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Silver Will Remind Us: We Are Deeply Dependent on the Earth

Silver Will Remind Us: We Are Deeply Dependent on the Earth
Silver bars are stacked in the safe deposit boxes room of the Pro Aurum gold house in Munich, Germany, on Jan. 10, 2025. Angelika Warmuth/Reuters
Mollie Engelhart
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We live in a world that has engineered distance between us and the physical limits our ancestors once lived inside of. The constraints that shaped generations before us—weather, harvest, transport, salt, fuel, season, strength, distance, labor, time—have been replaced by one dominant modern restraint: money.

Mollie Engelhart
Mollie Engelhart
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Mollie Engelhart, regenerative farmer and rancher at Sovereignty Ranch, is committed to food sovereignty, soil regeneration, and educating on homesteading and self-sufficiency. She is the author of “Debunked by Nature”: Debunk Everything You Thought You Knew About Food, Farming, and Freedom—a raw, riveting account of her journey from vegan chef and LA restaurateur to hands-in-the-dirt farmer, and how nature shattered her cultural programming.