Full Circle Living: a Harvesting Conversation
One in Nature
English - June 21, 2022 13:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBMedicine Health & Fitness Society & Culture shinrin yoku forestbathing forest therapy nature connection wellbeing wellness Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
A lively conversation with farmer Haleigh Christ while picking a crop of green beans at a biodynamic Black Forest farm. As her two toddlers play underfoot and farm life bustles all around, Haleigh shares about day to day life as a regenerative farmer and the important personal choices on the path towards harmony with one's life-affirming values.
The topics of this episode include:
Why food is possibly our most significant connection with the ecosystem
The difference between organic and biodynamic farming
The carnivorous wonders of healthy soil
Living in tune with the cycles of life
From consumer to ecological co-creator
Haleigh Christ is a regenerative farmer living and farming in Southern Germany. She lives with her husband and two children on a bio-dynamic community farm, which does its best to live in harmony with its ecosystem. She lives passionately for strengthening communities and ecosystems through empowerment of the individual within the whole. Her current focus is in building a community supported agriculture program to extend the farm's current self-sufficiency onto others. She is excited for the future and believes that we have endless opportunities to connect and heal through food!
To learn more about the place, humans and animals check out www.klosterhofsitzenkirch.de
Quotes and references mentioned by Haleigh during the conversation:
Michael Pollan (Voting With Your Fork)
Zach Bush, MD
René Descartes, French philosopher, mathematician, scientist. (1596-1650)
David Hume, Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian. (1711-76)
Dugald Stewart, Scottish philosopher and mathematician. (1753-1828)