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Rewilding Midlife: Self-Sufficiency, Soil, and a Life That Makes Sense - Max Cotton
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A midlife plot twist doesn’t have to look like a crisis. It can look like soil under your nails, bread you milled yourself, and a dinner you can trace back to land you actually know.
In this episode, I sit down with BBC journalist Max Cotton, who spent an entire year eating and drinking only what he could grow or raise on his small farm in South West England. What began as a one-man protest became a deeply human exploration of resilience, reconnection, and a slower, more intentional way of living.
Max helps reframe self-sufficiency—not as an extreme lifestyle or purity test…
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