#126 - Living Like a Human with Tara Couture of Slowdown Farmstead

About this episode

Alison and Andrea discuss living life at a human pace with guest Tara Couture.

When Alison and I were starting this podcast, she asked who was on my dream list of people to talk to. I said Tara Couture of Slowdown Farmstead and today that is what happened. In an incredibly long and appropriately slow morning we sat down together to talk for the first time and it was like visiting with an old friend I had waited a very long time to see again. Tara once shared her life on Instagram and I followed her avidly there, listening to her wisdom both practical and philosophical on butchery and growing and shifting, and how in the midst of life we are in death. Taking words from the screen to the printed page, Tara recently wrote a book, Radiance of the Ordinary. Since I had dropped off social media and Tara soon would herself, I was no longer reading her words, so when my copy arrived in the mail it felt like unwrapping a long-awaited, much anticipated letter from a beloved mentor. In this episode we discussed many things including what does it look like to be living life at a human pace, as a human, in an ever-increasingly inhumane world? Is it even possible or practical to be a human in a world that expects you to be, and treats you as, a machine? Tara and I went…

People in this episode

Hosts: Alison Kay, Andrea Huehnerhoff

Guest: Tara Couture

Topics covered

• human pace
• butchery
• philosophy
• life and death
• slow living

Keywords

• human pace
• Tara Couture
• Slowdown Farmstead
• butchery
• slow living
• philosophy
• Radiance of the Ordinary

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Slowdown Farmstead

Books & works: Radiance of the Ordinary

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