The Regenaissance Podcast

The Regenaissance
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Hosted by @Regenaisanceman with the mission of reconnecting us back to where our food is grown & exposing everything that is wrong with our broken food system. We are more disconnected from our food than we ever have been. I sit down with ranchers and farmers to give them a voice and hear their stories, helping paint a picture of what it really looks like to support humanity with food. I also will be talking to others involved in the agriculture space as there is a lot that goes into it all. My hope is that from hearing this podcast you will begin to question what you eat and where from.

  1. Meet Francine. The Farm Mom Who built The App To Challenge Big Food - Francine | #117

    14h ago

    Meet Francine. The Farm Mom Who built The App To Challenge Big Food - Francine | #117

    Francine is a farmer, mom of four, and co-founder of the Mulberry Tree App - a farm-to-fork platform that lets consumers buy ingredients directly from local farms, with no listing fees, no middleman, and no data selling. She and her husband built it from scratch, self-funded, while navigating mold illness, alpha-gal syndrome in their family, and a bunch of scammers! They launched the app in January 2025. We talk through how the app works, why convenience is the real barrier between consumers and local farms, and what it actually takes to build something like this without outside funding or corporate backing. Enjoy :) What we talk about: - How the Mulberry Tree App works - farm-to-fork recipes, local farmer discovery, 24/7 farmers market- Why they don't charge farmers listing or marketing fees- Facebook censorship of farm products during COVID and why it pushed them to build their own platform- The grassroots marketing approach: vendor events, merchandise, one-on-one outreach- Alpha-gal syndrome - what it is, how misinformation is hurting people, and why the app has 300+ alpha-gal-safe recipes- Mold illness, raising four kids on a farm, and the tribulations behind building the business- The case for food sovereignty and why 77 farms closing per day is a national problem Timestamps: 0:00 — Intro1:10 — What is the Mulberry Tree App?6:45 — How it handles the convenience problem for consumers12:00 — The origin story - a dream, a husband, and no coding experience18:30 — Facebook censorship and why decentralization matters26:00 — Grassroots marketing: vendor events, shirts, 400 downloads in two weeks32:00 — Consumer patterns and what makes the app experience different39:00 — The town square, courses, live animal listings, and cottage industry sellers47:00 — Growing up on farms, moving to Arkansas, raising kids outside the system54:00 — Mold illness, alpha-gal, and the year their son was on steroids1:04:00 — Why most businesses fail and why they didn't1:09:00 — Final thoughts: know your farmer, know your food How to Support Francine: Download the app via their website Connect with her via X

    59 min
  2. Polyunsaturated Fats, Metabolic Health, and Fixing The American Food System - Ash Armstrong | #116

    Jun 17

    Polyunsaturated Fats, Metabolic Health, and Fixing The American Food System - Ash Armstrong | #116

    Ashley Armstrong is a first-generation regenerative farmer and co-founder of Strong Sistas, a health platform born out of her own autoimmune diagnosis. She built Angel Acres Farm in Southwest Michigan from the ground up, producing corn- and soy-free eggs, and went on to found Nourish Food Club - a cooperative network of small regenerative farms supplying clean, transparently raised food directly to families.What We Cover How Ashley went from graduate school to building a regenerative farm from scratchWhy conventional chicken and pork now have a fatty acid profile closer to seed oils than real meatThe 100-year shift in dietary fats and what it's doing to human metabolismHow Nourish Food Club is reviving the farm cooperative model to support small farmersThe bureaucratic bullying small farms face daily - and why the system is designed against themTimestamps 00:00 – Ashley's health crisis and path to farming 06:30 – Building Angel Acres from scratch 13:00 – Lessons from 12 years of competitive golf 18:45 – How Nourish Food Club works 26:00 – Why cheap and quality food can't coexist 33:30 – The 100-year shift away from saturated fat 42:00 – How corn and soy changed pork and chicken 49:30 – Phytonutrients in pasture-raised meat 56:00 – Why grocery labels are meaningless 01:03:00 – The problem with indoor farming 01:09:30 – Bureaucratic bullying and the jerky incident 01:17:00 – Why small farm costs are structurally higher 01:28:00 – Where consumers can start Links WebsiteInstagramYouTube Regenaissance YouTube Channel About The Podcast: The Regenaissance Podcast explores the people, farms, and ideas rebuilding our food system from the ground up.

    1h 46m

  3. May 28

    How Maple Syrup Is Truly Made (Inside a 107-Year-Old Vermont Farm) - Baird Maple Farm Highlights

    Baird Maple Syrup Farm in Vermont has been producing maple syrup for over a century. I visit with farm managers and sugar makers, Jacob and Jenna Baird. Jenna is the fifth generation of her family to work this land. What We Cover How maple syrup is made (and why most people have it wrong).The modern sugar bush (100+ miles of tubing, vacuum systems, and leak-chasing).Reading labels (how to spot fake or blended "maple" products at the grocery store).The full production season why it's a 6-week sprint, what starts it, and what ends it).Farm succession and conservation (how the Baird family is transitioning a 107-year-old farm to the next generation). Timestamps 00:00 — Welcome to Baird Farm: 107 years of maple and dairy history 02:00 — Why it's so hard to keep a farm across generations 08:00 — Sap vs. syrup: what you're actually pulling from the tree 09:00 — How to read a maple syrup label (and spot the fakes) 11:00 — How vacuum tubing works and why it doubles production 17:00 — How tapping actually works: drilling, spouts, and tree health 21:00 — The production season: a 6-week window from February to April 34:00 — Farm succession: leasing to own and navigating family transitions 43:00 — Reverse osmosis and the sugar house: how sap becomes syrup 47:00 — Sugar maple vs. red maple: how to tell them apart in the bush Connect with Jason & Baird Farm: WebsiteInstagramFollow our Youtube Channel

    49 min
  4. Why I Feel Called To Manage Animals Responsibly | Bryson Lipscomb

    May 20

    Why I Feel Called To Manage Animals Responsibly | Bryson Lipscomb

    Farmer Stories pulls the best conversations from The Regenaissance archive - real voices from American farmers on the systems, economics, and communities shaping food and land in the US. Triple Oaks Farm is a family-run regenerative farm in Virginia, raising pastured pigs and other livestock with a focus on food sovereignty, stewardship, and community. Timestamps: 00:00 – Biblical dominion and why he left USDA butchers 06:00 – PSE meat explained: what stress does to pork quality 09:00 – Electro stunning abuse and burn wounds on the meat 16:00 – USDA butcher threatens to ice him out as a customer 19:00 – The final straw: filthy shop, wrong pig returned, going full PMA Connect With Bryson: WebsiteInstagram Follow the tour on YouTube

    29 min
  5. Why Farmers Need To Be Profitable, 3am Burnout, & Why Amish-Mennonite Community Still Works | Tony Eash

    May 13

    Why Farmers Need To Be Profitable, 3am Burnout, & Why Amish-Mennonite Community Still Works | Tony Eash

    Tony Eash runs Triple E Farms in West Virginia with his brother Phil - a raw dairy and pasture-raised operation built from bare land, rooted in regenerative principles and faith in community. Farmer Stories pulls the best conversations from The Regenaissance archive - real voices from American farmers on the systems, economics, and communities shaping food and land in the US. Timestamps: 0:00 — Why farmers not making money is everyone's problem 1:00 — What on-farm milk testing actually costs 2:00 — Building a farm from scratch while working full-time 5:00 — Quitting time: 10:30pm. Wake up: 3:30am 6:30 — Why they walked away from pigs and chickens 8:00 — How the Amish moving in changed everything Connect with Triple E WebsiteInstagramWatch full episode Follow the tour on YouTube

    17 min
  6. A Danish Energy Giant (Ørsted) Is Coming After My Ranch - Casey Murph | #115

    May 7

    A Danish Energy Giant (Ørsted) Is Coming After My Ranch - Casey Murph | #115

    Ørsted, a Danish renewable energy giant, is trying to lease 4,000 acres of Casey's state grazing land in Arizona to build an industrial solar array - land that he depends on for winter range, without which the ranch isn't viable. Casey believes productive grazing land shouldn't be touched when there's no shortage of barren desert, parking lots, and brownfields that could take solar instead - and the companies could do it if they wanted to, they just won't because it's cheaper and easier to go after open range. Casey Murph is a fifth-generation cattle rancher in northeastern Arizona. This episode covers that fight, and what's at stake for generational ranching in America. 5 Key Topics: How Ørsted is attempting to take Casey's winter range for industrial solarWhy solar should go on parking lots and brownfields, not productive grazing landØrsted's existing Arizona install powers a Meta data centre, not homesThe collapse of independent beef operations and what it's done to supply and priceCasey's strategy: state land pressure, political allies, and buying timeTimestamps: 00:00 - Casey intro02:00 - The Ørsted solar threat05:00 - Foreign-owned conglomerates09:00 - Urban disconnection from food11:00 - Where solar should go instead18:00 - Political strategy and allies19:00 - Ørsted's Pinal County install: homes promised, Meta data centre delivered28:00 - Beef supply consolidation31:00 - Feedlots and grass-finishing36:00 - Approval timeline and how to help Connect with Casey:X

    44 min
  7. Instilling The Right Values In Kids - Intergenerational Culture, Self-Sovereignty, Curiosity | Ben & Hannah Yoder

    Apr 30

    Instilling The Right Values In Kids - Intergenerational Culture, Self-Sovereignty, Curiosity | Ben & Hannah Yoder

    Ben and Hannah Yoder run Savage Mountain Farm, a 150-acre diversified, full-diet CSA on the Pennsylvania–Maryland line, rooted in Amish–Mennonite heritage and natural methods, raising produce, mushrooms, and pastured livestock while blending regenerative farming with homeschooling, community engagement, and a family-centered lifestyle. Farmer Stories pulls the best conversations from The Regenaissance archive - real voices from American farmers on the systems, economics, and communities shaping food and land in the US. Timestamps00:00:00 Why they homeschool 00:01:30 School as fear, not learning 00:03:00 Preserving curiosity over teaching content 00:05:30 Disconnection from food as root cause 00:06:30 Age segregation & lost intergenerational culture 00:08:00 No screens - kids who can entertain themselves 00:10:00 Modeling self-sovereignty on the farm 00:11:30 Owning your day - the case for farming Connect with Savage Mountain: WebsiteInstagram Follow the tour on YouTube

    13 min
  8. Exposing How Big Brands Fake "Pasture Raised" Eggs - Patrick Samuels @Sunnyside | #114

    Apr 22

    Exposing How Big Brands Fake "Pasture Raised" Eggs - Patrick Samuels @Sunnyside | #114

    Patrick Samuels is the founder of Sunnyside Egg Co., a Kentucky-based regenerative egg operation built on mobile coops and Amish/Mennonite farming partnerships. A former US Army Special Forces officer with no agricultural background, Patrick stumbled into farming through pandemic-era homesteading, worked inside one of the largest pasture-raised egg brands, and launched Sunnyside in December 2024 to scale what he calls the only truly regenerative egg operation in the country. 5 Key Topics The pasture-raised label scamMobile coops as the real standardScaling regen without selling outThe corn/soy-free feed debateTransparency over certificationTimestamps [00:00] Intro & egg price controversy [01:30] Patrick's military-to-farming path [04:00] Inside a "pasture-raised" barn [07:00] Why certifiers are grifters [11:00] The Vital Farms breakdown [18:00] Retail vs. decentralisation debate [27:00] Corn & soy-free feed complexity [37:00] Regenerative certification loopholes [44:00] Sunnyside's growth timeline [01:01:00] On-farm operations & rotation Links Website Instagram

    1h 8m
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About

Hosted by @Regenaisanceman with the mission of reconnecting us back to where our food is grown & exposing everything that is wrong with our broken food system. We are more disconnected from our food than we ever have been. I sit down with ranchers and farmers to give them a voice and hear their stories, helping paint a picture of what it really looks like to support humanity with food. I also will be talking to others involved in the agriculture space as there is a lot that goes into it all. My hope is that from hearing this podcast you will begin to question what you eat and where from.

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  • Creator
    The Regenaissance
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    139
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © The Regenaissance
  • Show Website
    The Regenaissance Podcast

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