How a Swiss-born chocolate lover got a deadly heart attack, recovered with no medication, lost 30 kilos, and turned this into a profitable business on Substack.
Yana and Daniel, the interview was so interesting, educational and entertaining.
Daniel, I thoroughly enjoyed your story. Even though I knew some of it, I really learned a lot more about you. I follow you on Substack and consider you a friend.
Absolutely everything you said rings so true and coming from a person who was raised in the city like myself (Atlanta, Georgia), and then about 30 years ago, coming to a little country town in Florida and then actually living out on acreage to help my parents- it was a life-changing as you know.
With all the government rules and regulations and everything that's going on, we have to be self-sufficient and self sustaining. The lifestyle is night and day.
When Yana mentioned the egg yolks being so yellow, I'm like yeah they are yellow, but I don't buy store-bought eggs either. This year I plan on getting my own chicks, not only for eggs but also for meat. Currently, I get them free or bargain for them from a farming neighbor.
I have 10 acres, but use about an acre to grow food at this point, but that's gonna change as well. The amount of food that I can grow in that area- the yield is amazing. And isn't it nice to go out and cut your lettuce and then it just keeps growing and pull your onions and your carrots and all the vegetables and get all the nutrients and nutrition right then and there.
The last two years we've had some issues with spraying overhead (I'm surrounded by thousands of acres of farmland), as you're well aware, they don't want us grow our own food. So I'm gonna work on enclosing my raised beds (real raised beds about 3 feet tall so I don't have to lean over to plant or weed or whatever is required) because of the spraying overhead, it's almost impossible to grow in season. And as you're very aware every season is not the same- we have to adjust what we do and how we grow.
But I will agree with Yana and yourself that the taste compared to something you buy in a store is undeniable. The squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, all the things that are grown here if for some reason I had to buy something from the grocery store, which is rare, the way the product cooks, smells and tastes. There's no comparison. It's like tasting "nature or health" versus tasting cardboard or chemicals, no matter whether I soak them in my natural hydrochloric acid that I make or not.
But I can so totally relate to this and think it's wonderful that you're teaching people how to do this because there's gonna come a time that if you don't grow your own food, you're gonna eat whatever the government in your country allows you to eat or gives you to eat and I can state 100% it's not gonna be healthy.
By the way, the books you mentioned, I found the one by Cal Newport titled Deep Work, got it on Audible and then I've got the other one (I love the title) by Mark Manson... listened to the previews and bought them.
I thoroughly enjoyed this so much, I listened to it twice in a row. Your 2025 is gonna be so amazing and I can't wait to find out more about it once you launch.
Let's all become "ungovernable" together! @sanaterrafarm
Thank you Kathleen for your thoughtful comment. And yes, I too consider you a friend. Even though we have so many miles between us, we are very near in our thinking. I love your idea of having more animals on your acres. You will experience how the soil will become even more fertile than it already is. Animals raised the right, aka regenerative way make all the difference.
If I ever can help you in your homesteading journey, please feel free to reach out. It would be a pleasure, no - even an honor, to help you!
I'm sure we will have a super 2025. With the knowledge from Yana, with your understanding and experience about our body - what could be better?
I'm feeling the new year will be our time.
Thank you for your support. Your kind and meaningful comments and your friendship.
Funny how our society, even humanity, went from eating in the wild, then learn to grow the food, then forget to grow the food only because we can buy it, so now we have to again relearn it. Thank you Kathleen! I also agree Daniel has very interesting niche wich is also so very important.
Thank you, Yana. It will be a challenge to make people listen more. Because, honestly, I think there will be not too much time to adapt. But with your help, I know to succeed faster. 2025 will be amazing, you'll see.
Yana and Daniel, the interview was so interesting, educational and entertaining.
Daniel, I thoroughly enjoyed your story. Even though I knew some of it, I really learned a lot more about you. I follow you on Substack and consider you a friend.
Absolutely everything you said rings so true and coming from a person who was raised in the city like myself (Atlanta, Georgia), and then about 30 years ago, coming to a little country town in Florida and then actually living out on acreage to help my parents- it was a life-changing as you know.
With all the government rules and regulations and everything that's going on, we have to be self-sufficient and self sustaining. The lifestyle is night and day.
When Yana mentioned the egg yolks being so yellow, I'm like yeah they are yellow, but I don't buy store-bought eggs either. This year I plan on getting my own chicks, not only for eggs but also for meat. Currently, I get them free or bargain for them from a farming neighbor.
I have 10 acres, but use about an acre to grow food at this point, but that's gonna change as well. The amount of food that I can grow in that area- the yield is amazing. And isn't it nice to go out and cut your lettuce and then it just keeps growing and pull your onions and your carrots and all the vegetables and get all the nutrients and nutrition right then and there.
The last two years we've had some issues with spraying overhead (I'm surrounded by thousands of acres of farmland), as you're well aware, they don't want us grow our own food. So I'm gonna work on enclosing my raised beds (real raised beds about 3 feet tall so I don't have to lean over to plant or weed or whatever is required) because of the spraying overhead, it's almost impossible to grow in season. And as you're very aware every season is not the same- we have to adjust what we do and how we grow.
But I will agree with Yana and yourself that the taste compared to something you buy in a store is undeniable. The squash, cucumbers, tomatoes, all the things that are grown here if for some reason I had to buy something from the grocery store, which is rare, the way the product cooks, smells and tastes. There's no comparison. It's like tasting "nature or health" versus tasting cardboard or chemicals, no matter whether I soak them in my natural hydrochloric acid that I make or not.
But I can so totally relate to this and think it's wonderful that you're teaching people how to do this because there's gonna come a time that if you don't grow your own food, you're gonna eat whatever the government in your country allows you to eat or gives you to eat and I can state 100% it's not gonna be healthy.
By the way, the books you mentioned, I found the one by Cal Newport titled Deep Work, got it on Audible and then I've got the other one (I love the title) by Mark Manson... listened to the previews and bought them.
I thoroughly enjoyed this so much, I listened to it twice in a row. Your 2025 is gonna be so amazing and I can't wait to find out more about it once you launch.
Let's all become "ungovernable" together! @sanaterrafarm
The sooner the better as time is ticking away ⏰
Thank you Kathleen for your thoughtful comment. And yes, I too consider you a friend. Even though we have so many miles between us, we are very near in our thinking. I love your idea of having more animals on your acres. You will experience how the soil will become even more fertile than it already is. Animals raised the right, aka regenerative way make all the difference.
If I ever can help you in your homesteading journey, please feel free to reach out. It would be a pleasure, no - even an honor, to help you!
I'm sure we will have a super 2025. With the knowledge from Yana, with your understanding and experience about our body - what could be better?
I'm feeling the new year will be our time.
Thank you for your support. Your kind and meaningful comments and your friendship.
All the best to you.
Enjoy your Christmas holidays.
🙏
Funny how our society, even humanity, went from eating in the wild, then learn to grow the food, then forget to grow the food only because we can buy it, so now we have to again relearn it. Thank you Kathleen! I also agree Daniel has very interesting niche wich is also so very important.
Thank you, Yana. It will be a challenge to make people listen more. Because, honestly, I think there will be not too much time to adapt. But with your help, I know to succeed faster. 2025 will be amazing, you'll see.
Happy Christmas Holidays!
Oh I'm sure it wil!! Happy Holidays to you too, Daniel!