while I wait.

Okay here it is our fourth course is a sweet potato maza morra let's repeat that together maza morra just rolls off the tongue now before my trip to the farm I had never heard of a maza morra and I had never eaten a sweet potato for dessert but this was insane it's a baked creamy custard that literally fools you into thinking it's good.

Cream based I cannot wait to make it for my wife for Valentine's Day boxes will ship next week so don't delay in ordering visit plantstrong dot com slash garden today and reserve your spot.

Today I want to introduce you to Jennifer and Rodney Barrett of Barrett family farms they may not be a household named you yet but I assure you their personal story will have a lasting impact for almost 20 years Jennifer and Rodney were poultry and cattle farmers in Arkansas it's in their families blood however after a series of major health setbacks financial hardships and moral crises

they finally decided to give it up no longer could they reconcile their work with a greater purpose and as Rodney says you wouldn't think we'd be doing something for so long that was so detrimental to our own health but like most of us they just didn't know any better until they sought the truth today those chicken houses that would breed over 100,000 chickens every 52 days

they're now giving birth to thousands of functional nourishing mushrooms in the cattle are literally part of the family this is their courageous and compassionate journey to health radical ethical transformation.

Rodney and Jennifer Barrett I want to welcome you to season three of the plantstrong podcast thank you so much for for joining me and our listeners for this for this conversation I've known you all for I'm going to guess now it's been about three years if I'm not mistaken two and a half three years

and we're two thousand eighty and so and we're going to get to that but I don't want to get to that yet but where I want to start is so season three of the podcast what we're really doing is we're highlighting those courageous seekers of the truth that then have done something about it and you guys to me absolutely epitomize that

and so what I'd like to do is I want you to share your story but let's start at the very very beginning and if you could tell me about your life in Arkansas before you found plantstrong living.

Welcome you started off okay well we moved here in late nineteen ninety nine we moved to the farm to go over my parents chicken operation Rodney and I both have a love of farm life country life we both grew up around you know are both of our grandparents had farms and we just love that farm life

and we lived in Huntsville Texas before then Rodney worked for the prison I worked I had a you know job at the school and when the opportunity came up for us to move here to the farm we just jumped on it and took it and raised chickens in my parents old chicken houses for six years.

Six and a half years until we couldn't compete anymore in the industry with those old houses so we had to either upgrade or build new facilities so we chose to go all in and build new facilities in 2006 and raise chickens we had four five hundred foot chicken houses that we raised around a hundred thousand chickens.

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