Hey there friend, welcome back to the old-fashioned on-purpose podcast. We are kicking off a brand new

season. The brand new theme, I hope you enjoyed last season, which was our victory garden

series. We dove deep into all things organic gardening, seeds starting, fall guarding everything

in between. So if you missed out on that, you can go back and catch up. But we have a brand new theme

for the episodes moving forward and I'm really excited to do a deep dive into this topic.

You're listening to the old-fashioned on-purpose podcast where ambitious people master the art

of returning to their roots. Have you found yourself disenchanted with society or wishing you could

opt out of the rat race? Perhaps you're craving a life that's meaningful and tangible, a life

where you can create and produce instead of merely consume. I am Jill Winger, best-selling author

and longtime home center. Over the last 10 years, I've helped thousands of families create or

connection grow amazing organic food and find the ultimate fulfillment through an old-fashioned lifestyle

and I can do the same for you. Now on to our episode. Now to be perfectly honest, I actually

initially we're going to go a different direction for this season. I have this document that I

brain dump all my ideas because my ideas always come with the weirdest times. One of my cleaning the

barn or I'm watering plants or needing bread dough. Anybody else do that? Like I have to kind of be doing

manual labor and then the creative floodgates open. So I keep this document where I just dump it

because it does leave my brain. It doesn't stay there forever. And I had this other direction I was

going ahead and then Texas. Texas happened and I'm referring to the devastating historic winter

storms that hit Texas in February. It really like nothing Texas has ever seen at least in recent

history. And as I was watching the news reports coming out of Texas and these just heartbreaking

stories of people sleeping in their car and the pipes bursting in houses and no heat and no electricity

and the grocery stores are wiped clean and people are just stuck, right? I got a lot of thoughts

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