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Episode 401: Harvesting Hope: Veterans and Farming with Jon Jackson

Fieldcraft Survival

FieldCraft Survival

Wilderness, Sports

53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Jon Jackson of Comfort Farms and Stag Vets Inc joins Kevin Estela in this week's podcast. Jackson shares his interest in farming and tracing food back through his ancestral roots from the trans Atlantic slave trade. Jackson runs an organization providing veterans with a healthy outlet raising animals, humane butchering, and providing meals from the farm. Estela and Jackson discuss the importance of protecting the food supply, why you should not eat sterile foods, and comfort foods made from unwanted cuts of meat. Jackson shares stories and advice from his service in the ranger regiment and he explains the steps needed to help others coping with hardship. To contact Jackson, reach out to [email protected].

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0:00.0

Hey guys, this is Kevin Estello Fieldcraft Survival. I'm your host for this ad space right before the

0:17.5

podcast and I just want to take a couple minutes of your time to give thanks to hoist. And hoist is one of those hydration drinks that, you know, if you come here to North Carolina and you go into our fridge, you know, we'll often tell you like, hey, try this drink.

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0:35.9

People love hoist, and you can find it in all the supermarkets around here.

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It's one of those drinks that, you know, I get it, water is good for you, but sometimes water can just be boring.

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And if it's boring, you're not gonna drink it, or there's a chance that you're not gonna drink it.

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So if you have something with some flavor, then guess what? You're probably going to consume it.

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You're probably going to stay more hydrated.

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And when you are in our training courses, whether it's in the high humidity of the summer,

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or it's in the dry air of the winter out in Utah,

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listen you got to stay hydrated. So Hoist is one of those companies that we've

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1:34.9

office. One of the things that I like is the powdered drinks mix and the reason for that is because

1:41.5

if I'm going out into the backcountry and I'm using my water treatment

1:46.0

method, whether that's chemical pills or I'm using a filter or whatever, well, it doesn't always

1:52.0

get rid of the flavor and hoist does a pretty good job of masking that.

1:56.0

So I know the water is safe to drink, I just want it to be better tasting to drink.

2:00.5

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