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Dane and his hometown Austin, TX, USA 
I am Dane and I am the person you see as SoilConnection. If you have seen my videos, then you know how passionate I am about you growing your own food, connecting with nature, and ultimately living a healthy lifestyle.
I grew up outside of Austin, Texas. It was there in central Texas that I was introduced to health early in life because a close family member had many health conditions. Suffering from chronic pain after a herniated disc, he continually searched for a means to get get rid of the chronic pain and become healthy again. He tried every supplement, saw MDs, DOs, acupuncturists, naturopaths, and massage therapists. While each in its own way helped him to cope with the pain, his condition never got better, but over time grew much worse. Meanwhile, we as a family did religiously what we were told was “healthy”; that is, we ate moderately “healthy” and stayed active by exercising and working out with weights. But we really had no clue as to what “healthy” really meant! And as a family, we still ate a lot of conventional and processed foods thinking they were not so bad.
When I was a teenager, I started learning about the importance of organic and raw foods. At some point, we cut out most conventional junk food, dairy, and hormone-laden meats, and started cooking with organic ingredients. When I did this, I knew that I felt better. All of us were less bloated and inflamed. But, in all honesty, my family was not well off and I was a teenager with little money, so I started learning how to grow my own food.
The fact that I was feeling better physically and mentally is what really started my obsession with gardening and learning about the human body. I loved learning about gardening and it has been a consistent practice that I have been pursuing for over 15 years now.
I finally found the solutions to healing my family member through corrective diet, proper fasting, and minerals that I found helped me be my best self.
Since I started this journey, I have learned so much on health, gardening, and self-reliance. It all connects back to nature.
I now fully comprehend what it means to provide for oneself and take positive actions which are incredibly liberating, healing, and fun! It is so satisfying to be able to pick a strawberry that you planted, or watch a pineapple ripen in your front yard.
Thus, I decided to help teach others how to do what I do, and to show a different perspective on life because I believe that the more people who take responsibility for the world we live in, the faster we can make it better. We are all connected and, therefore, must bring each other up and help each other. The current model at work in the world clearly does not help foster health, liberty, and happiness. I fully believe; together we truly can do anything!