More than 50% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy. Now all of our food comes from these industrial systems that's been sterilized and you're not replenishing our microbiology when we're eating the food of these current systems.

This is not a future crisis that we need to talk about could happen if I don't drive a hybrid.

This is happening right now.

Molly Engelhart is a regenerative farmer and entrepreneur.

Due to heavy regulations in California and followed from COVID restrictions,

she made the difficult decision to uproot her life and

restart from scratch in Texas. In this episode, we get an in-depth tour of

the sovereignty ranch and find out why she believes regenerative agriculture is the best way forward for humans, animals, and the planet.

We can't just depend on rice from China and wheat from Ukraine and lentils from Africa having these hubs of farmers that are growing

food for the community that is real resilience and that is real security and that is what I want to bring back.

This is American Thought Leaders and I'm Yanya Kelleck.

Molly Engelhardt, such a pleasure to have you back on American thought leaders.

Thank you so much for having me.

Well, just about a year ago today,

we were actually sitting down at a different farm,

your farm in California, and you were about to leave,

to come here to create a new life.

So tell me about what you've built here since.

I mean, you're someone who kind of goes 150% on whatever you're doing.

So, you know, just looking around here,

it seems like a lot has happened since you arrived.

So I moved to Texas to 250 acres and we built a restaurant in the

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