About this episode

Jennie Love discusses her health journey and the importance of supporting personal gut biomes for better farming and community health.

Welcome to Season 5 of No-Till Flowers! It's good to be back!! We're starting off with a fairly personal episode as I share what's changed for me and my health in 2024. This past season was my 17 th season farming and selling flowers. There has been a lot of wear and tear on my body, mind and spirit along the way. I would wager heavily that no small business owner understands what they are signing up for at the beginning. Or even many years into it. The first 10 or so years are just holding on for dear life. The highs and lows of this rollercoaster ride lurch your emotions and mind all over the place. For too long, we define success as making a sale and making a customer happy. In most cases, we outright forfeit our own well-being. At least that certainly was the case for me. When our bodies are under chronic elevated stress and we're not eating well (which pretty much describes every farmer), our internal ecosystem starts to break down. Our bodies host trillions of microbes that that make us surprisingly similar to soil biomes. In this episode, we learn about how to better support our personal gut biomes so we can better support our farms and larger communities. My guest today…

People in this episode

Host: Jennie Love

Guest: Susan Brown

Topics covered

• functional medicine
• gut biome
• stress management
• farming health
• personal well-being

Keywords

• functional medicine
• gut health
• stress
• farming
• microbes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nourish with Susan Brown, Institute for Functional Medicine

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