Leighton Murphy Email & Phone Number

Arriving here to Patagonia, there was this amazing connection with food and ancestral eating from just one generation back. Nearly everyone's parents grew up living out in the country. Producing all of there own, 100% grass-fed, meat. They milked their own cows and made butter and cheeses. They grew their own vegetables, preserved the harvest by pickling or storing in a root cellar. They even grew their own whole grains and spices. In order to produce this sort of harvest, one is very active, outside in fresh air, and working for a purpose. Now in the current generation here, there is an obseity epidemic and SO many health issues that require medications and severely damage quality of life. And the connection has still not been made that modern food and lifestyle has wounded this once healthy culture. However as an outsider, I have been contemplating how I can share my knowledge with a generation that is so convinced that there low quality vegetable oil and conventionally produced skinless chicken breasts with bouillon cubes are imsensly inferior to what their parents and grandparents ate. Like in effective coaching, first I need to listen. Understand their place and perspective. Who has given them this information? Then we contemplate well the lives of their ancestors and their health. Sure, in modern times life is easier, but how do they really feel? Do they feel happier? It's become a sort of meta-coaching experience in my community. So I made a blog. An English and Spanish blog about health, my experience, my questions, what I am learning, etc. And a new movement has begun in my community. Slowly. Now you can see kombucha brewing in their houses, homemade kefir, and appreciation for high quality meat. It has been so amazing to see how a bit of knowledge and listening can make a difference. Their gardens that had been cultivated with iceberg lettuce and cilantro has slightly diversified to have a plant or two of kale, and a row of spinach. For me, it has been an amazing to learn from them as well. How health is not a fad or a fancy supplement. It's how we live.

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  Farming Apprentice

  Zajac Farms

  Apr 2023 - Present - Bend, Oregon, United States

  Assist with all jobs that it takes to run a 2-acre bio-intensive style organic farm. This includes planting, harvesting, weed control, flipping beds, and planning crop rotations and cover crops. We live a short-season climate so all farming operations are adapted to the fact that the freeze-free window is very limited.