549: When Homesteading Dreams & Your Health Fall Apart, You Pivot With Aimee And John Willis
Sometimes homesteading is idealized and you get stars in your eyes, thinking it'll be so perfect... until it's not. Aimee and John Willis of Vintage Meadows tell the story of how a health crisis made them pivot from their original life goals into homesteading. They bought 4 acres and gave it a go. Then they had to sell it all and start all over, and over, and over again. You might call it a failure, a pivot, or simply relatable – but whatever it is, it shows the resilience of two people who want to nurture themselves and their community well and who haven't thrown in the towel just yet. Visit Aimee and John Willis' website: vintagemeadows.farm Follow the Wise Traditions on the podcast app of your choice or on Apple Podcasts Check out our sponsors: Optimal Carnivore and Sirius Nutrition
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548: Dangers Of The Vegan Diet, Glyphosate, And Vaccines With Zen Honeycutt
Shots, nutrient-deficient diets, and pesticides are negatively impacting our children's health...and have been for some time. Today, Zen Honeycutt, founder and president of Moms Across America, offers startling insights on the serious damage and repercussions of all of the above. She discusses studies that points to the fact that our children are getting more toxins than nutrients in their lunches, and she shares her own personal heartbreaking loss and why this is making her more determined than ever to fight on behalf of our nation's children. She also shares where she aligns with the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement and where she sees a need for improvement. Visit Zen's website: Moms Across America Join the Nourishing Our Children Facebook group Check out our sponsors: American Blossom Linens and Lumiram
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547: Beauty And Heartache On The Homestead With Tara Couture
Life is complicated and challenging. There is beauty and heartache...and somehow also beauty IN the heartache. In a timely message, Tara Couture, the author of "Radiance of the Ordinary", communicates how she processes and manages to embrace it all. On Tara's Slowdown Farmstead in Canada, she has dealt with the mundane -- from an ornery cow to issues obtaining raw milk -- to the unthinkable -- including the untimely death of her daughter. Tara reminds us that, amidst it all, life is still beauty-full. Visit Tara's website: slowdownfarmstead.com Register for the Wise Traditions conference in Utah: wisetraditions.org Check out our sponsors: Paleovalley and Harvest Right
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546: Resist Big Tech, Big Pharma, And Government Overreach With Leslie Manookian
In April 2025, the Idaho Medical Freedom Act was passed. Leslie Manookian of the Health Freedom Defense Fund crafted the legislation and lobbied for it to become law, in order to protect residents of Idaho from being fired, excluded, or discriminated against for not taking or using a medical intervention. What if you could pass similar legislation where you live? Would you like insights on how to preserve medical freedom for you and your community? Leslie today gives us the back story on what motivated her in the first place to help her fellow Idahoans. And she describes the hurdles she faced as she pushed to get the act passed. She also discusses how Big Tech has been implicated in the suppression of our freedom, starting way before 2020, and why it’s so important to work in our local communities to push back against the encroachment of our freedoms from tech and pharmaceutical companies and the government. Visit Leslie's website: healthfreedomdefense.org Become a member of the Weston A. Price Foundation (use code pod10) at westonaprice.org Check out our sponsors: Optimal Carnivore and American Blossom Linens
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545: The Nutrient Gap: Why Traditional Diets Nourish Us More With Sally Fallon Morell
Traditional diets maximized nutrients. Modern diets minimize them. Our current health crisis stems from our departure from traditional food and health ways – both how we raise our livestock and grow our produce, to what we do to it before it reaches our plate. Sally Fallon Morell, the President and founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation, explains where we've gone wrong and what we can do to rectify it. Visit Sally's website: Nourishing Traditions Follow the Wise Traditions podcast on your favorite podcast platform! Check out our sponsors: New Biology and Optimal Carnivore
The Weston A. Price Foundation's Wise Traditions podcast is for those who seek optimal health based on traditional wisdom. We believe that vibrant health cannot be cultivated in a lab, engineered through modern technology or found through “improving” nature. On the contrary, “life in all its fullness is mother nature obeyed,” as Dr. Weston Price put it. We can learn from healthy societies of the past how to live healthier lives now.
The Foundation's podcast is an invitation to follow traditional food and health ways to live our best lives. Our host and producer, Hilda Labrada Gore, interviews experts on a wide variety of topics—ranging from nutrient-dense foods to improving mental health to homesteading to detoxing to healing emotional trauma to the power of sunshine and mitigating EMFs. Every episode offers the listener a way to heal, grow and live a more vibrant and happy life.
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