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  • How do you eat ancestrally and seasonally even during winter, when the produce stands maybe are shut down and your garden may be covered over with snow for the season and your body needs a different kind of support than it does during the busy, active days of summer? In this episode Alison and Kathie, who is a longtime listener, supporter and friend of the podcast, got to talk about all of these topics and much more. Kathie is the creator of Homespun Seasonal Living, one of my favourite websites for pulling recipes, and Kathie is an expert and authority on all things food preservation, gardening and storage.

    In this episode they covered some great winter vegetable and fruit options, storage of winter produce, and of course preservation methods including canning, freezing, dehydrating and fermenting, and of course the often debated topic of nutrient loss during preservation. They also discussed aspects of combatting winter food boredom by creating variety in the diet and ways to alleviate the heaviness of winter food. They also covered some interesting ideas for using spices and sauerkraut, different ways of using microgreens and sprouts, and Kathie created a wonderful Winter Eating Guide that listeners can download in the show notes. Kathie is also the creator of one of my very favourite mailing lists, and you can sign up for her mailing list in the show notes right now and get the Winter Eating Guide as well as some other benefits on top that if you like. I love the recipes I've gotten from her mailing list and she is so creative with her use of herbs and her different cosy beverages and things that she comes up with. I am looking forward to hearing how you enjoy this episode and what you and your family do to keep things cosy and local during the winter.

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    Alison's Sowans oat fermentation course is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Get 10% off any course at The Fermentation School: click here and use code AKP at checkout.

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  • What is a Christmas pudding and how did it develop into the U.K.'s favourite festive dessert? What's inside one and, importantly, how can you make one in your kitchen?

    In this episode we'll talk about the fascinating history of Christmas pudding and then dive into the practicalities of making your very own festive pudding.

    What are the ingredients? How can you combine them? What's the cooking method? How do you serve it and what can you do with the leftovers?

    We'll cover recipes from as far back as 1300 right up to the modern day and you will leave excited and ready to bring to life this traditional British Christmas desert in your own kitchen wherever you live in the world.

    We'll both be cooking up a Christmas pudding this year, we love it if you would join us. Check out the free download with folklore, recipes and tips that's available for all listeners below.

    Thanks to our supporters Andrea and I have recently invested in some new recording equipment. This means that future podcasts will be clearer. But, as we all know, new technologies have teething problems. And we experienced them here. This episode is clear, but, some of it isn't as high-quality as you are used to from us and we apologise for that. It won't take away from your enjoyment of Christmas puddings.

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    Alison's course, Rye Sourdough Bread: Mastering The Basics is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Alison's Sowans oat fermentation course is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Get 10% off any course at The Fermentation School: click here and use code AKP at checkout.

    Get 10% off US/Canada Bokashi supplies: click here and use code AKP.

    Get 10% off UK Bokashi supplies.

    Visit our (non-Amazon!) bookshop for a vast selection of ancestral cookbooks: US link here and UK link here.

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  • This is such a great episode covering Seven Ancestral Swap That Will Save You Money. We are assuming you are already well on the way to eating ancestral diet, so these are not swapping ancestral foods for conventional foods; these are swaps within the ancestral food paradigm that Alison and I have utilized to save money - within saving money. Everyone is tightening up their budgets right now and we are no exception to that. The conversation around fats, dairy products and drinks and so much more in this episode is so interesting; and the last, most complex swap is a very interesting one that has saved our family thousands of dollars, and it is well worth the time and effort it takes to investigate it.

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    Get our two podcast cookbooks:

    Meals at the Ancestral Hearth

    Spelt Sourdough Every Day

    Alison's course, Rye Sourdough Bread: Mastering The Basics is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Alison's Sowans oat fermentation course is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Get 10% off any course at The Fermentation School: click here and use code AKP at checkout.

    Get 10% off US/Canada Bokashi supplies: click here and use code AKP.

    Get 10% off UK Bokashi supplies.

    Visit our (non-Amazon!) bookshop for a vast selection of ancestral cookbooks: US link here and UK link here.

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    Our podcast is supported by Patrons in ancestral kitchens around the world!

    Come join our community! You can choose to simply sponsor the podcast, or select from a variety of levels with benefits including monthly live Zoom calls, a private podcast feed stuffed with bonus content from Alison and Andrea, and a Discord discussion group.

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  • Today we got to sit down again with Meredith Leigh, a butcher and author of The Ethical Meat Handbook, and ask her a lot of questions about Confit, Rilette and Terrines. Meredith has a course on these three items - including headcheese, by the way - a course which Alison and I both took, and made use of in our own kitchens, and we loved the tasty results so much we wanted to ask Meredith more and get her on the air so you could hear her talk about these incredible versatile and thrifty preparation and preservation methods of storing meat, fat and scraps that honestly would often otherwise end up in the trash. Gary and I learned to make our new favorite lunch meat spread by going through this process, and made what is now going to be a staple every time we process a pig - and we cannot wait to try these processes with ducks, sheep, beef, turkey and other animals we raise on the farm. I look forward to hearing about all the variety of spices and means you will use to make these delightful, ancestral dishes. Enjoy the episode, and - warning - you might get a little hungry.

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    For more tips, inspiration and recipes sign up for Alison's newsletter here!

    Get our two podcast cookbooks:

    Meals at the Ancestral Hearth

    Spelt Sourdough Every Day

    Alison's course, Rye Sourdough Bread: Mastering The Basics is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Alison's Sowans oat fermentation course is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Get 10% off any course at The Fermentation School: click here and use code AKP at checkout.

    Get 10% off US/Canada Bokashi supplies: click here and use code AKP.

    Get 10% off UK Bokashi supplies.

    Visit our (non-Amazon!) bookshop for a vast selection of ancestral cookbooks: US link here and UK link here.

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    Our podcast is supported by Patrons in ancestral kitchens around the world!

    Come join our community! You can choose to simply sponsor the podcast, or select from a variety of levels with benefits including monthly live Zoom calls, a private podcast feed stuffed with bonus content from Alison and Andrea, and a Discord discussion group.

  • There are so many supplements out there that, if we believe the advertising, we should be taking. It's confusing and even when we have the funds to dip our toes in, it's challenging to know where to start. Today's guest, Ben Greenfield, knows a lot about supplements and ancestral living in general. My family has been learning from his work for over a decade. We first heard about the light toxicity of modern devices and the benefits of cold exposure from him.

    In this episode Ben and I talk about so many things: light, dentistry, the importance of eating in a parasympathetic state, Ben's daily family routine and his philosophy on parenting and homeschooling, and then we dive into Ben's expertise on ancestral superfood supplements and cover two different ways of thinking about how to choose supplementation for yourself and your family. Ben really knows his stuff - this episode is absolutely chock full of information and insight.

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    For more tips, inspiration and recipes sign up for Alison's newsletter here!

    Get our two podcast cookbooks:

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    Spelt Sourdough Every Day

    Alison's course, Rye Sourdough Bread: Mastering The Basics is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Alison's Sowans oat fermentation course is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Get 10% off any course at The Fermentation School: click here and use code AKP at checkout.

    Get 10% off US/Canada Bokashi supplies: click here and use code AKP.

    Get 10% off UK Bokashi supplies.

    Visit our (non-Amazon!) bookshop for a vast selection of ancestral cookbooks: US link here and UK link here.

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    Our podcast is supported by Patrons in ancestral kitchens around the world!

    Come join our community! You can choose to simply sponsor the podcast, or select from a variety of levels with benefits including monthly live Zoom calls, a private podcast feed stuffed with bonus content from Alison and Andrea, and a Discord discussion group.

    To read more about becoming a patron and explore the...

  • The question we receive the most is how do you do it?

    How do you cook 3 meals a day, 365 days a year for your families?

    We thought it was about time we tackled this head on, and do it in a practical way. So in this episode you will hear two real-life examples of how we took one cooking session and let it guide the food we served and ate for a whole week.

    If you’ve ever thought or felt that you don’t have enough time. If you’ve ever wondered how we come up with the goods at every meal-time. If you’ve opened the fridge and felt that sinking feeling, what today, this episode will help!

    To get your copy of the printable PDF that accompanies this show and houses all the add-on recipes we talk about, visit https://patreon.com/ancestralkitchenpodcast and join at the companionship or above level.

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    For more tips, inspiration and recipes sign up for Alison's newsletter here!

    Get our two podcast cookbooks:

    Meals at the Ancestral Hearth

    Spelt Sourdough Every Day

    Alison's course, Rye Sourdough Bread: Mastering The Basics is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Alison's Sowans oat fermentation course is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Get 10% off any course at The Fermentation School: click here and use code AKP at checkout.

    Get 10% off US/Canada Bokashi supplies: click here and use code AKP.

    Get 10% off UK Bokashi supplies.

    Visit our (non-Amazon!) bookshop for a vast selection of ancestral cookbooks: US link here and UK link here.

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    Our podcast is supported by Patrons in ancestral kitchens around the world!

    Come join our community! You can choose to simply sponsor the podcast, or select from a variety of levels with benefits including monthly live Zoom calls, a private podcast feed stuffed with bonus content from Alison and Andrea, and a Discord discussion group.

  • What does "raw honey" really mean? How do you know if your honey is truly raw - is just the label enough? Are there different benefits to truly raw honey vs heated honey - even low heat temperature honey? And - how do you use truly raw honey? Does it ever go bad? How is it produced? Alison and I had so many questions all about honey and in this episode, Prenten, a beekeeper in Utah in the United States did an excellent job answering all of our questions - with some surprising answers.

    Join our Patreon to support the podcast and check out the 40-minute Aftershow where Prenten and I went even deeper down some of the rabbit holes connected to beekeeping and raw honey. It was a wonderful visit, Alison and I both learned so much and we are excited to share this episode with you.

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    For more tips, inspiration and recipes sign up for Alison's newsletter here!

    Get our two podcast cookbooks:

    Meals at the Ancestral Hearth

    Spelt Sourdough Every Day

    Alison's course, Rye Sourdough Bread: Mastering The Basics is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Alison's Sowans oat fermentation course is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Get 10% off any course at The Fermentation School: click here and use code AKP at checkout.

    Get 10% off US/Canada Bokashi supplies: click here and use code AKP.

    Get 10% off UK Bokashi supplies.

    Visit our (non-Amazon!) bookshop for a vast selection of ancestral cookbooks: US link here and UK link here.

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    Our podcast is supported by Patrons in ancestral kitchens around the world!

    Come join our community! You can choose to simply sponsor the podcast, or select from a variety of levels with benefits including monthly live Zoom calls, a private podcast feed stuffed with bonus content from Alison and Andrea, and a Discord discussion group.

    To read more about becoming a patron and explore the various levels, click here!

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  • Every month, we record not only the episodes you listen to here on Ancestral Kitchen but also a special show for supporters of the podcast - that is, our patrons.

    The episode you’re about to hear is one of these patron-exclusive shows from earlier in the year. In it you’ll get a taste of the sort of things we cover - we regularly talk about what’s happening in our own lives, often sharing things we wouldn’t in the main episodes and we also, as you will hear, answer really juicy questions from our patrons.

    If you’d like to continue to listen to these episodes plus get access to a back-catalogue of nearly 40 more, along with so many more interesting and supportive goodies, check out our patreon community at https://patreon.com/ancestralkitchenpodcast

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    For more tips, inspiration and recipes sign up for Alison's newsletter here!

    Get our two podcast cookbooks:

    Meals at the Ancestral Hearth

    Spelt Sourdough Every Day

    Alison's course, Rye Sourdough Bread: Mastering The Basics is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Alison's Sowans oat fermentation course is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Get 10% off any course at The Fermentation School: click here and use code AKP at checkout.

    Get 10% off US/Canada Bokashi supplies: click here and use code AKP.

    Get 10% off UK Bokashi supplies.

    Visit our (non-Amazon!) bookshop for a vast selection of ancestral cookbooks: US link here and UK link here.

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    Our podcast is supported by Patrons in ancestral kitchens around the world!

    Come join our community! You can choose to simply sponsor the podcast, or select from a variety of levels with benefits including monthly live Zoom calls, a private podcast feed stuffed with bonus content from Alison and Andrea, and a Discord discussion group.

    To read more about becoming a patron and explore the various levels, click here!

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  • Many of the questions Alison and I receive on a constant basis relate to topics that we covered in early foundational episodes of the podcast, so we decided to bring a few of those archive episodes to the front and highlight them for new listeners to enjoy. This episode is one of our very earliest - it's only our fourth episode on the podcast; and we were covering five of the most expensive foods to buy that are ironically some of the cheapest foods you can make.

    In this episode, we cover bone broth; sourdough bread; kombucha and water kefir; kefir and yoghurt; and sauerkraut. We compare the price of purchasing high quality versions of these foods compared to making them at home, and some of our resources for each of them. This is an excellent episode with a lot of really good show notes, so be sure to check the show notes for all of our many, many, many resources on all of these topics!

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    For more tips, inspiration and recipes sign up for Alison's newsletter here!

    Get our two podcast cookbooks:

    Meals at the Ancestral Hearth

    Spelt Sourdough Every Day

    Alison's course, Rye Sourdough Bread: Mastering The Basics is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Alison's Sowans oat fermentation course is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Get 10% off any course at The Fermentation School: click here and use code AKP at checkout.

    Get 10% off US/Canada Bokashi supplies: click here and use code AKP.

    Get 10% off UK Bokashi supplies.

    Visit our (non-Amazon!) bookshop for a vast selection of ancestral cookbooks: US link here and UK link here.

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    Our podcast is supported by Patrons in ancestral kitchens around the world!

    Come join our community! You can choose to simply sponsor the podcast, or select from a variety of levels with benefits including monthly live Zoom calls, a private podcast feed stuffed with bonus content from Alison and Andrea, and a Discord discussion group.

    To read more about becoming a patron and explore the various levels, click here!

  • Megan is a podcast listener, turned podcast patron, turned podcast admin! She is now working for the Ancestral Kitchen Podcast and it has been so wonderful having her helping Alison and I out. This is a very special episode that we recorded just for patrons of the podcast, and it went up on a private podcast feed where we have over 80+ episodes that are just special bonuses for patrons of the podcast who are helping support it and keep us on the air. Megan and her partner are garlic and lamb farmers; and we asked the patrons of the podcast for all their questions about garlic, and then Megan answered every single one. Everything ranging from varieties and planting methods, harvesting and storing, different uses for garlic as well as ways of cooking with garlic - all the way up to medicinal benefits and even talking about Megan's garlic festival! This is such a fun episode and I think you will enjoy getting to hear this intimate conversation from the private patron feed as a special summer bonus!

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    One Earth Health make the grass-fed organ supplements we use and trust. Get 15% off your first order here and 5% off all subsequent orders here.

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    For more tips, inspiration and recipes sign up for Alison's newsletter here!

    Get our two podcast cookbooks:

    Meals at the Ancestral Hearth

    Spelt Sourdough Every Day

    Alison's course, Rye Sourdough Bread: Mastering The Basics is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Alison's Sowans oat fermentation course is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Get 10% off any course at The Fermentation School: click here and use code AKP at checkout.

    Get 10% off US/Canada Bokashi supplies: click here and use code AKP.

    Get 10% off UK Bokashi supplies.

    Visit our (non-Amazon!) bookshop for a vast selection of ancestral cookbooks: US link here and UK link here.

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    Our podcast is supported by Patrons in ancestral kitchens around the world!

    Come join our community! You can choose to simply sponsor the podcast, or select from a variety of levels with benefits including monthly live Zoom calls, a private podcast feed stuffed with bonus content from Alison and Andrea, and a Discord discussion group.

  • So many of us come to ancestral foods because of our own or our family’s health. We’ve tried what the mainstream medical model has to offer and we’re done with it. We want to look for and work with alternatives.

    And that journey can be a lonely and fraught one. The world doesn’t provide much support for taking this road less travelled and yet, when doing hard things and making tough decisions we sooo need support.

    That’s why we wanted to bring this episode, taking your health in your own hands, to the podcast. To offer perspective, support and encouragement to you, wherever you are on your health journey.

    In it, Alison talks with her husband Rob. Between them they’ve had 40 years attempting to manage their health outside the mainstream.

    They cover what taking your health in your own hands means and why you’d want to do it. They share some examples of where they’ve done this in our their lives including fertility, digestion, sleep and eyesight. They share what you need to be aware of along the way, what helps, how food plays into the journey, how to know when to call in help, the resources they’ve used and what this attitude to life and health has given them.

    They also, in a special aftershow for patrons of the podcast, cover applying this philosophy to children, sharing some of the healing journey they've been through with their son. To access the aftershow, you can join our patreon community at the companionship level or above, there are details below.

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    One Earth Health make the grass-fed organ supplements we use and trust. Get 15% off your first order here and 5% off all subsequent orders here.

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    For more tips, inspiration and recipes sign up for Alison's newsletter here!

    Get our two podcast cookbooks:

    Meals at the Ancestral Hearth

    Spelt Sourdough Every Day

    Alison's course, Rye Sourdough Bread: Mastering The Basics is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Alison's Sowans oat fermentation course is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Get 10% off any course at The Fermentation School: click here and use code AKP at checkout.

    Get 10% off US/Canada Bokashi supplies: click here and use code AKP.

    Get 10% off UK Bokashi supplies.

    Visit our (non-Amazon!) bookshop for a vast selection of ancestral cookbooks: US link here and UK link here.

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  • In this podcast we celebrate and share ancestral food…the things that our great grandmothers, and their great grandmothers used to do. The wisdom we can gather listening to and reading the stories of their work has the power to change our modern day food world.

    In this episode Andrea and I will put out a call for you to send us your own ancestral stories and we’ll also celebrate people who have collected and treasured this knowledge by sharing four beautiful, evocative pieces of food wisdom hand-picked by some of our favourite authors. Be prepared to be amazed, enlightened, inspired and enthused, as we are, to go out and do all you can to rebuild our individual food stories using the wisdom of our ancestors as the guiding star.

    Send us your ancestral stories via this page

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    One Earth Health make the grass-fed organ supplements we use and trust. Get 15% off your first order here and 5% off all subsequent orders here.

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    For more tips, inspiration and recipes sign up for Alison's newsletter here!

    Get our two podcast cookbooks:

    Meals at the Ancestral Hearth

    Spelt Sourdough Every Day

    Alison's course, Rye Sourdough Bread: Mastering The Basics is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Alison's Sowans oat fermentation course is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Get 10% off any course at The Fermentation School: click here and use code AKP at checkout.

    Get 10% off US/Canada Bokashi supplies: click here and use code AKP.

    Get 10% off UK Bokashi supplies.

    Visit our (non-Amazon!) bookshop for a vast selection of ancestral cookbooks: US link here and UK link here.

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    Our podcast is supported by Patrons in ancestral kitchens around the world!

    Come join our community! You can choose to simply sponsor the podcast, or select from a variety of levels with benefits including monthly live Zoom calls, a private podcast feed stuffed with bonus content from Alison and Andrea, and a Discord discussion group.

    To read more about becoming a patron and explore the...

  • What about cooking and eating ancestrally when you're in times of turmoil, or busy chaotic times - like having a new baby, or when people are sick, or when you're moving across countries!

    In this episode Alison and I are going to talk about all of these things because we are going through all of them. We will share some of our strategies and plans for using up food stores before a move, or preparing food in advance when there's a baby coming, and how we're going to keep our systems running despite all of the disruptions going on in normal life.

    Thank you to those of you who sent in the questions that inspired this episode - it's a really good one, and I think you will find it very useful.

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    One Earth Health make the grass-fed organ supplements we use and trust. Get 15% off your first order here and 5% off all subsequent orders here.

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    For more tips, inspiration and recipes sign up for Alison's newsletter here!

    Get our two podcast cookbooks:

    Meals at the Ancestral Hearth

    Spelt Sourdough Every Day

    Alison's course, Rye Sourdough Bread: Mastering The Basics is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Alison's Sowans oat fermentation course is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Get 10% off any course at The Fermentation School: click here and use code AKP at checkout.

    Get 10% off US/Canada Bokashi supplies: click here and use code AKP.

    Get 10% off UK Bokashi supplies.

    Visit our (non-Amazon!) bookshop for a vast selection of ancestral cookbooks: US link here and UK link here.

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    Our podcast is supported by Patrons in ancestral kitchens around the world!

    Come join our community! You can choose to simply sponsor the podcast, or select from a variety of levels with benefits including monthly live Zoom calls, a private podcast feed stuffed with bonus content from Alison and Andrea, and a Discord discussion group.

    To read more about becoming a patron and explore the various levels, click here!

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  • Welcome to June! It's a wild month for both Alison and Andrea - Andrea is having a baby, and Alison is moving back from Italy to the UK! To celebrate all the big changes and upheaval in our lives we wanted to have something special for all our listeners.

    We are offering a 16% discount - that is the maximum Patreon would allow us to give - on our annual Patreon supporter memberships. Sign up to be part of the community for a year - you'll make one payment and get all of the benefits for 12 months.

    This sale runs only for June and all of June. It's a crazy month so we wanted to have a crazy sale! You can read all of the details and sign up by going to patreon.com/ancestralkitchenpodcast

  • Liver: do you love it or hate it?

    Which ever side of the fence you're on, we're betting you know that liver is a true superfood; one of the most nutrient dense foods we can include in our diet.

    But for many it's also a 'problem' food – we know because both of us regularly get questions on including liver in an ancestral diet.

    This episode is for liver lovers and liver haters! We talk about why liver is so important, how often to eat liver, where to start with sourcing, preparing and cooking liver, what types of liver we eat and how we eat it, how to eat liver without realising you're eating liver, how to get children to eat liver, what to do if you just can't eat liver and we share our favourite and our patrons favourite liver recipes.

    We just couldn't stop talking about liver and if you're our patron of the podcast, you will find an after show in your private feed where we share even more about liver including eating it raw.

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  • Rebecca is a good friend and a good influence. She is the creator behind A Humble Place, with a website and an Instagram both by that name, where I first found her when I was looking for Charlotte Mason art studies, and I got many of her beautiful sets. In this episode, though, she is teaching me about her meal planning strategies. I am now using her method and it is revolutionizing everything that I am doing. I am so grateful to Rebecca for joining me today to discuss this because I am not by nature a meal planner. With a very busy summer coming up, I need to have some good frameworks in place to rely on for meal planning, having others being able to participate in the food preparation, being able to know what is coming down the pipeline; and it was really interesting to me how her meal planning works with an ancestral and seasonal food lifestyle, which is the way she and her family eat. So many meal planning ideas and options out there assume you're going to be going to the grocery store every couple of days and buying lots of convenience or unseasonal foods, which just doesn't suit the way a lot of us are eating. Thank you Rebecca for opening up a whole new world to me! I am so excited to share this episode with you today; enjoy!

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    Get 10% off any course at The Fermentation School: click here and use code AKP at checkout.

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  • I know milling my own flour is better and I want to do it, but where do I start?

    Home milling can be such a joy and we’re here in this episode to guide you through all the hows.

    We’ll talk the multiple benefits of milling at home and fill any gaps in knowledge you might have. We’ll explain how you can grind a grain, what mills are available for your kitchen and the benefits of each one, then I’ll share how I mill at home, the organisation around it and what I make. And stay till the end as we’ll also squeeze in a chat about how home-milled flour is different to shop bought and how you can best work with this amazing food stuff in your own kitchen.

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    Get 10% off any course at The Fermentation School: click here and use code AKP at checkout.

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  • Do you cook with millet? I do and I love this ancient grain for the fact that it is super sustainable, very economical and, being gluten and lectin free, really easy to digest.

    In this episode we dive in to the ancestral grain millet. We will talk about what it is, why you'd want to include it in your diet, how to cook it and I then I will go on to share in detail my seven favourite ways to use millet - we regularly consume millet all of these ways in our home.

    By the end of this episode you will be armed with everything you need to know to start cooking, eating and loving this wonderful grain in your own kitchen.

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    Get 10% off UK Bokashi supplies.

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  • Feeding babies and children a nutrient-dense ancestral diet is something that many moms have questions about. Whether the questions are "how do I start my child off on the right foot" or "I have older kids and we are just coming to this ancestral diet now - help, how do I transition them to this good food!" - these are things that we think about. Here to help us today is Christine Muldoon, from The Modern Ancestral Mamas Podcast. Christine and her co-host Corey were on our podcast a long time ago, episode # 27, and Christine is back to give us more of her great wisdom for feeding children.

    Topics today range from breastfeeding and the WAPF formula, to connection at the table and during mealtime; when do you start bringing children to the table and why that timing is so important; to picky eating and family food values and so much more. This is a wonderful conversation, Alison and I both enjoyed visiting with Christine so much. Patrons, be sure to hit your private podcast feed for a short aftershow with Christine where we hit her with one more question!

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    Alison's Sowans oat fermentation course is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Get 10% off any course at The Fermentation School: click here and use code AKP at checkout.

    Get 10% off US/Canada Bokashi supplies: click here and use code AKP.

    Get 10% off UK Bokashi supplies.

    Visit our (non-Amazon!) bookshop for a vast selection of ancestral cookbooks: US link here and UK link here.

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  • We get a lot of questions about butchering chickens over here on the podcast, and those questions range from “I have a backyard flock and I would like to be able to cull a few hens and some roosters every year,” all the way up to, “We are planning to raise enough meat birds for ourselves and our neighbors and we need to know what tools we need to get started on that.” In this episode, I am going to do my best to get you comfortable with the idea of butchering a few hens on your kitchen counter, and reassure you that you have every tool you need, and it really is a simple and straightforward process - but there is a learning curve, and it is worth learning.

    This is an ancestral skill that used to be fairly familiar to many people; if you have read many older books you know they are always butchering this, that, or the other chicken and it doesn’t even barely make a comment in the book because it is such a simple and familiar process to people in the days of old. We will cover the tools you need for both a simple few birds a year, all the way up to the larger batches that involve more equipment; we will talk about involving your kids in the process, and we will talk about the clean-up and packaging process at the end as well.

    I hope you find this episode to be very useful and interesting, and please be aware that we are going to talk about all the blood and guts in this episode and it is appropriate for all ages, but please be aware before you jump in.

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    Spelt Sourdough Every Day

    Alison's course, Rye Sourdough Bread: Mastering The Basics is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Alison's Sowans oat fermentation course is here, with a 10% discount applied!

    Get 10% off any course at The Fermentation School: click here and use code AKP at checkout.

    Get 10% off US/Canada Bokashi supplies: click here and use code AKP.

    Get 10% off UK Bokashi supplies.

    Visit our (non-Amazon!) bookshop for a vast selection of ancestral cookbooks: US link here and UK link here.

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