362 — What 100 Chickens Taught Me About Healing With Daniel Firth Griffith

Sep 9, 2025

Daniel Firth Griffith, a philosopher, farmer, and award-winning author, shares his journey of healing through farming and storytelling. He discusses how chickens became a surprising remedy for his health crisis. The power of vegetables like potatoes and carrots is explored as holistic treatments. Griffith delves into the role of myths in modern culture and emphasizes the connection between storytelling, identity, and nature. He also addresses the importance of reconnecting with the earth and the divine feminine in mythology.

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Near-Death Health Struggle

Daniel described losing basic bodily functions and living on IVs during his worst health crisis with collapsing bone sockets and many surgeries.
He spent years in hospitals learning to walk again before discovering agriculture as medicine.

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Healing Began With 100 Chickens

Daniel was bedridden with degenerative bone disease until his mother suggested they buy 100 chickens as an experiment.
Raising chickens and eating local raw living food began his recovery and led to running a 400-acre regenerative farm.

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What do you do in a health crisis when all of the allopathic experts you’ve seen have no clue how to heal you?

When faced with extreme health problems and no answers, philosopher, farmer and award-winning author Daniel Firth Griffith took his Mom’s advice — chickens — and became a living example of the many benefits active, holistic approaches provide.

Daniel describes how his wellness transformation went hand-in-hand with a love for farming and storytelling and explains why, in its truest form, myth is a silence with legs, this week on Spirit Gym.

Learn more about Daniel’s work as a storyteller and horse-drawn woodwright at his website, Substack and on social media via Instagram. Check out his growing number of books and writings on his writing/books page or on Amazon (link below). Listen to his Unshod podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get them.

Timestamps

8:15 Could chickens be an effective treatment for degenerative bone disease?

12:35 Have you really tasted a potato?

20:45 Humans are constantly trying to be rooted not unlike a carrot or potato.

31:06 Myth as defined by Daniel.

48:33 The concept of Creator extends far beyond Native American cultures.

55:13 Myth emerges from our bodies.

1:14:20 Sacred harvests with blood and oxygen.

1:22:30 “How do we keep that oral living ecotone alive in a bastardized medium known as the written word?”

1:29:30 The divine feminine.

1:41:21 “Myth provides us a silence with legs.”

1:47:34 Are you connected or disconnected from the world?

1:55:56 A living myth of foraging.

2:05:51 The differences between world sense and world view.

2:14:49 An uncomfortable, paradoxical connection.

2:23:31 The chemical makeup of an animal that doesn’t give you its consent to eat it changes radically and for the worse.

2:27:35 “Mythology presents a paradox of being, because it says be here, but the here is nowhere… it's everywhere.”

2:38:31 Are you a non-consensus human?

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The Plain of Pillars by Daniel Firth Griffith

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