Food Freedom Starts in the Soil: An Ancestral Asian Approach

About this episode

Corey and Christine discuss food freedom and Korean Natural Farming with guest Sophie Eng, exploring sustainable practices and community in parenting.

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust. Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com What if everything your garden needs is already sitting in your kitchen? In this episode, Corey and Christine welcome back Sophie Eng, author of The Nourishing Asian Kitchen and the forthcoming The Nourishing Asian Homestead. The daughter of Vietnamese refugees, Sophie grew up beside her grandfather's garden, learning to ferment, compost, and work with the land long before she knew it had a name. She and her husband Tim traded Silicon Valley for six acres in California and now homestead on 40 acres off the side of a mountain in East Tennessee, where they're raising their two daughters in the traditions their family carried across an ocean. Together, they dig into Korean Natural Farming (KNF), the centuries-old Asian approach Sophie and her whole family got certified in, built on one deceptively simple idea: feed the soil, not the plant. Sophie shares how she turns rice rinse water, leftover milk, fish scraps, and fast-growing weeds like kudzu into free, truly organic fertilizers, the same "liquid gold" her…

People in this episode

Hosts: Corey Dunn, Christine Muldoon

Guest: Sophie Eng

Topics covered

• food freedom
• Korean Natural Farming
• homesteading
• organic fertilizers
• parenting
• community

Keywords

• food freedom
• Korean Natural Farming
• organic fertilizers
• homesteading
• parenting
• community

Sponsors

Earthley

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Nourishing Asian Kitchen, The Nourishing Asian Homestead

Places: Vietnam, California, East Tennessee

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