lystn

I have lots of guests that have been booking and lots of great interviews coming up! A Montana rockstar running the food truck here in Montana!  Tell us a little about yourself. I did grow up on a farm and a ranch A little bit about my past I was raised in a world of agriculture I grew up on a farm and ar ranch that was not always organic, my dad converted to organic in 2007 I was 10 years old it was interesting as a young child to see that process of old ways and shifting to new ways of organic and how much better everything becomes with that process with that conversion we moved to a lot of diversified crops Before we had converted to organic we were just doing the same old thing everyone else does. Switched to doing a lot of wheat and same clover alfalfa growing ancient grains kamut farro lentils chickpeas while we were learning and growing all those I was also at a pretty young age learning to bake native to Montana at that time I think that was where I got a pretty strong base with working with local and available at any given time. That’s the farming side of it. We raised cattle as well. So that was really interesting for me to grow up working the trails and the to grow up working cows trail them calving season everything you go through on the organic side everything 100% organic grass fed everything takes longer I remember watching food inc when it came out I remember seeing the vast difference competed to the feed lots they have pictured! Everything how everything is so crammed compared to our open pasture administering antibiotics and growth hormone we were just allowing our cattle to grow naturally it takes longer but I believe it does allow for a healthful product and a product that tastes better Through all that processI think I gained a really good appreciating for the organic food system extra time and thought that goes into it That’s the same for a lot of people who are gardening I love to have conversations that they are trying some are working and some aren’t learning what grows well here and what doesn’t how to utilize in cooking. Did you have a lot of brothers and sisters? You seem like you had a very mature upbringing. Mike and I were talking about chores the other day. similar upgrading yeah I have 3 brothers and 2 sisters I’m the 2nd oldest so I just have one older brother. We’re ranging in ages in 23 down to 7. I think growing up especially with so many younger siblings inputs a little bit of extra responsibility automatically to a person. I think that was some part of it cooking was something because I did like to do it, but I didn’t always cook because I wanted to had to do but it was something we had a lot of people to feed working on the ranch not always great help had a lot of kids We were out there whenever we needed to be.That built a really good work ethic I appreciate all of those opportunities Tell me about your first gardening experience? Yeah! You could say, we did have a pretty good garden for the majority of my childhood wouldn’t classify myself as a green thumb I am better at cooking then gardening. I enjoy the process. I had my little herb garden on the back porch in college. tons of root vegetables melons corn one year strawberries rhubarb Pretty standard things you could say definitely lots of salad greens and tomatoes. Now you’re up in the northern part of Montana, close to the border of Canada. Very cold right. Not easy to grow food. It’s not, unless you have a greenhouse even still there’s challenges. I’m about as close to Canada as you can get. It takes about 40 minutes to drive to the border. from where I live It definitely does present some challenges climate but there’s ways to work around it. I think that’s where experimenting with what really grows well in Montana. There have been a lot of farmers...