PPP 42: The Call to Slow Down, Create from Scratch & Cultivate Old-Fashioned Skills w/ Jill Winger of The Prairie Homestead

About this episode

Jill Winger discusses the importance of old-fashioned skills and their impact on modern life.

Jill is the founder of The Prairie Homestead, a cornerstone of the modern homesteading movement since 2010. She is passionate about teaching old-fashioned skills, and encouraging a more thoughtful, time-honored approach to modern life. Her practical and authentic style of teaching and storytelling has won the hearts of hundreds of thousands of homesteaders through her best-selling cookbook, across social media, and via her top-ranked Old-Fashioned on Purpose podcast, which has amassed over 5 million downloads since its inception. She has been featured in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, Wyoming PBS, and People magazine. And today we are chatting about soil and food and all the ways these things influence our lives!

People in this episode

Host: Andrea Thompson

Guest: Jill Winger

Topics covered

• homesteading
• old-fashioned skills
• food
• soil
• modern life

Keywords

• homesteading
• cooking
• sustainability
• gardening
• self-sufficiency

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Prairie Homestead, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Wyoming PBS, People

Books & works: Old-Fashioned on Purpose

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