🎧 An Ancient Guide to Healthy Living
🎧 The Ancients • 34m
Poetry, parables, and produce - how did someone live a healthy life in the ancient Greco-Roman world? Tristan is joined by author Mark Usher to talk about what we can learn from our ancient ancestors. Discussing the impact farming has on both physical and mental well-being, the role it played in music and song, and philosophical musings about the land - Tristan and Mark discuss how can we live a sustainable, and ancient inspired, way of life?
Copies of Mark's book How To Be A Farmer: An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land can be found here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691211749/how-to-be-a-farmer.
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