American Thought Leaders — How Regenerative Farming Can Help Solve America’s Metabolic Disease Problem. Host Jan Jekeliek and guest Mollie Engelhart (10/15/24, podcast 33 min)

Learn why Mollie Engelhart — a regenerative farmer and entrepreneur — believes regenerative agriculture is the best way forward for humans, animals, and the planet. She left California due to heavy regulations and fallout from COVID-19 restrictions, restarting from scratch in Texas.

This episode takes an in-depth tour of her 200+ acre Sovereignty Ranch, which raises cows, goats, pigs, sheep, chickens and numerous food crops. It also includes an event center, accommodations (tiny houses, containers, and barn houses), a dairy operation, Barn restaurant, planned brewery, and more.

Engelhart states:

• More than 50 percent of Americans are metabolically unhealthy.

• All of our food comes from these industrial systems that has been sterilized, and we’re not replenishing our microbiology when we’re eating the foods of the current systems.

• This is not a future crisis that we need to talk about ... this is happening right now.

• We can’t just depend on rice from China, and wheat from Ukraine, and lentils from Africa

• Having these hubs that are growing food for the community—that is real resilience, and that is real security. And that is what I want to bring back.