I think I’m starting to write a PhD dissertation posing as a book tour stomp speech. My emerging platform is 50/50/500 from the research for my book, Blessing the Hands that Feed Us, summarized in a sentence in my TEDxSeattle talk. The assertion is that …
I’m now exploring the “local food” to “relational eating” shift. Local food is a thing, albeit a beautiful thing. Relational eating is connecting to the life of your community through food – and your community includes farmers AND farms and soils and forests and microorganisms …
I already get the question: “Do you still ‘do it’”? They mean 10-mile eating. Like in the old days: “Do you still live on under $1000 a month”? Well, no to both. But what’s changed since B10MD (before 10-mile diet) is what i think is …
French women, they day, stay thin because they only eat 50% of what we eat. A slither rather than a slice. A pat instead of a slather. Frugalistas long ago discovered the 50% solution. Use half until you reach just enough. Half the shampoo. Half …
Folks, I just made up this acronym for wise food choices. OWL. Organic, Whole, Local. I think it’s a winner. You? To elaborate… Think OWL for wise food choices A little boy asked his dad how the lights go on. He got a lecture on …
With ever more passion I invite us all to consider ourselves healers of our food systems, drawing our sources of nourishment closer to home (and away from industrial, processed anywhere food) through buying, cooking and eating local foods, advocating for turning empty lots and patchy …
Last night I had the strangest dream, I never dreamed before. Strange because it was so serious. So reasoned. So not like other dreams where I panic because I didn’t study for the test or because I find my boyfriend romancing my best friend. No, …
I had the joy, privilege and challenge of speaking via webcast to an evolutionary wisdom group Craig Hamilton hosts. I start with the environmental and social constraints of this moment, with how the money and financial systems sit in and fight against these realities and then …
As soon as I started my 10-mile diet I became a criminal. No, not local marijuana (which now is legal in Washington). Local milk. Selling milk to your neighbor from your cow or goat is against the law. I’m thinking about it today because the …
The food systems that feed us – natural and national – are like the glass pieces in a kaleidoscope. I turn my head this way and that, trying for a whole picture. I think I’m beginning to see it, but still, as Paul in the …