When chronic illness left Cindy bedridden in her twenties, she began questioning everything she’d been taught about health - and later, about farming. What started as a search for healing led her and her husband to rebuild their land in Burneyville, Oklahoma, where TLC Ranch now stands: a regenerative bison ranch and certified organic pecan orchard rooted in living systems rather than chemicals. Through decades of trial, floods, and faith, Cindy discovered that the same principles that restore the body also restore the soil. This episode traces how her recovery became the land’s recovery - and what it really means to live and farm in alignment with nature.
Key Topics
- Healing through food and faith
- From chemical sprays to organic farming
- Bison behavior and herd management
- The challenges of organic certification
- Health, medicine, and trusting intuition
Timestamps
00:00:00 – Growing up outdoors and learning self-reliance
00:04:00 – Linking diet and chronic illness in the 1980s
00:08:00 – Healing through food and natural living
00:12:00 – From chemical farming to organic awareness
00:19:00 – Buying land and starting the ranch
00:27:00 – Discovering bison and learning their behavior
00:31:00 – Pecans as nutrient-dense local food
00:44:00 – Challenges of organic certification
00:53:00 – Replacing chemicals with biological inputs
00:58:00 – Managing herd health and natural balance
01:05:00 – Lessons from floods and renewal on the land