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Best To The Nest

When Elizabeth Ries and Margery Punnett hosted a myTalk 107.1 radio show together, they joked that their most personal conversations happened during the commercial breaks. During one of these pauses, Margery shared an important family principle: bringing your best self to your home. Being an urban farmer with a flock of chickens, Elizabeth quipped, "Bring your best to the nest!" The outside world shouldn't get the smiling happy version of you while your family gets the crabby and exhausted one. On "Best To The Nest," Margery & Elizabeth explore the simple concept of creating strong, comforting, beautiful nests that prepare us to fly.

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EP. 428 Best to the Nest: Find Your Farmer Part 2
Here are some resources to help you along the way: Weston A Price Foundation Shopping Guide: https://www.westonaprice.org/about-us/shopping-guide/#gsc.tab=0Farm Match: Farm Match https://www.farmmatch.com/Check out: CSA - Community Supported AgricultureFarmers’ Markets Online Shopping: Butcher Box, Force of Nature, Good Rancher Co-ops and locally-owned grocery stores –– prioritize ...
EP. 427 Best to the Nest: Find Your Farmer
Eggs are the inspiration for this episode! It’s time to talk about food sourcing and supporting the farmers in your community. Control what you can control and meet some new and wonderful people in the process. (One of us is VERY, VERY ...
EP. 426 Best to the Nest: Rich & Miserable
We are digging deep in response to a recent study that shows despite the significant economic growth in this country in the last thirty years our happiness levels are declining. On most quality-of-life metrics, the United States lags behind so many other ...
EP. 425 Best to the Nest: February 2025 WRL
Happy watching, reading, and listening this week!Margery:Watch: Love at First Sight on Netflix Read/Listen: The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids by Alexandra LangeListen: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony BourdainElizabeth:Watch: Couples Therapy on ShowtimeRead: Homestead Living Magazine Listen: Get the Hell Out of Debt –– podcast ...
EP. 424 Best to the Nest: Family Rules
This is so gooooood! Bernie is on top of it, and so are all of you. Bernie has created the House Rules for the Ries/Reimers Household, and you have shared so many of yours as well. Thank you! And the sock link, ...
EP. 423 Best to the Nest: Home Fires
How strange it is to think about the idiom “keep the home fires burning,” while witnessing the catastrophic and ongoing fires in California. The phrase comes from the 1914 song “Keep the Home Fires Burning (Till the Boys Get Home)." The ...
EP. 422 Best to the Nest: January 2025 WRL
Happy watching, reading, and listening this week!Margery:Watch: Conclave on Apple TV Read/Listen: What I Ate in One Year and Related Thoughts by Stanley TucciListen: Heroes by Prince Live at the Fox Theatre AtlantaElizabeth:Watch: Be My Guest on Food Network Read: The Briar Club by Kate QuinnListen: Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm GladwellPour Moi ...
EP. 421 Best to the Nest: Find a Bolt Hole Part 2
We are continuing our chat about listening to the still small voice, embracing big adventures, and finding love across the universe. Yay!Pour Moi Climate Smart Skincare –– This is the skin care regimen we both use and love. It’s affordable luxury skincare from ...
EP. 420 Best to the Nest: Find a Bolt Hole
Finally home. We are chatting about listening to the still small voice, embracing big adventures, and finding love across the universe. Yay! Pour Moi Climate Smart Skincare –– This is the skin care regimen we both use and love. It’s affordable luxury skincare ...
EP. 419 Best to the Nest: New Year 2025
These are the questions we are asking this New Year: How are we approaching the New Year?Are you making resolutions? A word of the year?What are you happy to leave in 2024? What do you want to carry with you into ...