414-Living Off the Land and Interdependently, with Robin Greenfield
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🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Could you imagine yourself living off the land for a whole year, only eating food that you have grown or foraged for yourself? My guest this week, Robin Greenfield, did just that, and it’s just one of the extreme challenges that he has undertaken in recent years to demonstrate that there are alternative ways of life that are kinder to the environment and fellow humans.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everybody. This is Joe Lampel, the Joe behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner Show. |
| 0:06.0 | Today on the podcast, I'm joined by returning guest Robin Greenfield, activist, adventurer, and author of the new book, Food Freedom, a year of growing and foraging 100% of my food. |
| 0:19.4 | You heard that right. In this bold and inspiring book, Robin documents his |
| 0:23.8 | journey of living entirely off the land for a full year, no grocery stores, no restaurants, |
| 0:29.5 | not even a cup of coffee from a friend. Every single calorie came from what he grew or forged |
| 0:34.8 | himself. But this project is just one chapter in a life lived with radical intention. |
| 0:40.5 | In our previous episode, we caught up with Robin as he was just wrapping up his year of forging |
| 0:45.4 | his own food and talked a bit about what he's often known for. |
| 0:49.6 | His immersive, often headline-grabbing adventures that challenge modern consumerism and spotlight |
| 0:55.2 | environmental justice. He's biked across the U.S. living on $1.50 a day, lived with zero |
| 1:01.5 | waste, and even wore every piece of trash he created for a month to show the weight of our daily |
| 1:06.7 | consumption. But a few years have passed since we last met here, and Robin's work continues to invite |
| 1:12.6 | us to rethink what it means to live well and to live lightly, rooted in community, connected |
| 1:18.0 | to the earth, and driven by purpose. Whether he's growing his own food or building tiny off-grid |
| 1:23.5 | homes, he's constantly asking, what would life look like if we truly lived our values? |
| 1:29.3 | And as you will hear, Robin is truly a unique person. |
| 1:33.4 | And what we may consider as many personal sacrifices as he lives his life and shares the story, |
| 1:39.6 | you can't deny the joy you will hear in his voice and the passion he has for this earth and his |
| 1:45.3 | chosen path on it. So let's settle into this episode today as we revisit a bit of the past |
| 1:51.1 | and catch up with what's happening since and the biggest challenge of his life he's chosen to |
| 1:55.9 | take on starting later this year. And as we do, thanks to our sponsors for today's episode, |
| 2:01.8 | Soil Cubed and Malorganite. Having access to good quality compost is my not-so-secret |
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