PPP 42: The Call to Slow Down, Create from Scratch & Cultivate Old-Fashioned Skills w/ Jill Winger of The Prairie Homestead
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You’re listening to the Permaculture Princess Podcast, this is episode #42.
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</figure>Jill is the founder of The Prairie Homestead, a cornerstone of the modern homesteading movement since 2010. She is passionate about teaching old-fashioned skills, and encouraging a more thoughtful, time-honored approach to modern life. Her practical and authentic style of teaching and storytelling has won the hearts of hundreds of thousands of homesteaders through her best-selling cookbook, across social media, and via her top-ranked Old-Fashioned on Purpose podcast, which has amassed over 5 million downloads since its inception. She has been featured in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, Wyoming PBS, and People magazine. And today we are chatting about soil and food and all the ways these things influence our lives! So, stick around to meet the lovely, Jill Winger.
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</figure>In This Episode You’ll Learn:
- A little background on Jill Winger, how she started in Idaho and ended up in Wyoming, and how the homesteading bug bit her and her family. How it takes some trial and error to navigate the homesteading lifestyle.
- Why soil health matters and how we can help our soil. (The microbes in the soil are amazing!) Also, the importance of learning what soil/landscapes/zones we live in and how that should inform how we grow food.
- Why growing our own food matters and how we can heal disconnected families through food.
- The religion of consumerism and how it has taken over our society. She talks about how food can sometimes wake us up to the dangers of our consumer-driven lifestyle.
- The ability to shift or consider different paradigms and learn something new.
- How homesteading or old-fashioned skills can help both our physical and mental health. The importance of paying attention to our bodies and how various places and spaces influence our energy.
- “Old Fashioned on Purpose”-Jill’s new book and what inspired it.
- Her beliefs on a more abundant life and how abundance is a mindset!
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</figure>Resources We Mention:
- Jill’s website
- Jill’s new book “Old Fashioned On Purpose: Cultivating a Slower, More Joyful Life”
- Wendell Berry books “The Unsettling of America”
- “What Our Food Ate” David Montgomery
- Michael Pollan “Cooked”, “The Omnivore’s Dillemma”, and many others!
- “The Maker’s Diet” by Jordan Rubin
- Instagram handle @Jill.winger
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