From Dietician to Full Time Homesteader

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Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Even though Katie Krejci enjoyed her job as a dietician, her homesteading life pulled her closer to working the garden instead. It wasn’t until she began to work from home that she realized homesteading was the answer to questions she had in her work in private practice. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/47XyBF8 Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3RwZavT Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/47CQk51 EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/41i9Dyx Learn More: How Long Do Chickens Live And Lay Eggs? Connect With Katie Krejci: Katie Krejci brings her experience as a dietitian and a homesteader together as "The Homesteading RD" where she helps others become more self-sufficient, cook from scratch, and enjoy wholesome REAL food. She recently moved from a 5-acre to a 240-acre homestead in the north woods of Minnesota with her husband where they have a large garden, raise their own egg chickens, meat chickens, tap maple trees, hunt, forage, and more! Katie grew up in the city, so she is self-taught (you can do it, too!) and loves sharing her knowledge with others via social media and her website. Instagram Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You have wanted to become a homesteader, but don't really have any experience in it.
0:16.7	Maybe you're doing something completely different as far as your career goes.
0:20.3	And maybe in general or just somewhat confused on where to begin.
0:23.4	I think this week's episodes with Katie Chi,
0:25.9	aka the homesteading RD, will be very informative.
0:30.0	I think we met on maybe Instagram, and it's been really fun watching your journey
0:35.8	you recently moved from a five acre to a 240 acre homestead which is like both intimidating and kind of my dream at the same time.
0:45.9	So I'm happy to have you on the show and maybe we could start with the name, the homesteading
0:49.8	RD kind of speaks to what you used to do, right?
0:52.4	Yeah, absolutely. R D kind of speaks to what you used to do, right?
0:53.4	Yeah, absolutely.
0:54.8	It was kind of meshing all my worlds together.
0:58.1	And I struggled with the name for the longest time.
1:01.1	Like, how do I want to bring everything together and that just made sense you know I have
1:06.4	my home setting background and passion and what I do at home and then I was also a dietician and then when I quit my hospital job and started to kind of reinvent myself that's when the two worlds really came together into my now business, the homesteading RD. So when you were at the hospital as a
1:26.8	dietician, maybe breakdown, is a registered dietician, right, RD. So what kind of work were you doing there?
1:34.0	Yeah, so I started out in the very much traditional
1:38.9	conventional medicine world of the traditionally trained dietician and I worked in a hospital setting downtown for 11 years so that was definitely the track that I was in for a while and I enjoyed it in the beginning,
1:56.0	but as I started to develop more and more into my homesteading world and starting to kind of learn more about functional nutrition on the side, which functional
2:06.0	nutrition is kind of a newer segment of nutrition, even though it's actually kind of the old way we used to do it but we're finally
2:14.4	getting back to it was it's really using food to heal your body and address the root cause of your symptoms instead of just symptom management.
2:24.5	That's what I was taught in the conventional medicine world.
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