This week on Calling in the Healers, I walk the fields with Amy June — seed keeper, farmer, community member, and co-founder of Goodway Farm — to explore how seeds, soil, and the slow rhythms of land stewardship can change our inner lives and the ecosystems we share. Amy June invites us into the deeper memory held inside every seed: a lineage carried across continents, braided into hair during forced migration, tended by ancestors who refused to let culture, nourishment, or hope disappear. Together we talk about: • Why seeds are past, present, and future• Food access as healing — how Goodway Farm offers free, abundant CSA boxes to neighbors through local partnerships• Slowness as medicine — how seasons, weather, and labor reshape the mind, soften the nervous system, and teach interdependence• The shame many families carry around agricultural work — and what it means to reclaim farming as skill, heritage, and liberation• Networks of practice — why building community across differences strengthens our capacity to solve problems together• The joy of contribution — how showing up, even imperfectly, grows belonging• The vibrant ecosystem of Lawrence — a community full of people nudging in the same direction, each carrying a piece of the work Amy June’s story is a reminder that healing is not abstract. It's in bodies that plant and harvest, in relationships, in neighborhoods fed, and in the seeds we choose to carry forward. Listen if you’re curious about:✓ Seed keeping and food sovereignty✓ How land-based practices transform mental, emotional, and physical health✓ Regenerative agriculture in hyper-local communities✓ Place-rooted healing, mutual aid, and community networks✓ What it looks like to build a local food system grounded in care rather than extraction ✨ Calling in the Healers uplifts hyper-local stories that help us see healing as a collective project — intergenerational, ecological, and rooted in place. 🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and iHeartRadio.
