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Using Plums For Skincare + Why Fruit Orchards Are Important + Spencer Pratt Goes Activist with Allison Taylor (founder of Le Prunier)

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Allison says dried plum has more antioxidants than kale, blueberries, and spinach.

1. Inside and Outside with Jessica Murnane focuses on Allison Taylor’s plum-based skincare brand, Le Prunier, and the role of nature in her life. 2. Jessica Murnane is the host, and Allison Taylor is a co-founder of Le Prunier with her sisters, which matters because the brand story comes from their family farm. 3. The episode asks how a fourth-generation fruit-growing family turned plum by-products into skincare and what that origin says about nature, branding, and business. 4. Jessica starts with her own background as an author and horticultural therapy practitioner and says her company Basker helps people use nature and gardening for health, creativity, and social well-being. 5. She offers a $50 discount on ebooks and sessions through baskergardens.com with the code GROW until December 1st. 6. Allison says she was raised on a fourth-generation family farm in Northern California and remembers riding horses with her grandfather through walnut trees. 7. She describes learning to saddle a horse in the morning after breakfast and calls that setting her favorite childhood memory. 8. Jessica connects Allison’s horse story to equine therapy and says horses can be a tool for mental health and self-knowledge. 9. Allison says she now lives in Tribeca, New York, with her husband, after previously living in New York right after college. 10. She says she still travels back to California and makes trips to upstate New York to stay connected to nature. 11. Jessica introduces the Orchard Project in the UK, describing it as a national charity dedicated to community orchards for climate, food, and community benefits. 12. Allison recalls a public middle school with a greenhouse, salad-bar Fridays, and edible flowers that she still remembers vividly. 13. She says that experience shaped how she thinks about food literacy and garden education for city kids. 14. Allison explains that her father moved the family farm toward organic dried plums in the 1980s and that the family later exported much of its crop overseas. 15. She says her sisters and father spent years in Asia and Europe learning how dried plum was viewed there as a beauty food with digestion benefits. 16. Allison says her older sister first had the idea to upcycle plum seeds and cold-press them into plum beauty oil. 17. She says the brand stayed self-funded, with the sisters doing customer service, fulfillment, and operations before a viral Chrissy Teigen moment in November 2020 helped them pay off a loan. 18. Allison and Jessica keep the tone conversational, with the discussion moving from farming history to skincare formulation and founder life. 19. Listeners who like founder stories, skincare formulation, and farm-to-brand businesses will get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners looking for a hard news format or a quick product review may skip it.

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