Author: Alison

Imagine buying bare land in Alaska and building your own farm from the ground up. Imagine raising cows and chickens there and growing virtually all your own food. Imagine doing this whilst also being a mum to three youngsters (two of whom are baby twins) and having a partner who works a job away from home. Today, Andrea talks to Amanda Callahan, the lady who is doing just that.

Do you want to know how to transition your kitchen and your eating to ancestral methods? Maybe you’ve tried before or stopped and started multiple times? Perhaps you have the Nourishing Traditions cookbook, but feel so overwhelmed that you don’t know where to go next? In this episode, we will make it easy for you!

Naomi Huzovicova is a passionate and talented ancestral cook, a food story discoverer and an amazing photographer. She has lived and cooked up Slovakian food culture for 17 years and we’re grateful to her for sharing so much of its uniqueness with us. In this episode we open up the rich world that is Slovakian food.

We know you want to know about fermentation! And who better to ask than the author of five fermentation books and co-founder of The Fermentation School, Kirsten Shockey. With over 20 years of experience in fermentation Kirsten has so much to share that’ll inform, enlighten and, frankly, change the way you eat.

Are you stressed about over-eating or over-indulging during the holidays? Do you travel to visit relatives, and you are anxious about eating a nourishing ancestral diet while away from home? What about the children?

In this episode I talk to Sir Patrick Holden, head of The Sustainable Food Trust and 50-year farmer and sustainable food activist. You’ll hear us talk about his latest research into how the UK could feed itself using fertiliser/pesticide-free sustainable agriculture (with no grain-fed animals!), the tools to take this global, and how this lifetime campaigner for sustainable animal-involved agriculture feels about lab meat, supermarkets, ground-up change and much more.

In this episode, we dive into the process of fermenting kitchen waste to make into compost and compost tea.

Melissa K Norris is a 5th generation homesteader, a mother, an author, a podcaster and an incredible wealth of experience and information on how to thrive living close to the land.

Fertility is an indication of peak health. Yet, in our modern-day thinking, we have reduced fertility to simply something you look at when you want to get pregnant. In this episode, we recount Alison’s incredible fertility journey, what the doctors told her about her hopes of ever conceiving naturally, and what she found as a solution.

“Find a supplier of as locally sourced grains as possible…find a mill; a coop and support them!” If you’re a bread-maker, this episode’s for you. We welcome back the fabulous Elly from Elly’s Everyday to the podcast to talk about the heart of bread, its raw material: grains and flour. During this episode you’ll hear…

Why am I so obsessed with rye? It’s because I love it… Rye is just so special. – Alison Where to begin with sourdough rye bread? This is a topic that both Alison and Andrea have received so many questions about. Alison is a rye sourdough bread expert – she has made hundreds of loaves over the span…

“Last year we served 26,000 meals to kids and that’s not including snacks…next year 44,000 meals.” Today we talk with an amazing woman. Hilary Boynton is not only a mother feeding 6 kids, she’s not only the author of the GAPS cookbook Heal Your Gut, but as you just heard she’s a powerhouse who went…

Bonus interview with Lindsay Miles about quitting supermarket from her plastic-free living perspective.

There’s a lot of talk about sustainability, but much of it misses the wisdom that our ancestors have to show us in the ways they farmed and ate for centuries. Hear Andrea and I talk about practical sustainability for all our kitchens in this episode.