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Naturally Nourished

Episode 256: The Importance of Soil and Lessons from the Bison with Katie and Taylor of ROAM Ranch

Naturally Nourished

Ali Miller RD

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.8655 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Curious how a livestock ranch gets started and how raising animals can have a net-positive return on the planet? Want to know what it means to be a land steward and how observing animals in nature can teach us valuable lessons?   Tune in to hear Ali and Becki interview Katie and Taylor of ROAM Ranch for an important conversation about regenerative agriculture. In this episode, Ali and Becki interview Katie and Taylor of ROAM Ranch about starting Epic Provisions, the transition to raising their own animals, the importance of soil health and beyond. Learn about lessons Katie and Taylor have learned from working with nature, raising bison, and how their work is connecting and healing communities.    Also in this episode:  Naturally Nourished: Food as Medicine for the Whole Family Program - Now Available Apply to Become an Ambassador How Epic Provisions Came to BeEpisode 42: Transitioning from Vegan Soil Health Thoughts on Food Security and Synthetic MeatEpisode 211: Metabolic, Immune, and Cellular Health with Mike Mutzel Episode 217: Beyond Labels with Joel Salatin and Dr. Sina McCollough Episode 208: Wild Fed with Guest Daniel Vitalis Lessons from the BisonRedmond Real Salt - use code ALIMILLERRD  Where to find Taylor and Katie:Force of Nature ROAM Ranch   About Taylor and Katie: TAYLOR AND KATIE ARE CO-FOUNDERS OF ROAM RANCH AS WELL AS EPIC PROVISIONS, THE INDUSTRY PIONEERING MEAT BRAND DEVOTED TO GROWING SUPPLY CHAINS OF REGENERATIVELY SOURCED ANIMALS ON A GLOBAL SCALE. EPIC'S METEORIC RISE LED TO A FULL ACQUISITION OF THE BRAND BY GENERAL MILLS IN 2016 AND HAS SINCE ALLOWED THE COUPLE TO ACCELERATE THEIR VISION OF LARGE SCALE POSITIVE IMPACT BEYOND IMAGINATION. WORKING EVERYDAY TOWARDS REGENERATING THEIR OWN RANCH, TAYLOR AND KATIE HOPE TO INSPIRE THE NEXT GENERATION OF LAND STEWARDS. IN THEIR JOURNEY, THE COUPLE IS PROVING THAT WHEN PROPERLY MANAGED, LIVESTOCK CAN RESTORE ECOSYSTEMS, HEAL SOIL, NOURISH CONSUMERS, REGENERATE RURAL ECONOMIES, AND INVIGORATE WILDLIFE HABITATS. THROUGH RANCHING TAYLOR AND KATIE HOPE TO CREATE A MEANINGFUL IMPACT ON THE LIVES OF OTHERS, THE HEALTH OF CONSUMERS, AND THE ECOLOGICAL WEALTH OF OUR LANDS.   Sponsors for this episode:  This episode is also sponsored by FOND Bone Broth Tonics, Your Sous Chef in a Jar. FOND is slow simmered and lovingly tended from simmer to seal. They partner with organic farms and hand-pick and pair ingredients to optimize absorption and taste. Use code ALIMILLERRD to save at fondbonebroth.com.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Naturally Nourished Podcast that delivers cutting-edge food is medicine solutions for optimal health.

0:12.8

Ali Miller is a nutrition expert sought up by the media in America's top medical institutes

0:18.3

for her revolutionary functional medicine interventions.

0:22.6

From disease treatment to prevention, every episode will empower you with ways to put yourself

0:28.3

back in control of your health. Please know, the topic is discussed are for educational purposes

0:35.1

only. Now welcome, Integrative Dietitians, Allie Miller, and her co-host Becky You.

0:42.4

Welcome to the Naturally Nourished Podcast.

0:44.9

You are joining us for episode 256, the importance of soil and lessons from the buffalo

0:50.4

with Katie and Taylor from Rome Ranch.

0:53.5

In this important conversation, we are going to be

0:56.6

talking regenerative agriculture, the importance of soil health for food security, learning curve

1:03.1

of homesteading and animal raising, and what we can learn from the Buffalo and a lot of other things

1:10.4

in between.

1:11.4

Yes, it's certainly a fun conversation, and I think you guys are really going to enjoy them as guests.

1:18.6

I think this is one that could be a good one to get outside and walk around with not our typical beepoo babu nerdy.

1:25.2

You need a pen and paper and highlighter for your functional medicine notes

1:28.3

but you will be inspired to get connected intimately with your food system and really get to

1:35.1

know the ranchers that are producing the meats that you're consuming as well as the farmers

1:40.0

that are producing the produce that you're making and learning how to be a part actively in

1:45.6

your food system. And this has been something we've really been doing more over the last, I guess,

1:50.0

year or so, you know, we featured Joel Solitin. So we'll put his episode on learning the food

1:56.6

labeling. And we talked a lot about food industry and his biodynamic farming and then the other

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