19: The Sourdough School Podcast - Josiah Meldrum Founder of Hodmedods on Botanical Blend Flour & Lifestyle Medicine

Update: 2024-11-12

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🎙️ New Podcast Episode: Botanical Blend Flour with Josiah Meldrum, Co-founder of Hodmedod’s

In this episode, I’m joined by Josiah Meldrum, co-founder of Hodmedod’s, to talk about something very close to both our hearts: Botanical Blend flour.

This flour is unlike anything found in the average bakery. It’s milled from a diverse, carefully selected blend of British-grown grains, seeds, pulses, and botanicals — designed not only to nourish the gut and support mental and physical health, but also to regenerate the soil and the food system from the ground up.

Josiah and I explore:

How Botanical Blend flour is a living expression of diversity — in farming, in nutrition, and in culture.

Why growing for health means growing with purpose — using British grains, beans, and plants that work in harmony with nature.

The relationship between soil biodiversity and human microbiome health — and why it matters that your bread starts in the field.

The collaboration between farmers, millers, and bakers that makes this flour possible — a system of shared values and long-term thinking.

This flour isn’t just an ingredient. It’s an intervention. Botanical Blend is a foundation of the BALM Protocol and a practical answer to some of the most urgent health, environmental, and social issues of our time.

🎧 Listen now for a behind-the-scenes conversation about how and why this flour was created — and why it’s a quiet but radical step toward systemic change.

There are many conversations about bread out there. This one is about flour that makes a difference.