Farm to Body Wellness

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast. Starting over or starting from scratch is a commonly used strategy after months or years of distress and discontentment. Many who fall in this category who potentially start over once, will likely start over more than once. By changing our mindset to a place of resetting at our current location and starting from where we stand, we can more easily make...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast. This week the episode is related to the RAM Recipe of the month. I had a basil plant that was extremely large and it seemed about time to cut it back. I have been on a kick of making sauces and spreads recently. Chili Garlic Oil, Chimichurri, Teriyaki Sauce, recently Roasted Garlic, and not Pesto. As with prior episodes, I talk more about the plant and...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast. This week ended up being another special request… partially a recommendation by my wife and then a friend (and member of the community) had a question that aligned with the topic. There seems to be a lot of confusion around our food these days and what is “healthy” and what is not. “Highly even Ultra Processed Foods” are not necessarily bad for us, but...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast. This week, by special request… which I did not mention in the episode, I am talking about meal prepping versus batch cooking. It is an interesting ever evolving topic which I ended up going back and adding a few things. If you notice what happened let me know. I am curious how the sound quality is through the course of this episode. While there are a l...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast. I have not spoken recently about what I am doing with RAM (Riverside Arts Market), so I figured I would take an episode and kind of go into it a bit. There is not much to discuss here, so if you are a local to Jacksonville or Northeast Florida or are interested in what I am doing, come take a listen. Otherwise, this might not be the episode for you. I...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast. In this episode I dive into the world of sustainability. When most people think of sustainability they immediately go to the environment and the potential catastrophe that we are currently projected to end up in the upcoming decades. Many people look at the macro changes that need to take place in order to fix all of the world's environmental probl...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast. This week is a special topic. Simply because I could not figure out what to speak about, so the idea came from my amazing wife. This week I am giving an overview on institutional food service management. What is this one might ask? Essentially, this is food service for schools, universities, hospitals, long term care facilities and many more.  A lot of...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast. Vanilla Bean Extract is something that I have made now three times in my life. The batch size that I made is fairly large and given that I do not use it so often, I have quite a bit left. Over the years, I have given it to friends and family, but still have quite a bit remaining. For the past four to five months, I have needed to make a new (the third)...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast. Linguistics or language is possibly one of the most difficult aspects to understand in life. What someone is intending to say and how it is interpreted could be the same or completely different. Have you ever played the game telephone, either as a child or as an adult? And that is just saying the words, not even understanding the meaning.  Within food...

Welcome Back to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast. Last week we spoke about social movements and this week we are going to talk about physically moving. There is a lot of importance in adding physical activity to our lives and sometimes the most difficult step is knowing where to begin. I am here this week to help give you a few ideas and help you determine where you are and how you can begin or c...

Welcome Back to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast. There are many movements out there. Some that have been around for an extremely long time. Some that were created due to a disconnect from the human to nature. And others that I am not even aware about. The three major points in this episode are: The Slow Food Movement, The Farm to Table Movement, & a discussion about Farmers Markets. I realiz...

Welcome Back to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast. In a world full of utter chaos and inequality, many people tend to leave out the idea of equity. The concept of equity & equality drives the difference between needs, wants, and overall fairness in regards to health. My mother used to tell me "Life isn't fair" and I understand that now, more than ever. So, in this episode I dive...

Welcome Back to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast.  Since December, I have been radio silent. A lot has been going on and it is now time to hit the reset button and go again. I am in a new closet, much bigger than before. Although I am concerned with sound quality. We are going scriptless today and for the hopefully foreseeable future. I can not promise anything other than, it is my goal to provid...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast.  The holiday season is upon us and in this episode I am going to discuss habits that surround our favorite holiday season. I will dive deep into the holiday culture and how it is affected by and in turn affects agriculture, food, and most importantly the ingredients we use in our cooking. This should be a fairly fun episode, but I might give you a coup...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast.  In this episode… Oh in this episode, I dive deeper into agriculture, food, nutrition labels, and ingredients. This one is going to be a dosey, so if you want to hear me rant a little bit and talk about what I know is going on in our food system then buckle up. There are some serious differences between the food in the US and the food in the EU and abr...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast.  In the last episode we discussed the second half of what became a two part series. We continued talking about much of what I have been realizing about the perception of health and a planned pathway to getting to our best selves. We must envision our goal and use critical thinking to get us there. This week we are returning to the new path I found for...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast.  Last week’s episode gave me so much joy and direction, that I decided to make it a two part series. After realizing that in order to really understand food systems as a whole, we must veer off the main path and move over to related topics which will create a foundation for what we are going to be learning. In this episode I go deeper into what I start...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast.  This week, I began by veering off the path of direct food systems into what some might say is considered to be related topics. Although, in this episode I don't really cover any of the larger concepts in the food systems. Instead, I draw a foundation for prioritizing your health. What I realized is that it really just is eating better and doing a litt...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast.  In last week's episode we steered the podcast back into the direction of food systems. We found a new path within food systems that covers many topics about a specific fruit and/or vegetable. Last week I spoke about Greens and Mircorgreens, and this week we are going to talk about their plant relative, but not actually related to one another… squash....

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast.  We have finally made it back into the realm of food systems. It has taken me a while to get back, but we arrived. This week the topic is greens, microgreens, baby greens, and sprouts. This episode is not quite a series, but it does give quite a few interesting takes on the differences between them and a few stigmas around them. The main message is to...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast.  This episode goes a little off the normal path of food systems. More so than usual. But at the time of the creation and recording of the episode, a lot had just occurred. In relation to Judaism, it was the one year anniversary of October 7th and it was also during the timeframe of the two most holy days in Judaism, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. I am n...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast. As you all know, I have been doing monologues since we started. The original idea of this podcast was for me to give out non-biased information, or at least as unbiased as possible that could give listeners a fuller picture in order to make informed decisions on their own. With that in mind, most of the podcast would be just me speaking into the microp...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast. After living in Kentucky off and on for about 15 years, I had several deeply rooted connections with both farmers markets and many of the farmers who sell products there. I have seen many farmers leave the market scene and others join. It is a very interesting eb and flow to watch as time goes on. Having moved to Florida I had to restart this connectio...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast. You all know that I have been doing monologues since we started. The original idea of this podcast was for me to give out non-biased information, or at least as unbiased as possible that could give listeners a fuller picture in order to make informed decisions on their own. With that in mind, most of the podcast would be just me speaking into the micro...

Welcome to the Farm to Body Wellness Podcast. Labor day was almost four weeks ago and while I was there enjoying a charcoal grilled meal, it gave me the idea to discuss this topic. Today we are going to talk about Grilling, Carcinogens, and the American Experience. Many days throughout the year residents of the United States take part in grilling out. Sometimes through natural gas and other times...