A friend, welcome back to the Old Fashion on Purpose Podcast.

So you are in for a treat today.

I have been waiting for this episode for several months.

It's been on the calendar.

I have been eagerly anticipating it and I am just fan grilling out a tiny bit.

So you guys know I've been getting deep, no pun intended, into soil, health and information

lately.

You know, you come into this world of homesteading for the vegetables and the harvest, but then

at least for me, I got into that deeper world, the longer I progressed into this idea of

homesteading.

And so a big piece of that is starting to really understand what my soil is doing, how

it's affecting the food I am growing and also how I can just tear for it and nurture it,

which I really believe is our role as homesteaders and gardeners.

So I've been waiting to find the right experts to have on to discuss this with us and I have

them and they are with us today and they are amazing.

So they are the author of one of my favorite reads of the last year, What Your Food Eight

and David Montgomery and and Peaclay are masterful at explaining these topics in a way that

is very accessible and really honestly quite inspiring.

So just to give you a little background on them, David Montgomery is a MacArthur fellow

and professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington.

He's an internationally recognized geologist who studies the effects of geological processes

on ecological systems and human societies and and Peaclay is a science writer and public

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