Join me as I chat with Sophia Eng, a first-generation Vietnamese American, sought-after speaker, podcast host, and author of the brand new, beautiful cookbook, The Nourishing Asian Kitchen. She’s also one of my fellow Tennessee farmers! Sophia recently left a successful Silicon Valley career to start a 5-acre permaculture mini farm with her family in east Tennessee in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. 🌄

As a busy, full-time working mom and homesteader, Sophia Eng is making nourishing, simple Asian recipes doable for anyone. 🍜 As Sophia says, “If I can do it, you can do it. It starts with one recipe at a time.”

In this episode, you’ll go on a journey with Sophia from urban California to a homestead in East Tennessee and hear how her Vietnamese heritage guided her along the way as she wrote her cookbook and started a farm. As she shares the powerful steps she took to turn her family towards land stewardship, nourishment, and community, you’ll be empowered to implement some of these practices in your own life and home.

Some of the topics we talk about:

• Taking risks & living boldly

• Multi-generational living & preserving family heritage

• How to prepare for the future through healthy food & lifestyle choices

• Why bartering and trading are practices we need to keep alive

• “The beautiful web of being in community” and why it’s important

LISTEN IN, and let Sophia inspire you to nourish yourself and your family well, starting today! 💚

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SHOW NOTES:

• The Nourishing Asian Kitchen by Sophia Eng

• Sophia Eng on Instagram: @sprinklewithsoil

• Sophia Eng’s Website: sprinklewithsoil.com

• Call To Farms Podcast with Tim & Sophia Eng

• Sophia’s Chicken Pho Masterclass

• Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon

• Weston A. Price Foundation

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