Wilderness Abandonment (with Joel Salatin)

06/26/19 • 55 min

The radical ideology of wilderness abandonment is getting misapplied to our public and private land.

We are seeing the unfortunate consequences of the "hands off" ecological approach. Everything from beetlekill in Colorado to California burning wildly out of control. Still, we persist in our belief that we need to keep our hands off the land. Rather than use our opposable thumbs for good, we just need to stay off entirely.

We are losing farmland to wilderness at a frightening pace in our country. 3 acres every 60 seconds. At that rate, our farm would be gone in 2.5 hours.

Is there any alternative to this madness? Can we produce food in a way that heals the land rather than destroys it? Is land better off being abandoned?

The radical ideology of wilderness abandonment is getting misapplied to our public and private land.

We are losing farmland to wilderness at a frightening pace in our country. 3 acres every 60 seconds. At that rate, our farm would be gone in 2.5 hours.

Is there any alternative to this madness? Can we produce food in a way that heals the land rather than destroys it? Is land better off being abandoned?

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Episode 11: The Stewardship Diet (with Kelli Williams)

Diets are usually about eliminating stubborn belly fat. That's reductionist, but hang with me. And they are usually recycled. What's in and what's out is really just repackaged every couple of years and given a fancy new name that millenials can get behind. But what I haven't seen is a diet that isn't just totally about you.

Why can't our diets promote consistency in our often chaotic lives? So many diets just end up being short-lived fads because we can't maintain the impossibly high idealism we started them with. Real life just seems to crush it. There needs to be enough flexibility in a diet that allows for times to break it without having to throw all of it out the window.

I offer to you "The Stewardship Diet". I started the stewardship diet about ten months ago with my wife Kelli. It's basically an improvement on the paleo diet, with an acknowledgement that there's no way to follow it perfectly. It's regenerative, flexible, and forgiveable. I hope you enjoy it.

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Episode 12: Off The Record

"Off the Record" will be a thematically driven show I release from time to time. It's unscripted and pretty laid back. I envision the show as a catalogue of low moments and honest talk. All the stuff that happens to me, or other people I interview, that didn't go the way we thought or simply proved disastrous, will make it on here.

Today's show theme is "time". I am shooting for Dan Carlin's contemplative vibe, but I wax lyrical on just how arbritary time is. But, arbitrary or not, time is important. It's a yardstick for our lives.

And 2 second improvements can really make your life easier. I talk about our dairy operation, and the difficulties I encountered at first. I went from spending 6 hours a day down to 2 hours a day.

And time travel is possible, by the way.