As people who have been created by God, we have a unique opportunity to have a hands-on, intimate role in cultivating sacred places on this earth. 🌍 We also have the choice and ability to contribute to desecration if we so wish. Which will it be?

Let's explore HOW we can we take seriously the great privilege we’ve been given to tend and cultivate good things on this earth - not just on Earth Day (April 22nd), but as a way we live our lives all the time. This episode is chock-full of inspiration and ideas for you to do just that, right where you are.

I also include some spring bucket list items and resources so you can take some intentional steps to soak up all the beauty of this season. Don’t miss it! 🌿

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SHOW NOTES:

• Join my email community at ChristineMarieBailey.com and my free guides to growing basil, gardening with children, listen to the first chapter of my audio book, and more!

• 1000 Hours Outside app

• American Meadows - buy wildflower seeds for your region

• Johnny’s Seeds - buy sunflower and other flower seeds friendly for pollinators

• Health Benefits of Grounding (Earthing)

• Hello Spring - Playlist on Apple Music

• Spring Joyride - Playlist on Apple music

• My Adventure Guide to Middle TN Waterfalls

• Our spring bookshelf display

• Blog post - Favorite Spring Children’s Books

• Blog post - Dandelions Forever (and Recipes to Make With Them!)

• Go to this episode’s blog post for photos and more at ChristineMarieBailey.com/blog.

• Grab a copy of my book, The Kindred Life: Stories and Recipes to Cultivate a Life of Organic Connection.

• Follow me on Instagram @organicstine and @thekindredfarm.

• Visit my Amazon storefront for favorite books, things I mention on the podcast, and more! As an Amazon influencer, I earn commission from qualified purchases.

Wanderlust, anyone? 🙋🏻‍♀️ Join me and Steven for another free-flowing chat from the barn studio here on Kindred Farm, and this time, we're sharing 4 of our favorite North Carolina mountain towns (that all happen to begin with the letter B!).

In this casual, fun conversation, we also talk about the importance of leaving space for adventure, supporting local businesses, and one of the most memorable mountain moments I can remember.

You’ve given us feedback that these types of episodes make you feel like you’re sitting around the dining room table with us, which we love. Listen in!

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SHOW NOTES:

• Go to this episode’s blog post for photos and more.

• Beech Mountain Love - blog post

• Our visit to Altapass Apple Orchard

• Emerald Outback hike in Beech Mountain

• Beech Mountain sunrise

• Epic waterfall hike in Beech Mountain

• Mast General Store

• Blue Deer in Boone and Blowing Rock

• Mystic Illusion dahlia

• Join our Kindred Farm email list to have first access to dinner tickets and other events and classes!

• Grab a copy of my book, The Kindred Life: Stories and Recipes to Cultivate a Life of Organic Connection.

• Join my email community at ChristineMarieBailey.com and get some fun freebies for signing up.

• Follow me on Instagram @organicstine and @thekindredfarm.

• Visit my Amazon storefront for favorite books, things I mention on the podcast, and more! As an Amazon influencer, I earn commission from qualified purchases.

Join me as I chat with Sophia Eng, a first-generation Vietnamese American, sought-after speaker, podcast host, and author of the brand new, beautiful cookbook, The Nourishing Asian Kitchen. She’s also one of my fellow Tennessee farmers! Sophia recently left a successful Silicon Valley career to start a 5-acre permaculture mini farm with her family in east Tennessee in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. 🌄

As a busy, full-time working mom and homesteader, Sophia Eng is making nourishing, simple Asian recipes doable for anyone. 🍜 As Sophia says, “If I can do it, you can do it. It starts with one recipe at a time.”

In this episode, you’ll go on a journey with Sophia from urban California to a homestead in East Tennessee and hear how her Vietnamese heritage guided her along the way as she wrote her cookbook and started a farm. As she shares the powerful steps she took to turn her family towards land stewardship, nourishment, and community, you’ll be empowered to implement some of these practices in your own life and home.

Some of the topics we talk about:

• Taking risks & living boldly

• Multi-generational living & preserving family heritage

• How to prepare for the future through healthy food & lifestyle choices

• Why bartering and trading are practices we need to keep alive

• “The beautiful web of being in community” and why it’s important

LISTEN IN, and let Sophia inspire you to nourish yourself and your family well, starting today! 💚

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SHOW NOTES:

• The Nourishing Asian Kitchen by Sophia Eng

• Sophia Eng on Instagram: @sprinklewithsoil

• Sophia Eng’s Website: sprinklewithsoil.com

• Call To Farms Podcast with Tim & Sophia Eng

• Sophia’s Chicken Pho Masterclass

• Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon

• Weston A. Price Foundation

• Go to this episode’s blog post for photos and more at ⁠ChristineMarieBailey.com/blog⁠.

• Grab a copy of my book, ⁠The Kindred Life: Stories and Recipes to Cultivate a Life of Organic Connection⁠.

• Join my email community at ⁠ChristineMarieBailey.com⁠ and get some fun freebies for signing up.

• Follow me on Instagram ⁠@organicstine⁠ and ⁠@thekindredfarm⁠.

• ⁠Visit my Amazon storefront⁠ for all the things I talk about on the podcast, fave books and more! As an Amazon influencer, I earn commission from qualified purchases.