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From Urban Junk-Food Junkie to Farmer

October 28, 2020 / 23:14/S3 E66

We chat with Kentucky farm educator and homesteader John Moody to learn how a junk-food-eating city kid ended up as a farmer and farm educator. Moody, who had been heading towards a career in academia so that he could teach, says that in hindsight, “I got a farm so I can teach.”After a health scare, Moody and his wife began to change their eating habits, buy more whole foods and locally grown foods. With the change in food buying habits, he noticed that his food bill went way up. “The farmers aren’t getting any of this money I’m spending,” he thought.His interest in growing food evolved out of his interest in healthy food—especially after meeting farmers who were sceptical about cutting their use of external inputs. So he set out to do it himself.

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We chat with Kentucky farm educator and homesteader John Moody to learn how a junk-food-eating city kid ended up as a farmer and farm educator. Moody, who had been heading towards a career in academia so that he could teach, says that in hindsight, “I got a farm so I can teach.”

After a health scare, Moody and his wife began to change their eating habits, buy more whole foods and locally grown foods. With the change in food buying habits, he noticed that his food bill went way up. “The farmers aren’t getting any of this money I’m spending,” he thought.

His interest in growing food evolved out of his interest in healthy food—especially after meeting farmers who were sceptical about cutting their use of external inputs. So he set out to do it himself.

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