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The Lost Art of Medicine

Healing, like growing food, was never meant to be outsourced. It was meant to be lived, practiced, remembered, and passed down.
The Lost Art of Medicine
At one time, it was normal for every household to have some working knowledge of herbal medicine. Shutterstock
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We often talk about the lost arts of cooking and growing food. We lament the fact that modern people don’t know how to bake bread from scratch or coax tomatoes from a small patch of soil. But there is another kind of loss happening quietly, almost invisibly, and it may be even more consequential for our future.

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.