To Be Rooted is…

We live in a world of contrasts. The world that encompasses our relationship with food is no different. While many struggle to feed themselves and their family, others struggle to maintain a healthy relationship with food that isn’t based on eating more than they need or wasting more than they can consume. Sometimes both unhealthy factors coexist simultaneously. In short, we live in a world that often fosters unhealthy relationships with food, the planet, and the people we rely on to feed and nourish our bodies. 

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Food has the power to destroy or restore. Our relationship to food and the systems and practices that bring it into our lives and our bodies has the capacity to break down or build up both our bodies and communities. This is a space to remember and engage with the reality that we are not apart from nature but a critical and integral part of it. Becoming more intentional about our food choices has the ability to bring more life to our bodies and joy to our lives and the lives of others. Actively engaging in the systems that bring it to our tables brings life to our neighbors and joy to our neighborhoods. 

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This is a garden for the passionate expert and the curious novice. This room will support you in your journey of restoring your personal relationship with food and discovering and sustaining the joy that comes with having a healthy relationship with it. This is the space to explore and deepen your roots in the soil of what’s good and restorative. It will help you understand where our food comes from and what it does for our bodies and the body of humanity when we become active participants rather than passive consumers of what (and who) feeds us. 

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Whether you want to learn to appreciate the ways food has the potential to fuel your body or your soul, this room will help you develop and use the tools to do both. If you want to get dirty (literally) or support those who do in service of healing and sustaining a healthy body and healthy food system, this is the room–or garden–for you.

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We will explore our individual and collective “why's” behind our  challenges with eating well, provide support and illuminate our power to overcome them, and plant tomatoes, carrots, and whatever else we can…or at least build meaningful relationships with those who do!

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We will talk about the science of nutrition as well as the garden and the practical practice of supporting the health of your body and your community through food. We will discuss the politics and systems that feed the industrial food system and the benefits and practical approaches to choosing to feed the farmers and the planet instead. Most of all, we will build community around the healing power of food as medicine for our body, soul, and global community.