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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