The Sovereign Kitchen Society is a weekly gathering place for people who feel the pull toward a life rooted in real food, personal sovereignty, family economy, and the old-world skills our grandparents treated as ordinary.
This podcast sits at the intersection of food and freedom. Each episode is a conversation with chefs, farmers and entrepreneurs who chose to step outside the modern maze and build a life that actually feeds them. We talk about the turning points—the moments when someone realized the system wasn’t going to save them, so they learned to save themselves. We talk about canning and cattle and kitchen-table businesses. But beneath it all, we’re talking about sovereignty: how you reclaim your time, your health, your income, and the way you feed your family.
You’ll hear how people turned old-world skills into income streams, rebuilt their nervous systems in their kitchens, raised children on broth instead of boxed snacks, and created home economies strong enough to withstand the noise of the outside world. You’ll learn how entrepreneurship can come from a single recipe, a garden bed, a batch of ferments, or a service you offer with your own two hands.
The Sovereign Kitchen Society helps you remember what you already know:
Food is freedom.
Skills are security.
And a family economy—no matter how small—can change everything.
For a Deep Dive, join us in the Pantry of Plenty
Grab your copy of The Essential Canning Cookbook
The Sovereign Kitchen Society is a weekly gathering place for people who feel the pull toward a life rooted in real food, personal sovereignty, family economy, and the old-world skills our grandparents treated as ordinary.
This podcast sits at the intersection of food and freedom. Each episode is a conversation with chefs, farmers and entrepreneurs who chose to step outside the modern maze and build a life that actually feeds them. We talk about the turning points—the moments when someone realized the system wasn’t going to save them, so they learned to save themselves. We talk about canning and cattle and kitchen-table businesses. But beneath it all, we’re talking about sovereignty: how you reclaim your time, your health, your income, and the way you feed your family.
You’ll hear how people turned old-world skills into income streams, rebuilt their nervous systems in their kitchens, raised children on broth instead of boxed snacks, and created home economies strong enough to withstand the noise of the outside world. You’ll learn how entrepreneurship can come from a single recipe, a garden bed, a batch of ferments, or a service you offer with your own two hands.
The Sovereign Kitchen Society helps you remember what you already know:
Food is freedom.
Skills are security.
And a family economy—no matter how small—can change everything.
For a Deep Dive, join us in the Pantry of Plenty
Grab your copy of The Essential Canning Cookbook
In today’s episode of The Sovereign Kitchen Society, I sit down with Adam Wilson, the steward of Sand River Community Farm and the writer behind Peasantry School, a Substack that feels like a beacon in the night.
Adam’s work is hard to describe in a single sentence. It can be described as deep philosophical work, expressed through farming and feeding others. It’s a lived experiment in rebuilding the human commons (food, land, labor, and care) without the weight of transactional systems.
At Sand River Community Farm, nothing is ever sold.
No CSA shares. No produce stand. No price list taped to a barn door.
Everything grown on that land is given as a gift and an extension of relationship with others, with the land and with nature.
This conversation moves through big terrain:
• What happens when a farmer finally says how he really feels?
• How does a community farm survive when nothing is monetized?
• What does “radical neighboring” look like in modern life?
• How do we unlearn scarcity and rebuild trust?
• And how can all of this shape our home economies, our businesses, and the sovereign kitchens we’re trying to grow?
If you’ve ever felt exhausted by the grind, overwhelmed by the cost of food, or disconnected from the people who feed us, this episode will ground you.
This is a conversation about land, belonging, and the courage to live differently.
A conversation about remembering who we are to each other.
Peasantry School Substack:
https://peasantryschool.substack.com
Sand River Community Farm:
https://sandrivercommunityfarm.org
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Food is and always will be our medium for connection.
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There’s a moment every mom hits—usually somewhere between the third load of laundry and the cold cup of coffee—when she thinks, “There has to be a better way to live than this.”
This episode is for that mom.
In this conversation, I sit down with Hilda Labrada Gore (Holistic Hilda)—host of the Wise Traditions Podcast and global traveler who has spent years visiting indigenous communities to see how they really eat, live, raise kids, and stay well without the modern chaos.
We talk about:
If you’re new to real food, slow living, or Wise Traditions, this episode will meet you right where you are—no shame, no perfection, just a path forward.
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In this episode, we return to the roots of real nourishment. I’m diving deep into CSA’s, the 11 Wise Traditions principles, and the old-world kitchen skills that rebuild a strong home economy (skills our grandparents lived by without thinking).
If you’ve been craving a slower, simpler way, seasonality, and a deeper connection to your food, this conversation will meet you where you are and show you exactly where to begin.
We’ll talk about how to join a CSA, why it’s the simplest path into sovereignty, and how traditional foods can transform the way you feed your family.
This is the first step toward a life built on intention, capability, and connection to the land.
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Keywords
CSA, local farming, seasonal cooking, food sovereignty, wise traditions, community, sustainable living, cooking skills, fresh produce, food connection
Takeaways
Every Thursday, I would get a mystery box of produce.
Food has a source, a story, and a face.
Joining a CSA is about locality and community.
Expect imperfection in your produce; it's real farming.
A CSA teaches you to live in rhythm with the seasons.
Nose to tail eating is essential for nourishment.
Fermented foods are a key part of traditional diets.
Community is everything in a CSA experience.
Start small and take actionable steps towards change.
Your sovereignty begins when you return to the root.
Chapters
00:00 The Mystery Box of Fresh Produce
01:19 Reconnecting with Food Sources
02:15 Joining a CSA: Practical Steps
05:56 Learning to Cook Seasonally
10:46 The 11 Pillars of Wise Traditions
15:22 Taking Action: Your First Steps
18:22 Embracing Old World Skills
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Starving in a Full Fridge
Why your body, your home, and your nervous system are begging for real food—and how a sovereign kitchen changes everything.
If you’ve ever stood in front of a fridge packed with groceries and still felt overwhelmed, underfed, or unsure where to begin… this episode is your invitation home. We dig into what “real food” truly means, why traditional wisdom is the antidote to modern burnout, and how building a real pantry rooted in broth, ferments, raw dairy, and seasonal abundance transforms your health, your energy, and your family’s stability.
You’ll hear the story that sparked my own return to ancestral foodways, the deeper reasons we’re so depleted in the first place, and the pathway back to a kitchen that feeds you on every level. This isn’t about trends or complicated diets. This is about sovereignty. Rhythm. Nourishment that lasts. A life that finally feels like yours again.
If this conversation awakens something in you, if you feel that pull toward confidence, and real nourishment, take the next step with us.
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In this episode of The Sovereign Kitchen Society, we explore what financial sovereignty really means—and how entrepreneurship can be the most powerful act of freedom you’ll ever make.
Shawn Finnegan, co-founder of Tax Hive and business partner to Kevin O’Leary (“Mr. Wonderful”), joins Molly Bravo to unpack the systems that separate small business owners from the financial strategies big corporations use every day. His mission is to close that gap—to help self-employed entrepreneurs keep more of what they earn, structure their businesses smartly, and thrive in today’s economy.
This conversation goes deeper than tax codes and write-offs—it’s about independence. It’s about building something that belongs to you. Because when you start your own business, you reclaim your time, your choices, and your creative power. You stop being beholden to anyone else’s paycheck or permission slip.
Shawn and Molly explore the intersection of entrepreneurship and sovereignty—how financial literacy is the backbone of freedom, how discipline leads to expansion, and how the same mindset that built empires can empower the modern maker, chef, and dreamer to build a life on purpose.
If you’ve ever wondered how to turn your passion into profit without losing your soul—or how to make your money work for you—this episode is your blueprint.
Featuring:
Shawn Finnegan — Entrepreneur, Tax Strategist, and Co-Founder of Tax Hive, empowering small business owners with the same tax-saving structures used by Fortune 500 companies.
Hosted by:
Molly Bravo — Founder of Wylder Space and The Sovereign Kitchen Society, where food, business, and freedom meet.
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Join The Sovereign Kitchen Society community to learn more about building true sovereignty—financially, nutritionally, and creatively. Because the kitchen might just be the first—and best—place to start your revolution.
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What if food could heal what politics has divided?
In this episode of The Sovereign Kitchen Society, Molly Bravo sits down with sociologist and founder of AuthenticFood.com, Dr. Janna Tamargo, to explore how ancient Turkish taverns—known as meyhanes—hold the secret to reconnection in a fractured world. Rooted in centuries of gathering, music, and unhurried meals, the meyhane reminds us what it means to sit down, disagree with grace, and rediscover common ground over good food and conversation.
From Istanbul to Santa Cruz, this conversation dives deep into authenticity, belonging, and how real food can bring us back to center - one shared table at a time.
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A locked cabinet. 212 vintage cookbooks. And a woman history forgot.
In this episode, writer and researcher Julie Dove takes us inside the mystery that changed her life: moving into an abandoned house in eastern Washington (2006) and discovering a hidden trove of cookbooks that belonged to Estella—a hostess with no children, no memoir, no obvious trail. Julie has spent years reconstructing Estella’s life from recipes, newspaper clippings, and the rhythms of gatherings she once hosted. Through her Substack, A Sense of Occasion, she cooks the dishes, follows the breadcrumbs, and shows how food can stitch people together across decades.
We talk about:
Connect with Julie: A Sense of Occasion on Substack → https://julieannedove.substack.com
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This week on The Sovereign Kitchen Society, I’m joined by Jenny McGruther—author, teacher, and founder of Nourished Kitchen—a voice that’s helped shape the Real Food movement for nearly two decades.
Jenny and I dive deep into the art of traditional foodways—fermentation, broth-making, and cooking from scratch. We talk about what it really means to unlearn the industrial food system and return to the living foods that once defined our culture.
You’ll hear Jenny’s story of starting from scratch—literally—learning the alchemy of her kitchen and discovering that real nourishment is found in community and connection.
In this episode, we explore:
This is a conversation about food, yes—but more than that, it’s about sovereignty, intuition, and the healing that happens when we slow down long enough to connect to the ingredients we prepare.
Explore Jenny’s work:
NourishedKitchen.com
Jenny’s Books
Listen now, share with a friend, and leave a review if this conversation lights you up. Food is, and always will be, our medium for connection.
In this episode, we sit down with Shelby Lancaster — homesteader, real-food advocate, writer, and community-builder — to explore what it really means to eat well, while taking care of our homes, relationships, and sovereignty in uncertain times.
Shelby’s story weaves together three threads:
You can support Shelby's work by subscribing to:
Revive The Table (her newest analog publication, printed monthly)
IG: @nourishwithshelby
Substack: @nourishwithshelby
Substack: @backtohomemakingcollective
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Real Food, Real Leadership: How to Recognize Burnout Early and Cook Your Way Back to Connected Kitchens
Burnout is real—but kitchens can heal.
In this episode, Molly Bravo sits down with Angie Colyer DuPree, founder of Hospitality Revival (Charleston), to talk real-food culture, humane leadership, and a new clinician-backed pilot program helping restaurants prevent burnout and addiction.
Want to be part of the pilot?
Reach out to Angie:
Instagram (Hospitality Revival): @hospitalityrevival
website: angiecollective.com.
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What happens when everything you thought you knew about food, health, and life crumbles to the ground? In this episode of The Sovereign Kitchen Society, host Molly Bravo sits down with Mollie Engelhart—vegan chef turned regenerative rancher, activist, author, and mother of four—whose radical awakening transformed not only her career, but her entire worldview.
From running restaurants in Los Angeles to founding Sovereignty Ranch in Texas, Mollie shares how a series of paradigm shifts beginning in 2020 that led her to embrace regenerative farming, food sovereignty, and ancestral wisdom as a way forward. Together, we explore what it means to face truth head-on, to reconnect with community, and to raise children rooted in resilience.
Grab her Book now: Debunked by Nature
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