Welcome back to Soft Focus! Today, we’re diving into winter garden planning—ensuring a thriving, resilient harvest for 2025. Whether you're a beginner or seasoned gardener, these expert strategies from Late Bloomer Ranch and my kitchen gardens will set you up for success.

Though it’s winter, now is the ideal time to prepare your garden. Strategic planning now leads to a bountiful harvest, so let’s explore essential steps for a productive growing season.

What You’ll Learn:

• Many gardeners overestimate their capacity, buying too many seeds and planting more than they can maintain.
• A well-thought-out garden plan creates a manageable, efficient, and enjoyable growing experience.
• Understanding your USDA zone, frost dates, and latitude ensures proper timing and crop selection.
• Prioritize growing food you love and will actually eat for a rewarding and practical harvest.
• Companion planting enhances biodiversity, attracts pollinators, and naturally deters pests.
• Herbs and flowers provide culinary, medicinal, and ecological benefits while beautifying your space.
• Seasonal experimentation allows for adaptation, learning, and long-term garden success.
• Short growing seasons benefit from techniques like indoor seed starting, row covers, and succession planting.
• Latitude affects plant performance, so selecting region-appropriate varieties is key.
• Whether gardening in containers, raised beds, or a homestead, intentional planning leads to optimal yields.

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Imagine a perfect superfood, that was abundantly available and chock full of essential vitamins and minerals.

That superfood is pork liver! As in, the largest organ in the pig’s body. In fact, all organ meats are nutrient-dense and have so much to offer.

Are you curious about organ meats, but also a little grossed out? Or maybe you’ve hopped on the desiccated liver capsule train, but aren’t really sure how much or how often you should be taking them? Perhaps you’ve had organ meats in one capacity or another, but been scarred by the metallic taste, or the opaque supply chain with quality concerns?

If so, this episode is for you!

Today, Corinne is talking about eating liver, kidney, and heart for your health and making it taste amazing. The truth is, eating organs is an essential part of radical health. And, they are abundantly available! But, not all organs are created equal, and you don’t have to eat them every single day. Even a few ounces a week have been linked to better energy, clearer skin, better immune response, improved cardiovascular health and more.

Corinne isn’t a doctor or nutritionist— she is a farmer and rancher, and she shares her experience here.

Corinne discusses:

• How her vanity led her to an interest in organ meats.
• The first pig heart failure
• What are organ meats? What is offal?
• Why organ meats are more nutritious than muscle meat
• The link between industrial agriculture and organ meats falling out of fashion
• Key nutrients in liver
• Why pork liver might be a better fit for you than beef liver
• Key nutrients in kidney
• Key nutrients in heart
• Why do we need these key nutrients?
• How to conceptualize organ meat portions?
• Why you need to be aware of vitamin A
• How Corinne meal plans in her house to integrate organs
• Holistic perspective on eating whole animals
• Misconceptions about eating liver and kidney
• The importance of sourcing your organ meats from trustworthy farmers using biologically appropriate feeds
• Cooking tips and notes from the kitchen
• Primal Ground Pork— the cheat code
• Super easy organ meat cooking hack

Tag latebloomerranch in your cooking adventures!

This episode was brought to you by Late Bloomer Ranch. Be sure to check our farm-raised yarn, flower essences, and BloomBoxes available to ship in the continental USA. Right now, check out the Winter’s Bliss Box for the most nutritious cuts of pork, including the primal ground pork full of organ meats.

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After a little hiatus, the Soft Focus is back. And today’s episode is a deep dive into the world of ghee— an ancestral superfood of clarified butter.

Sheerlie Ryngler, the woman behind cult ghee brand Belly of the Sun, is on the podcast today sharing the magic of healthy fat. At Belly of the Sun, she clarifies grass-fed butter and blends it with powerful herbs to make amazing treats that nourish body and spirit. Not only is her ghee sumptuous and full of nutrition, it is also crafted to support mood, immunity, fertility and more.

Corinne and Sheerlie discuss—

• Why Ghee?
• Herbal ghee as a way to stack functions
• Sacred traditions around the world celebrating ghee, milk, etc
• Fat fueling abundance and safety
• Chronic misunderstanding of fat in the diet
• The interplay of fat, safety, fertility, and resilience
• The various body systems that rely on fat
• The essence of being and feeling nourished
• How Sheerlie makes her blends
• The power of direct-experience with herbs
• How Sheerlie sources her products
• Sierra Nevada cheese company
• Why grass-fed, pasture-raised butter is different
• The key detail about getting enough vitamin D
• The power of ancestral practices
• The nutritional profile of ghee, and why it might be better for people sensitive to dairy
• How food sensitivities are mostly reversible
• Corinne’s personal experience getting over her food sensitivities
• The radical power of simplicity
• Sheerlie’s experience moving to a rural area from an urban upbringing
• How coming home to ourselves can be a challenging process
• Sheerlie’s new direction with Belly of the Sun
• Our societal misconceptions about premium food products
• Why some food on grocery stores shelves is so cheap
• The importance of raising prices and valuing ourselves in our businesses
• Sheerlie’s view on living with deeper intention and clarity
• Connecting the dots between our choices and what we wish to create in the world
• Digging deep to find strength when it feels like everything is stacked against you

Interested in connecting with Sheerlie? Find her online www.bellyofthesun.com and on instagram bellyofthesun.
Check out the amazing sampler box of ghee and get hooked for yourself.

This episode was brought to you by Late Bloomer Ranch. Be sure to check our farm-raised yarn, flower essences, and BloomBoxes available to ship in the continental USA.

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