Hello, and welcome to the Borealis experience. I'm

your host Aurora. And I'm very happy to be spending some time

with you today. It is beginning of October No, I'm lying. It is

beginning of November, sitting on my couch right now recreating

this episode for you. I just washed my hair and it is so warm

outside, that I can dry my hair in the sun, and it just feels

like a blessing. appreciating the small things in life.

Without sun,

we wouldn't be here. And to feel the heat on my bag

is so soothing. So whenever you have time, whenever the sun

comes back, or is there where you are at, enjoy the warmth of

the sun without getting a sunburn. Today, I want to talk

about food. I want to talk food porn with you. You are

what you eat,

my dear friend, my dear listener, whatever you put into

your body becomes your body. Right your body breaks down the

food and then it nourishes your blood, your bones, your skin,

your muscles, your nerves, your brain, everything is being

nourished by the food that you eat. And how do you make food

choices? I used to be very ignorant. I used to go for the

most colorful food and cheapest food. And yeah, I know that I

need to eat my apple and my lettuce. But yeah, I didn't

really care where the food was coming from and how many

kilometers the food had on its back already. Once I had it on

my plate. And now that I live in Canada, and that I'm a small

scale farmer myself, I'm very much aware of food quality.

Again, it's incredible. And it's not to tap my shoulder and

applaud for myself. But you can really taste a difference when

you grow your own food compared to the food that you get at the

grocery store. And it is not that I want to make you feel

bad. No, because maybe you don't have a backyard, maybe you can

you know you don't have a garden where you can just grow your

food or don't have the space in your apartment. But what I want

to encourage you to do today is to realize where does your food

come from? And can you do a little bit of research and find

out where the closest farm is to you and where people might put

so much love and work and sweat into their little farm and they

would greatly appreciate a hand from a city person. Or if you

live on the countryside. Be aware of where you source your

food from a lot of small scale farmers take really Yeah, much

love and time to attend to their animals and give them the best

food and treatments that they deserve and need. And in turn,

the food that is being sourced from these animals is very rich

in vitamins and minerals and whatnot, everything that we need

to be healthy, right if you keep going for the cheapest product

for me that comes from industrialized farms. You

accumulate the pesticides and the herbicides that the animals

ate before you are eating them, because it stores in our body.

And as we turn 7080 Sometimes even 90 years old, whatever we

have consumed over a lifetime is being accumulated in our body

and now Aren't all the food like the carbohydrates and the fats

that's being metabolized, and sometimes, yes, stored in your

tissues. But what I'm talking about is about the residues, you

know, from from industrialized farming. And some people even go

so far that if the animals have been held in a very stressful

environment and environment that is not meant to be for animals,

we ingest these stress hormones, and they as well accumulate in

our body. And then we struggle with mental health, health and

anxiety and depression. And it is really beautiful to see how

many people put the work into it now to publish statistics and

scientific reports on how your food that you ingest is directly

affecting not only your body, but also your mind. And in doing

so, your mental health. There's people out there with food

allergies, and whenever they engage into the foods. or

however you say that in English, whenever they have a cheat day,

they have the symptoms again, you know, bloating, sore stomach

headaches, excessive weight gain, but also their mind is

foggy, and they feel depressed and anxious. And more and more

people come out and talk about it now. And it's it's really

beautiful, I find we live in a in an extraordinary time where

more and more people speak up and express themselves and share

their experiences. And we can all learn from that. Plus, if

you decide to do a little bit of research and find out who is

farming in your community, you can also connect to that farmer

and we can slowly but surely, build more resilient

communities. Again, we're meant to be interacting with each

other. And, look, the farmer might be charging a little bit

more for his organic eggs or meat. But maybe you can give him

a hand and then he can give you a deal. Maybe you can help him

with tending to the animals or asking, asking what he needs.

And I'm sure that if that farmer is smart enough, he would start

a collaboration with you. It is really extremely important that

we know that our mental health is also built on connections

that we entertain on a maybe daily basis, but certainly

weekly and monthly basis. If we are too disconnected from

society and too lonely, then we suffer. And if we are connected

to people, but they are not in alignment with our values, they

just have Yeah, no healthy lifestyle and no sense of good

living, then it influences us in a negative way. So if we can

find people that you know where it's a give and take, then

that's a beautiful thing. And that's how it's you it used to

be and how it can become Megan COVID is one excuse and social

media another you know, we feel we stay connected, but we are

not really. And even though with COVID, we could still say hi on

a distance. So we could still make a phone call or a zoom call

and connect to people that we maybe didn't really think of

were in our lives or important to be analyzed a couple months

back. So reach out to your local farmer and ask him if he needs a

hand and ask questions how Yeah, they treat their animals.

Animals deserve the best treatment ever, especially the

ones that we eat. Because like I said earlier, the quality of

their life is going to impact the quality of our life and and

the way we can live healthy a physical healthy life and a

mentally healthy life. There's also this wonderful book out

there it's called Food fix. I'm not getting any money for

advertisement here. But I am so blown away by the spoken it's,

it's really incredible how it gives you a step by step guide

on how you can be a more responsible, sustainable human

being and taking good care of your body and your community.

And he even goes so far Dr. Mark Heyman Hyman is his name, to say

that we can have a huge impact on global warming, or whatever

we believe in is happening with the earth right now. Because of

food wastage and where we source our foods from so it's a very

interesting book, I'm going to put the link and his name into

the show notes. And yeah, this episode is to draw the attention

to small farming, to make you aware that it is people who

deeply care about their animals who deeply care about the Earth,

and they produce the most nourishing, delicious food that

there is out there at the moment. And maybe you want to

give it a try and start supporting them or maybe, maybe

even start being involved in farming and growing food.

It is deeply healing and nourishing for the soul to be

outdoors and to get your fingers dirty in the soil. It grounds

you and it makes you feel so connected to not only Mother

Earth, but the people that are around you and the animals.

Thank you so much for listening to my little episode here. take

really good care of yourself. Watch the food that you're

eating and know that it is deeply affecting your health,

your immune system, your mental health. All right. I will be out

there very soon again.

Until then,