Faith, Farming, and Food Security: How to Take Control of Your Plate with David Stelzer

"Are Your Groceries Slowly Killing You? The Truth About Food Security"

Tired of empty grocery shelves and rising food prices? What if the "healthy" food you're buying is actually making you sick?

In this eye-opening episode of Preparedness Pro, Kellene speaks with David Stelzer, founder of Azure Standard, who went from selling grain out of his pickup truck to building a company serving over a million families across all 50 states.

You'll discover:

• The shocking truth about how modern farming practices are depleting nutrients from your food
• Why David's family farm went completely organic in 1973 (long before it was profitable)
• Three practical steps ANY family can take toward food independence, regardless of space
• David's personal journey from sickly child to raising 11 healthy kids who've barely seen a doctor
• How fear-based marketing is undermining your family's health and what to do about it

Whether you have acres of land or just a windowsill, David shares concrete strategies for breaking free from our fragile food system and reclaiming control of what goes on your plate.

Listen now and take your first step toward true food freedom!
Check out Azure Standard here: https://www.azurestandard.com/?a_aid=2eab571957

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Transcript

Faith, Farming, and Food Security: How to Take Control of Your Plate with David Stelzer
Kellene: [00:00:00] Welcome to Preparedness Pro, where being prepared isn't about fear, it's about freedom. I'm your host, Kellene, and every episode we explore the peaceful principles of preparedness and self reliance. No gloom, no doom, just practical solutions for everyday living that help you become more independent and prepared for whatever life brings your way.
From kitchen skills to financial wisdom, emergency planning to sustainable living. We're building a community of capable, confident people who understand that preparedness isn't about preparing for the worst. It's about being free to live your best life regardless of what comes your way. So whether you're starting your preparedness journey or you're a seasoned pro, you're in the right place.
Welcome.
Hello, everyone. It's Kellene, the Preparedness Pro. I'm happy to be with you today. We've got another great show. How about them apples? We managed to do great shows over and over again. And we've got another great one in store for you. Faith, Farming, [00:01:00] and Food Security. We're going to visit with David Stelzer today.
Of Azure standard. If you haven't heard of Azure standard, you're in for a treat. They are an answer to so many of your prayers. But David is a very unique individual. He grew up in farming. His hobby is gardening. Go figure. And, he is. The founder of Azure Standard, and he actually has 11 children.
He's the dad to 11 children. Isn't that awesome? A lot of helping hands in the garden, I would hope. Anyway, , so we're going to get to know David and his background a lot better, but we're going to explore , some really important topics today. Food security, I think, is something that A lot of us, , care about, and we're trying to take control over the food that we eat and the products that we put in our body.
, I get my all natural whole food supplements from Azure standards. I don't. Pay the network marketing company price. Instead, I pay the Azure standard price and I actually get whole food supplements, not [00:02:00] synthetics. So I love them for that. And I love their system. They'll come to a community near you.
You place your order. The next month you go and pick it up. , everybody's so orderly. They all help unload the truck and they all put things down. It's just so organized. It's awesome to see a community get together like this, but Azure standards all over the U. S. And, you should check them out at azurestandard.
com. But we're going to talk with David today. So David, I'm going to put you on the spot right off the bat. I'm going to ask you a question. Your family has over a century of farming tradition in the Pacific Northwest. So how did that heritage shape your personal journey into organic farming? 
David: Well, it was, I am actually second generation for organic farming.
My dad actually made that decision, in 1973. I was still a pretty young guy at that point in time, not really making the decisions yet. And, so I did [00:03:00] come in through, into it through our heritage, you know, from the previous generation. , 
Kellene: But it was quite a switch for you guys, for your family farm to switch to organic.
You went cold turkey, no chemicals. Let's see what we can do with organic farming. 
David: . Dad did it out of conviction. Not because he thought he could make more money at it or some other reason. In fact, there really wasn't even any market for it in 73 
Kellene: to 
David: speak of. He did it because he thought it was the right thing to do for his family's health, for the health of the planet.
And he always used to tell me, he said, always remember that the farmer is the guardian of the nation's health. 
Kellene: And 
David: that's something that always stuck with me. So he Definitely, was a forerunner a little bit ahead of his time when it came to, this whole, subject. 
Kellene: I like that notion of the farmer being the guardian to the nation's health.
RFK Jr. would really appreciate hearing that, I'm [00:04:00] sure. 
David: Maybe so. 
Kellene: Now, you started selling grain from your family farm out of your pickup truck at just 21 years old, correct? 
David: Well, actually a little younger than that. I started Azure standard when I was 21 years old. 
Kellene: Oh, wow. So what challenges did you face in those early days?
What kept you motivated?
David: Well, you know, when I started actually becoming the responsible party for the farm, I began to realize that a farmer was in kind of this strange situation. You go and you kind of hold both hands up and you say. Well, how much do you, do I have to pay for, my tractor, fuel, property taxes, all the big expenses for the farm and small ones.
And the other hand you hold up to the grain commodities board or whatever and you say, how much do you pay me for my grain, cattle, whatever it is you're raising. The only thing the farmer then has control [00:05:00] over is the quantity. Which is a complete incentive for bad quality because all you care about all that you're economically incentivized for is quantity.
I did not want to be that farmer. I did not want to be the farmer that was going to say, I have to produce more and more crappy stuff because all I get paid for is quantity.
 In my mind, , well, somebody cares about what food they're eating. I don't know for sure who all the somebodies are, but I need to find those somebodies. And so, you know, I started out going around, you know, co ops and natural food stores and stuff like that. And, Saying, Hey, will you buy some grain?
I remember I used to go to a lot of magic mill stores back in those days. So it was 
Kellene: [00:06:00] a 
David: company called magic mill and Bosch. They were somehow connected and I would sell grain to all these little magic mill stores. That was one of my bigger markets. 
Kellene: I think 
David: they've kind of disappeared now for the most part.
Kellene: Well, the Bosch stores are still all over. I, I still buy from Bosch stores, , okay. So Azure Standard has grown to serve over 3 million families across all 50 states. What aspect of the growth has surprised you the most? 
David: Well, surprise me, I guess, from what point, moving forward, the biggest surprises. That I had as far as growth spurts happened when there were some kind of , a major economic downturn.
And we saw that, you know, I saw a big growth spurt in 2008 when we had that crisis and then when COVID first started, we saw a huge growth spurt at the beginning of that, when the economy [00:07:00] was just trashed from the COVID. Lockdowns, not from COVID, from the lockdowns. We saw a really large growth spurt that totally surprised me.
, probably the biggest surprise I ever had as far as Azure growth was March 15th of 2020. Or maybe it was anyway, right in there, the president went out and declared that we were going to have lockdowns. And truthfully, I didn't think anything of it. I'm out in the middle of nowhere. Couldn't give a rip really.
, out in the farm and, it was, on a Friday. And on a Sunday, I got a call from one of my, one of the people in the team, and they said, have you looked at our web traffic and I haven't been, I'm out here doing my favorite hobby in the garden today and it's a Sunday afternoon. 
 So I went and looked and we had received more orders. That Saturday and that Friday [00:08:00] night, Saturday and Sunday, then we had the previous three months. 
Kellene: Wow. 
David: So that was probably my biggest surprise I ever had. 
Kellene: That is a doozy. Okay. So many of our listeners are concerned about food security.
David: Share with us your thoughts on how vulnerable is our current food system and what are the biggest threats to it? 
Our food system is very fragmented and it comes in from all over the world. It's a relatively complex logistical puzzle we even saw major disruptions in food supply. 
When even small things happen, for instance, there is a scare grocery store shelves will empty out in a big hurry before you can even imagine it because everything is on a timer. Basically, everyone's, , just producing enough. [00:09:00] That they're producing just enough for what they sell. So then we 
Kellene: have just in time delivery on top of that.
David: Oh, exactly. I mean, no grocery store or even food warehouse for the most part is going to, do more than a few weeks supply. In fact, in business, they teach us the faster your turns are, the more money you make, right? So you're trying to increase turns. And then when we get. Global issues, for instance, the, the issues that we had at the ports here a couple of years back, particularly not that they're completely cleared up even to this day, but we had ships lined up at the port.
So there wasn't near as much ocean freight happening. We had massive shortages , in some segments, the imported side of the, of the equation. Which, unbelievably, is a lot. 
Kellene: Well, let's talk about food independence. If you [00:10:00] could suggest how families could become more food independent, what are three things that you could suggest that they could do?
David: Number one, grow a garden. 
Kellene: Mm hmm. 
David: That's a very, important part, even if it's in the flower bed at a suburban place. I think that's good on multiple levels. Number two, most important thing, have a pantry and I'm not saying 10 years of supply in the basement or dug in a bunker.
Just have a pantry that you have enough that you buy in bulk and use by the things, have the things that you normally eat, not things you don't eat. Have. What you would use over the course of the next few months, even having a pantry is, it's very, very important.
And then I would say number three is really know how to prepare good, tasty food from [00:11:00] the raw ingredients. And I think those are probably, , but those are probably the three focus points, I would say. 
Kellene: Well, I'm sure that your thoughts on food security have evolved over the years.
Can you share with us some of that evolution?
David: , food security was more like a thing where, hey, have enough food. You know, in case some terrible thing happens that, you know, you're okay. But now my thought is very, I guess that's still an aspect of it, but the biggest part of food security is about the quality of our food.
 We can die of starvation and be obese at the same time. And that's the problem that we have with the food system in America right now. We have a system where we have over processed, over refined, addictive foods that are being pawned [00:12:00] off as, even as healthy foods.
That is the biggest threat to food security in my mind now. It's about the quality of the food being such that it brings health, nutritional fulfillment, and energy, and thinking clearly, and all those things to us. Because if we have our health, you know, we can survive almost anything if we don't.
Even if we have a whole basement full of food, we're in tough luck. And I really feel like food security, that's the biggest threat that I see today. And that's kind of the evolution that I've seen in the last 25 years or so. 
Kellene: Yeah, I agree with you. I think that, we're very vulnerable to the chemicals and such in our food and it has caused a health crisis.
And so food security needs to include quality food to truly be secure. And I love it when people ask me, where can I find, , good quality food that'll stay [00:13:00] on my shelf for a while. And I tell them grow your own and then can it. That's your best bet. What are some of your favorite food preservation methods?
David: Well, I mean canning is still top of the list in my book too, as far as preserving the food out of your own orchard and garden. In fact, I, I actually put a lot of work into that for our Azure customers to come up with a better, we actually put our own line of canning jars out because I believe so strongly in it.
And, you know, pretty much ball was the only one in the game, which is actually Rubbermaid and their stuff was getting really poor quality. It was discouraging a lot of folks. And so we actually designed and built our, We don't make it. I don't have a glass factory, but it's our design and, specifications for our own line of canning jars.
 That's super important. Drying is nice, both freeze drying and traditional drying. I guess I'm a little bit more introduced to [00:14:00] just traditional drying more than freeze drying at this point. But we still use a lot dry, a lot of our own herbs and spices and things like that, as well as a little bit of fruit for snacks.
 It's a great way to preserve food and then, if you're in the right, you know, right position, the freezing or freeze drying, or you can, the cool part about freeze drying is you can traditionally freeze the foods ahead of time and dry it slowly over time from frozen. and it actually even works better.
So if you want to, if you have extra peaches, throw them in the, slice them up, throw them in the freezer, and then you can run out of freezer space, you can freeze dry them. 
Kellene: Interesting. That's interesting. Well, beyond, Beyond growing food, there's a lot of people who want quality food preservation.
But there's a lot of people who feel like they can't, they have limited space. How would urban or suburban dwellers with limited space [00:15:00] participate in creating their own food security? What would you suggest? 
David: You can always grow a little bit, even if it's in the house.
 And I highly recommend that, you know, micro greens are super easy to grow guys. 
Kellene: Amen. They are. They're so great. 
David: And sprouting is a great way to get, optimal nutrition from home. But it doesn't take a lot of space to store the staples, to have a pantry. You can have a pantry in very, very little space and you can save money at the same time.
 We sometimes have people send in pictures of some of their. Ways to store their pantry ideas. And, one of the most fun ones is the gallon jars, the glass gallon jars. We sell the glass gallon. We call them milk jars, but they're like gallon milk, gallon jars that, you know, like homesteaders put milk in a lot of times but instead of milk, they're putting them in shelves, like they build these little wooden [00:16:00] shelves.
They go out about 10 inches from the wall. Along the whole wall in the inside of the house. And then they just line these jars up all in the, in these shelves. It looks like a little, , rack and it's all, some of them will have. Okay. So here's the gallon jar rack and here's the court jar and here's the pipe jar rack, and it's really cute and very practical, you lose one space.
 10 inches of wall space. It's super convenient. You don't even have to put doors on it unless you want to, for some reason. And it's sealed tight in glass. One of the best preservation methods that you can for dry goods. And that's not, if you're doing wet canning, of course, you don't have to keep those upright and everything, but these, you can slide in there on their side or however, you know, at an angle or however you do it.
That's one cute way. That's very practical and very safe. But there's certainly others as well. Buckets and that can [00:17:00] even be under the counters, in anywhere, 
Kellene: under the bed, even 
David: under the bed. Yeah. We have the buckets with gamma lids. Two gallon, you can put a gamma lid on it, which is basically it's , goes on a bucket tight, but then the whole middle screws out.
And it makes it much 
Kellene: easier to get into. Yeah. 
David: Makes it easy to get in and out. And they're sealed so the insects and moisture doesn't easily get in. 
Kellene: So let's say we've got, a self reliant person developing, their own food production. What essential skills should every self reliant person develop regarding food production?
David: Food production. Obviously you're going to start in the garden or with , a little few animals. You're going to, from a gardening perspective, it's not super hard and the garden is super, super forgiving in all fairness, but, you know, don't get too [00:18:00] confused by all the different methodologies.
Oh, you got to do tillage. No, you don't want to do any tillage. Use cardboard, use compost, use so that they, all those methods will work it to some degree, but none of them are bad. They all are fine. The main thing is you just want to have. As many nutrients as you can in your soil.
So if you have super poor soil and you can, it's super easy to see, Hey, how do things grow, how do the weeds grow? How does the grass grow? You know, if it's rich soil. The weeds and the grass are going to be growing just fine too. If nothing grows, then, you know, , you got to put a lot more nutrients on.
 Also another little trick for making things grow. I've always used when you don't. You don't know how to do soil testing and all those kinds of things that us that are into [00:19:00] agriculture do. So we rely on a lot of things. We use SAP analysis. We use soil tests. We use BRICS meters. We use all these special gadgets , and stuff to get optimum.
But truthfully, you can do all that stuff fine just by looking at it, looking at your plants. And if your plant looks a little peaked, one of the easy ones is liquid fish. Just dilute up some liquid fish, just like off the label. Give every plant, depending on how big the plant is, but a pint, a quart, or even a gallon, if it's a bigger plant of liquid fish.
And if your soil is really poor, you can almost keep it going. If you do that about every two weeks throughout the growing season. It's a really quick shortcut to be able to grow anything. Otherwise, you know, watch your weeds. Let your weeds come up at least once.
Till them out or cultivate them out in some way before you plant. Is helpful. [00:20:00] Otherwise, you spend a lot more time, getting the weeds out. , otherwise, Hey, gardening is really not that difficult. You got to , keep a little bit of nutrition on and you got to give the plant light and space.
And that's just about it. When you come right down to it. And, you know, there's all the complexities of garden and you can read a hundred books about gardening and all the different companion planning and seed rate, really, I mean, those are all just little fun things. The basics are simple. 
Kellene: What do you see beginners make in terms of mistakes when they try to get into their own food production? 
David: , number one, they try to raise things they don't even know what are. They get into a seed catalog and start reading the descriptions. And they have all these things that they don't even know what they are.
To do with them. Color I love color out by and maybe other people do too, but I've seen so many [00:21:00] people ask What the heck do I do with this now?
Another thing they'll try to do is I can't tell you how many people have asked me how well I decided to plant some beans or some grain or something like that. They don't have a clue how to harvest it or to process it once they did harvest it. So that's definitely, you know, don't grow something you don't actually know how to eat, how to use.
Don't grow something that you don't know how to harvest. I could teach you how to harvest grain. But it's a lot of work, it's a lot cheaper to buy grain that somebody that has a combine than trying to, thrash it like they did, , thousand years ago. 
Kellene: Yeah. 
David: Because, the equipment has come a long ways in the last 500 years or so in that space. 
Kellene: So what do you say to people who think that organic farming or organic foods is just a marketing gimmick to get more money?
David: That they don't know anything about it yet and [00:22:00] they need to understand biology just a little bit. The basic Principle, if I give it to you in just, , a two minute synopsis, there are a ton, hundreds of farm chemicals, but if you just do two, the most common things.
And one is the weed killer roundup the glyphosate issue. Glyphosate is a mineral inhibitor. It does not allow the plant to take up proper minerals. It makes the immune system of the plant no good and it dies from Fusarium wilt or some other disease. That's how Roundup works. The problem is when we get into our bodies, it up inhibits the uptake of minerals in our bodies as well.
And it is a hundred percent linked to chronic illnesses and, . A whole bunch, almost all the autoimmune disorders, you almost never heard of autoimmune disorders, say [00:23:00] 40 years ago or 50 years ago. And today, almost everybody has some. That in my opinion, and there's a lot of science to back this up, is highly. 
Caused by the glyphosate. Number two anhydrous ammonia or ammonium ni um, aqua ammonium nitrates. In a farm , in the soil, there's a symbiotic relationship between bacteria in the soil. And the nutrient and the plant, the plant exudes sugars from its photosynthetic action into the soil to energize the microbes, the microbes break down the available nutrients that are in the soil, be that from mineral or plant matter and make it bioavailable to the plant.
David: And that's the way it's supposed to work in nature. And nitrogen is the growth regulator. And if all the nutrients in the plant are available, the nitrogen [00:24:00] goes up and the plant grows bigger. If not enough nutrients, because the bacterial count is too low, is too small. The nitrogen goes down and the plant is smaller.
So it concentrates the few nutrients that it has into a smaller footprint or less, volume in, in the plant. So farmers figured out some, you know, around, world war two time or a little before that nitrogen could be synthesized. So you could create, and it's. This anhydrous ammonia, and you could put it on the soil and the plant would think that it has nitrogen when it really doesn't.
So it grows a lot more volume. So back to what a farmer is paid by volume, the size of the plant. So it makes the plant grow a lot bigger while the plant has no way to You can't synthesize the other nutrients in the soil. There are [00:25:00] 72 nutrients that we need that are known right now That we need for optimum health.
There's maybe more but You know science will tell us we need at least 72 nutrients for optimum health when you're feeding the soil and creating this much larger plant So a lot more carbohydrates because it just created, you know, there's more leaves and stuff to create the sugars but the Microbes did not break down the nutrients in the soil because the growth regulator was synthesized Then you have nutrient deficient food So you're getting food that does not have the nutrients in it That the plant originally had it in it when God made it for us for food or nature designed that food, that plant for, food for us or other animals.
And that's, though, if you just had those two things, and now there's a bunch more and I can get [00:26:00] into a bunch more, but just those two things in and of themselves, and those two are never going to get by. There's people that'll cheat on other areas and organics, maybe new, maybe hear about stories, but no farmer's going to get away with either one of those two.
Cause they're super obvious and any inspector would catch it a hundred percent. And it's more than a hundred percent plus worth going to organic for just those two things. 
Kellene: Wow. So you talked about optimal health. Have you had experience with people who are, who have been able to change their life because of going organic.
David: Oh, absolutely. I get to hear that story all the time. That's one of my favorites and my own story comes from that side and it really started with my parents, but you know, I was a super sickly child. The doctors told my parents that I probably would not make it even to.
to adolescence, let alone adulthood, because I had all this stuff [00:27:00] wrong. And my parents did not want to believe that. And so they made dietary changes. They changed the diet in our household and I regained my health. My grandfather was also there. He was, he had heart disease. He couldn't hardly walk across the yard without having to pop heart medicine.
And after changing the diet in our family, he completely recovered. And he was, about 10 years later, he was actually killed in a farming accident, working 18 hours a day again on the farm. He completely regained his health. And so that's why I'm so sold on it to begin with, because my story and our family story starts with dietary change, changing our health and changing the outlook.
And that's what I love doing the most here at Azure is being able to supply. Food to, families, I hate to, without their permission to use other people's [00:28:00] examples, but even in my family, you know, I, I was a sickly kid. My wife had a pretty rough childhood as well, as far as health goes, but when we got married, we complete, we went to a purist diet. 
We don't, you know, we don't cheat at all. On , our diet, we. , it's either out of the garden or it's organic, or it's just the way, very clean. And so we raised our kids doing that. I don't think any of them even knew what candy tasted like. I don't think most of our children have ever been to McDonald's to this day.
David: They've don't even know what it is. It looks gross to them now. What we experienced, you know, both of us as kids were like at the doctor in and out all the time and stuff. But when we changed our diet, really neither one of us have been back since then. And we raised 11 kids and none of them ever saw a medical doctor.
They never even had a primary care physician because they never even saw a doctor. [00:29:00] They never got ill enough to see a doctor other than we did have one broken femur that. We, got a doctor to help set that, but other than that, there was never an illness. So, in my own life, in my own family, , it works.
And it works pretty much for everyone who does it carefully. 
Kellene: You 
David: know, Hey, do it once a week, probably not going to make a, it's not going to change your life. Do it steady, , do it 90 plus 95 percent of the time, and you're going to start seeing a major difference, you know, eating organic and it's not just organic.
I mean, don't eat a bunch of organic sugar. Either do it in balance. I mean you can get organic sugar. You can get some organic junk food It's not just about organic. It's about eating a balanced and healthy diet, I should say really [00:30:00] devoid of any process heavily industrialized process foods.
Just cut that out and make foods as close to the way is nature intended as you possibly can. And that's when you really start seeing results and it, it works. You know, it's not a fast thing. It's not going to happen in three days or two weeks. But over the course of a year and especially over the course of, , a lifetime, it'll reap dividends like, you'd never imagine.
Kellene: Your work seems guided, if you will, by, deeper principles beyond just business success. How does your personal philosophy Inform your approach to farming and food distribution.
David: It's because I so strongly believe in healthy food from healthy soil creates healthy families and I also believe very strongly That the health of a nation, including the mental [00:31:00] health of is a completely guided by the health of the body.
And so by being able to give families an option for healthy food at a price that a family can actually afford. You know, it's not whole paycheck, retail stores downtown that you can go to, you can get healthy food in bulk, fill your pantry, eat from home, and you can eat for less than you would eat the highly processed food for, if you're willing to make, if you're willing to prepare those meals for your family, and I really see that as, you know, my mission, I really, Believe in healthy food for families.
I think, every child should have the opportunity to grow up strong and healthy. Kids should be eating healthy food so they're not so [00:32:00] lethargic that they want to sit and play video games. The kids need to be out climbing trees and doing the things kids do. Uh, helmet or no helmet, they need to be doing those things. 
And that's, that's what creates a healthy society. If the children grow up healthy, they grow up healthy, both physically and mentally. And they will think straight and they will make good decisions for their life. I really believe that the, you know, we talk about drug addiction and all this stuff.
David: The gateway to that is unhealthy food practices. It's sugar addiction. It's food additives and excitotoxins and all that stuff. That's what's the gateway to drug abuse. It's, you know, some people say, Oh, well, you know, societal. Yeah, sure. Fine. But healthy kids that were raised with healthy bodies don't even want it.
 There's no desire to try to. Pick me up when you felt [00:33:00] perfectly good. Why do you want speed if you're already going at a hundred miles an hour? No one wants it. Yeah, and there it just seems stupid and It's a big thing. The healthier the society is, the harder they work, the cleaner they eat, the less drug abuse, the less suicide, the less issues that we have with our young people.
And the youth is, is really what's, what's going to dictate the next 20, 30 years. 
Kellene: Yeah, when I was discussing with your team before we did the podcast, you know, what type of discussion topics. One of your discussion topics was faith over fear, and I'm curious how that mindset applies to perhaps becoming more self reliant.
David: That's a really good point and one of , my favorite things to, to talk about. You know, in many ways when we are Sold a bill of goods, whether it was, you know, Hey, this COVID things was a super [00:34:00] example of that. They rolled out the fear big time. Oh, you know, this is terrible, terrible, terrible.
And you better stay at home. You better not go outside. You better mask. You better do this. You better do that. You better not do anything that is healthy because you might. You ought to, you better be afraid of this. You better get, I don't know how many booster vaccinations and this and that, because you ought to be afraid of this thing, you know, that's, I mean, that's just such a dramatic example because it just happened, you know, in the last few years and almost everyone remembers it, but media and marketing has relied on.
Fear to push us towards to motivate people to do something IE by this thing. Oh, I'm afraid that I'm not going to be very pretty. So I'm going to buy this makeup or I'm, or this clothes, or I'm afraid that people won't, I won't fit in [00:35:00] society unless I have this kind of car or, the fear that side or the fear that.
Hey, you know, we better, medicate ourselves with these drugs and this and that. If we don't, , so that, and then that happens in marketing and in society through the major corporations and the government does the same thing. It's fear. Oh, let us take care of you. I mean, you can't take care of yourself by god, you know , we need the fda to regulate food safety You couldn't possibly have you know, have some raw milk or something super dangerous like that The fda has to make sure that that's not gonna come into you know your state , 
you know, probably every, almost every agency out there that the government has created is the way they sell it to get it to start is through fear. Oh, we're afraid that the houses aren't going to be built strong enough. And they're going to blow down in a hurricane. So we're going to create. The [00:36:00] department of housing and urban development and building codes and this and that, you know, people have built some amazing houses.
If you ever go to Europe and look at 500 and plus year old houses, they're still standing just fine before any of that crap ever happened. And so people left to their own ingenuity can do a wonderful job at this kind of stuff, but fear brings in , these regulatory things, it brings in, we're all basically controlled through fear and we're, sold things that actually have decreased the quality of our life.
And , we get sold that about our raising our families too. You look at that, you know, everybody is so afraid that we're going to do something to damage our kids. Oh, well, you know, and they even pass laws. Well, you better have car seats and tell the kids 70 pounds or some crazy [00:37:00] thing. You got to be sure that, if they ride a bike, they need to make sure they have a bike helmet on and knee pads and elbow pads and all this stuff, man, that is not, what's important, the important piece is to allow that child to experience life the way it really is and ride that, bike, maybe without a helmet down the long hill, 30 miles an hour, and if they crash and skin their arm up. It will get well if, but if they're sitting inside just, you know, because they're so afraid that they're going to get hurt climbing the tallest tree or riding their bike or their motorbike, or, you know, even going for a long hike, what if you get lost?
 All these fear factors. So they sit inside and watch TV. Then you have damage. So the fear of the [00:38:00] external creates the internal damage. That is so much greater than any external damage that could have possibly happened, even if the worst case scenario, you know, so if I talk about this, this is kind of what I'm trying to say is that we need to, our motivation needs to be.
 Not fear, we need to be thinking about that every time that we do something. Are we doing this because we're afraid of the alternative? Are we doing this because we know it's the right thing to do? And there is a big difference. If we really dig deep into the motivation of what we do on a daily basis, am I doing this?
Am I eating right because I want to live a healthy life or am I eating right? Because I'm afraid of cancer. And, , it may end up basically the same result being the case, but it's not the same result because of the way we look at it. If we look [00:39:00] for a healthy and vibrant life, we're not going to get cancer, but if we're eating that way because we're afraid of cancer, and I'm just using that as an example, it could be anything. 
Because we're afraid of a motivation that's going to give us, yeah, we're going to be eating the same thing possibly, but we're not going to get near the bang for our buck, so to speak, as if our motivation is healthy living. So I always want to encourage people, you talk about preparedness a lot, is our motivation because we want to live a better life, because we want to be able to eat healthier foods, because we want to be skilled.
David: And life skills or as our motivation is we're afraid That one day there, the system, so to speak, that we have in place is going to come crashing down on everyone's heads. And we want to be out in the country and we want to be somewhere where life is going to be a little simpler if something like that happens.
Or do we [00:40:00] want to be out in the country and doing that because we want to raise our families in a healthy lifestyle. The same result could happen, but it's a completely different mindset. 
Kellene: Yeah, absolutely. Well, I think that's a great note for us to end on. I'd like to share with the audience of how they can experience Azure Standard themselves.
And I'll put a link in the description as well. But why don't you share with everyone how they can find out more about Azure Standard and what Azure Standard has to offer. 
David: All right. Well, Azure Standard is, your premier, distributor of organic and healthy food ingredients and gardening supplies and everything that you would need to help live a healthy lifestyle.
We created a little bit different logistics model where instead of, , shipping products directly, in. The mail or UPS or something we, we have trucks that go all over the country and we deliver into [00:41:00] local communities. So it's a much more efficient model because we're able to take off large quantities, pallet loads of stuff at local communities throughout the country as the trucks go across the country.
And so we call those spots drop points and Then you can just place an order and you choose the closest drop point to find a drop point near you , in the footer of the azurestandard. com website. There's a little link that says find a drop, and it'll just pull up a little map and you can either zoom in and find your location on the map or you can actually type your zip code in there and it'll do the search for you as well.
But then you can place an order and then you can pick it up at that drop point. Location. We have about a little over 4, 000 of those drops around the country. Can't say it's going to be super close to everyone, but usually it's within. 15, 20 minute drive of [00:42:00] the majority of people, unless you really live out way out in the booties.
Kellene: Yeah. Well, I've had positive experience. I had my, , Einkhorn wheat come in and I was so happy about it. And I was so happy to find farro as well. I had to order my farro because it used to be more abundantly available in the wholesale warehouses. And it's just not, and I love farro, especially I love cooking it in my pot roast, it just tastes.
It tastes so good farro and sweet potatoes in my pot roast. It's divine. So, I'm glad that you guys carry that. Well, thank you so much for your time today, David. I know that you're so busy and I'm grateful for your philosophy to help mankind. And I'm thankful for the time that you were able to spend with us today.
Thank you so much. 
David: Well, thank you, Kellene. I appreciate, you doing that, getting out there and teaching people about, Food preparedness. It is important. Thank you.
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