Hey, it’s Thursday! Instead of doing a #thriftythursday post about thrift store finds, like I’ve often done on Thursdays lately, I’m doing a #thrivingthursday post.

I got to go to the annual Weston A. Price Foundation Conference last week in Salt Lake City, Utah! The photo above shows one of the marvelously nourishing delicious dinners I got to enjoy while there. That’s roasted bison with divine gravy, salad with a dressing, roasted root veggies (hiding behind the bread), sourdough bread with raw milk butter, and kombucha. Then dessert was butterscotch budino topped with caramel sauce. Normally I eat keto but with such a gourmet, nutrient dense food opportunity, I indulged in a lot more carbs than I usually do.

This conference was a dream come true for sure! Sally Fallon Morrell, the founder of the WAPF, and Queen of Butter, was there. She gave four presentations: Nourishing Broth, Nourishing Diet Part 1 and Part 2, and Bringing Up Baby. She is known as the Queen of Butter, and I’ve been wanting her to come to Utah for since 2012, as shown by my blog over here. Sally is one of my heroes. I blogged about her as one of my Mothers for the Day in May over here. She is a great example of a woman who has followed the seasons of a woman’s life. She got a Stanford college education to prepare for a career, got married at some point, delayed a career outside of the home for a career of full-time motherhood, then as her children left the nest, she devoted her energy to outside the home. She founded and has led the Weston A. Price Foundation, spreading the truths of nourishing traditions (ancestral foods, farming, and the healing arts) for the past 25 years.

It was her teachings that led me, as a young mom, to quit being vegan/vegetarian. I learned about her from Diane Hopkins’ homeschooling newsletter. In one of her newsletters, Diane explained that she was no longer vegan. She said that her veganism caused her children tooth decay because she was vegan when she was pregnant with them, and then fed them a vegan diet when they were young children. She cited the Weston A. Price Foundation’s nutritional principles that include the importance of animal products. When she stopped being vegan, their teeth improved. My midwife also told me to stop being vegetarian, saying that women who keep having more and more babies as vegetarians have more sickly children the more children they have. I was severely anemic. She told me I needed to eat meat. So with those two witnesses, I started eating meat, in 2001. I believe that’s why my three younger children, who I had after this change, don’t have allergies like some of my older ones.

I also believe that’s why my youngest child has such a beautiful round head and great looks. He’s the baby in the header on the top of this website. He’s 16 years old now and such a cutie! All my children are great-looking, in my not so humble opinion, LOL, but he probably has the roundest head of all 7 of them, which as Sally teaches, is a sign of good maternal nutrition in pregnancy.

I also gave up drinking soy milk, because of what Sally teaches, completely before I had him whereas with most of the others I drank it occasionally and fed a lot of it to my children. Someone I know was vegan the same time I was in our early mothering years. We both gave up veganism eventually. Even after giving up veganism, however, she continued feeding her family soy milk, even after her last pregnancy. Her baby with that pregnancy has a narrow face and tons of allergies. This is anecdotal and I know I have no way of proving these results as to whether or not diet determined them. Yet I believe it’s all connected to diet. So I’m grateful to Sally Fallon. She saved my health and my children’s health. So, dear children of mine, you can thank Sally that in my later mothering years you all got to eat meat, butter, and cheese, and no more tofu or fake milk! They were starving for meat snd cheese and would sneak them at family gatherings, until I fully embraced WAPF principles and started buying animal products and serving them.

I saw Sally within 5 minutes of walking into the event, on the second floor of the SLC Hyatt Regency Hotel. She was talking to Tom Cowan, MD, someone else I enjoy learning from. The photo above shows the two of them talking when I saw them, the Friday morning of the conference. They are co-authors, having written a handful of books together.

I also saw Holistic Hilda, shown above, the host of the WAPF podcast, called Wise Traditions. I’ve blogged about her here and have shared a bunch of her podcasts here. She is just as darling in person as she is on the podcast!

For the Saturday night banquet, to celebrate the 25th, Silver Anniversary of the WAPF, she dressed up in a silver sequined dress, a white cowgirl hat, and white cowgirl boots. We were all encouraged to wear something silver to help celebrate 25 years! I managed to rustle up a silver and pearl necklace I got years ago. Usually I wear gold.

So getting into fangirl mode with these three holistic celeb sightings was a fabulous way to kick off my conference experience! I introduced myself to Hilda and thanked her for her work. I held off on meeting Sally until the next day, when I found her not talking to anyone after one of her classes.

She was friendly and willing to talk to anyone who approached her. She autographed my Nourishing Traditions for Children cookbook!

So many interesting natural-health promoting products abounded at the conference. See the stickers above, and below is a T-shirt promoting crunchy mom values. I love it!

John Stockton, host of the Ultimate Assist podcast, and former NBA player of the Utah Jazz, interviewed Sally a week before the conference. You can listen to that here to get a one-hour summary of the Weston A. Price diet that the WAPF promotes.

He says that he and his family drink raw milk. He promised that and after the podcast interview ended, he was going to buy Sally’s Nourishing Traditions book. I’d forgotten that John is a crunchy guy. I do remember hearing that during the plandemic he refused to get the jab, so this makes sense.

The conference organizers had the consulting chef of WAPF, Yolanda Hawthorne, supervise the meals. She worked with the hotel chef and kitchen staff to prepare all the food served. Local natural food sources provided the food. So a huge thank you to Redmond Farms for Real Salt and Raw Milk, Green Goddess for the ferments, Han’s for the kombucha, What the Beat for kvass, Loncho’s Larder for lard, One Degree for sprouted oats and flour, hollow Tree Honey for honey, Utah Natural Meat, Leavity SLC sourdough bread, Sunnyside Up Meat, Pleasant Pastures grassfed butter, Old Home Place turkey, Amos Miller Organic Farm beef sausage, Pure Indian Foods Ghee, Northstar Bison, Amos Miller Organic Farm cream cheese, Gardens of Grace dates and almonds, Wild for Salmon smoked salmon, Midwest Mermaid Muse tea, Rich Nuts, Devin’s Good Gut Yogurt. Whew! It was all scrumptious! My first time eating liver pate, and it was good!

Here is the Friday dinner menu and the quantities of food the organizers obtained to create the fabulous meals. A huge thanks to Paul Frank for sourcing the food. This is the best food you could eat anywhere! Better than any high-end restaurant! So thank you again, Yolanda, Paul, the hotel chef and staff, and all the other WAPF people.

It was fabulous to see people I’ve only ever heard from before: Sally of course, Hilda, Sandrine Perez, of nourishingourchildren.org, Tom Cowan, Nina Teicholz, and Catherine Austin Fitts of solari.com, among others.

I learned so much from this conference! I’ll be sharing what I learned in the next few weeks.

Here are some of Tom’s books below.

Below is the cool sturdy bag that each participant received along with the conference program, and some of the free vendor samples I received. Each banquet attendee also got a glass with the WAPF 25 years anniversary logo. At the banquet we did a kombucha toast with the glass.

Here is Sally’s presentation which I was privileged to watch. It was split into two sessions, Part 1 and Part 2. I’ve heard her do it in YouTube more than once. I wanted to see her do it in person and see if she added new stuff and she did. I thoroughly enjoyed both parts.

You can get the slides for Sally’s presentations from her blog here. So much food for thought, pun intended!

My very favorite talk was by Dr. Samantha Bailey, a medical doctor from New Zealand. She talked about “Secrets of a Staged Pandemic” on Friday night. I remember hearing her in YouTube during the plandemic. She is shown in the photo below.

It was so amazing! Dr. Bailey and her husband, Dr. Mark Bailey, live on a small farm in NZ with their three sons. They look like teenagers! They’ve got to be each in their 40s though as the bios in the conference program say that they have each practiced medicine for 20 years. Both of them received the Mary Enig Integrity in Science Award from the WAPF at the Saturday night banquet. I just have to say, Dr. Sam looked so elegant in her evening gown that night. It was a stunning, sparkly orangeish, pinkish dress. The two Dr. Baileys are shown below with Sally after receiving the award at the banquet. It was a complete surprise to both of them.

Dr. Sam looks like a model or beauty pageant winner. I’d love to visit with her in person and ask her a ton of questions. They are some of the few medical doctors who have stood for truth about the jab of five years ago. I remember watching her first videos back then, but then life happened, I moved from AZ to UT, and I forgot I had discovered her. So this conference was a great reacquaintance with her. You can watch her video about virology below.

Both Dr. Baileys state that viruses are not what makes us sick. They say that no virus has ever been isolated, either in a lab or in nature. Because of these stances of not taking the jab and not promoting germ theory, Dr. Sam has endured a lot of persecution and trials.

It was a miracle that she and her husband were even able to get from NZ to SLC for this conference, after being invited by Sally to come speak. I’m grateful for their courage in sharing the truth about illness and health with all their work.

Dr. Tom Cowan, Dr. Mark Bailey, his wife, Dr. Sam Bailey, and Dr. Andy Kaufman are shown above, left to right. They all claim that no virus has ever been isolated. Each has a medical doctor degree, and each has been disappointed with they way mainstream medicine has gone. This was the first time that the four met in person. The Fantastic Four! They call themselves virus deniers. They did a Q & A panel to answer questions. I didn’t think of any questions to ask until later. If I had been thinking more I would have come up with a question to ask them in their session but alas I was not feeling super thinky, I was just taking things in, so I just watched other people ask questions.

This video above features Dr. Sam Bailey interviewing Sally. You can see Dr. Bailey’s YouTube channel here. She started it in 2020, and now has over 20 million views and over 350K subscribers. Wow!

Then Dr. Sam Bailey’s website is here. She and her husband have a substack for paying subscribers here.

I’m so thrilled that I could attend this year! I’ve been wanting to go for a long time, but this year, with it being in my home state of Utah, it was finally within my reach. I drove to it back and forth every day from home. I met up with my friend/third cousin KeeNan at the meals and swapped notes about the classes we attended. I got to meet a lot of new people. I even met someone who reads my blog! Shout out to Carrie S. of Kaysville UT! It was so wonderful! As I left the conference on the last day, my heart felt so happy and fulfilled. It was truly a magical experience!

The last day of the conference involved a tour of some farms: Utah Natural Meat in West Jordan UT, Redmond Farms‘ real salt mine in Redmond UT, and Sunnyside Up Pastures Farm in Centerfield UT. I didn’t go on the tour but hope to arrange a tour on my own since I live within an easy day’s drive to all of these places. One of my Veggie Gal girlfriends arranged a tour of the Redmond Farms salt mine two years ago.

I’m excited to keep learning from all these resources and I hope you join me on the journey! You can watch the video that Kelly the Kitchen Kop did of the tour, below. I saw her at the conference and said “Hi, you’re Kelly the Kitchen Kop!” because I’m on her email newsletter list and recognized her. Then she said my name which surprised me. I thought, “What, she knows my name?! Does she remember me from some email questions I’ve sent her?” but now I realize, oh she was just reading my name badge, LOL. The wave of traffic moved on so I didn’t have time to talk to her more.

If you want to get all the recordings of the conference, you can go here.

Free talks of the previous years’ conference are over here as well, look on the right hand side.

Please check back on my blog in the next few weeks as I blog about the different presenters that I haven’t even mentioned yet. This is a whole universe of new things to learn!

I hope to go to next year’s conference, in Washington DC, October 16-18, 2026. Maybe I’ll see you there!

Happy learning and living! May we all thrive not just on Thursday, but every day! I invite you to join the WAPF for only $40 for a year membership to help you on your wellness journey.

Here’s what you get for $40:

• Our quarterly journal: Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts
• A members-only Facebook group
• Our annual Shopping Guide
• Our main dietary guidelines brochure and twelve informative trifold flyers
• Timely email information and action alerts
• Quarterly members-only zoom meeting on various topics with WAPF experts
• Consult with Pete Kennedy on state laws, regulations and policies including food freedom legislation and issues regarding consumer access to raw milk, cottage foods and on-farm meat and poultry processing.

Totally worth it for only $40! What a deal!

Join here! or you can also join by calling WAPF at (202) 363-4394

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