The episode opens with a brief clip from the Grass Grace podcast in which a speaker reflects on a college‑taught concept that parents are our "skin gods," describing how his upbringing modeled a lived Christian faith beyond Sunday services. The hosts then segue into farm life, sharing personal anecdotes: one recounts his first paid job washing cars in ninth grade, another talks about dealing with invasive yellow dock and commissioning flower planting on the property. The core of the segment follows a routine farm operation—selling piglets, preparing for a veterinary visit, and obtaining health certificates and disease tests. The team attempts to capture a pig named Autumn, describing the logistical plan (herding sheep and cattle, using alfalfa as a lure, setting up lanes and nets) and the chaotic, humorous mishaps that ensue, including misdirected animals, a stepped‑on toe, and a near‑miss with a swollen animal. Throughout, the dialogue is informal, peppered with laughter and self‑deprecating commentary, illustrating the blend of practical farm work, personal history, and light‑hearted storytelling that characterises the show.
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Okay, wake up, man. You tired?
There's this term that a college professor taught me called your parents are your skin gods. So, and by that, it's like when you are growing up and you're kind of trying to figure out the world and seeing what things look like, the first place that you see that emulated is through your parents. And so that kind of become, you, you, you come to this point of like tension when you grow up and when you mature and it's like, well, Do I want to continue to follow the same, like, you know, track that my parents did or, you know, or not? And so I'm just really grateful. And I mean, I count that as— I mean, I just have so much gratitude in the fact that I saw what it looked like to model the Christian faith and not just, you know, church on Sundays, church on Easter. It was like, oh, we can't go to church because there's a storm. We're going to have a family devotional. Oh, like, you know, it was, it was a part of my everything. Like, yeah, everything.
That was a snippet of the Grass Grace podcast. New podcast up on Abundance Plus. Let's, let's listen to a bit of that throughout the day. Best part of their week right here. Hang tight, we're gonna get them over and I'm gonna show you the before and after. Before, after. But my goodness, they must be getting 10, 20% of their food off this land. What you doing back?
Trying to get this yellow dock plant out in the grass that was right here.
Looks like you got a couple new best friends over there.
But these are the people that I commissioned to start me some flowers and plants and stuff. So they brought them, they're all over there, and they offered to help. So I was like, okay.
Around 9th grade, my family had a few small businesses and, and I started getting involved and they're like, hey, what do you want to do? I was like, hey, I want to wash cars. And it was the first time I ever earned money. It was like a Saturday and Saturday, my mom was like, well, you can go and do this. You go get all your supplies and you're good at washing cars. You like cleaning things. You're good at that. You know, put up a sign. And we were busy all day long. And I was like, I don't want to go to school next week. I want to do this. Oh, like, this is what I want to do.
Isn't that perfect?
We've sold these piglets, and we've sold Autumn this afternoon. The vet is coming. We gotta get the health certificates and disease tests. Autumn, I'll be shocked if anything's wrong with you, honey. You're looking good. Okay, how are we going to catch her though? We'd probably need to get her down to the stall. Do you think she'll come eat off Alpha?
Probably.
Or catch her? I hope she does. Well, that was a bad idea. Stepped on my toe. As if my feet aren't bad enough. I think we need to herd her down, put up lanes, herd her down. They don't want to do that because it's, it's work. Plan is herd the sheep, herd the cows, lead them with alfalfa into the trailer. We need Polly and Spryce down here too. You think you can hurt them? Is she a tame one or not? No, she's unhandled. Well, she's had some handling. That was embarrassing and a shame. The vet had to leave. She is going to come back though. It's going to be late. We said, all right, plan B or whatever we're on. We just put up a net all the way, all the way up to her. This is pretty much a fail-proof except for maybe these two strands across the road. Polly will obey them. I don't think that calf will obey them, but maybe we can hurry them across. I don't need Joey, I don't need the sheep, I just need these two. Drama-free from here on unless they go into the woods. Come on, come on. Don't go in the woods. Oh wow, she went right back in. I thought we were drama-free. Why is she being so difficult? I thought she was going to be easier than Autumn. Come on, let's do them fast. Keep them fast. It's what I wanted, keep them fast. Oh, oh, oh, oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! Oh, there they went, both of them, wrong direction. What in the Here we go, here we go. Good, good. Boy, that could have been bad. That could have been bad. You bring up the back side. I got the side. You got this. Hey, okay. All right, we can kind of rest easy now. Holly, you're throwing us all the curveballs. We're almost there. Oh my goodness. Woo! Yep, we got her in the stanchion. I hope it's not swollen too bad. That's gonna leave a mark.
Oh, that looks rough.
I think everybody would rather end this show with you. They think they'd rather end this show with you. You're much cuter. I'm a little carnivore. I'm eating the meat and cheese. That's what I like. So that's one of my favorites.
