The raw truth

Every journey begins with a single step, yet where it leads depends upon the choices we make along the way. In the past two decades, I’ve continually evolved my relationship with food in order to eat sustainably, simply, and in harmony with nature while enjoying a diversity of flavors and maintaining a sublime level of health. Sustainable living is more than just electric cars and solar panels. Every item we buy has some impact on the global ecology based on how many resources it takes to get from farm to market. Seventy percent of the world’s transportation is used to move or obtain food. People used to farm at home and produce a large amount of their own food. In the 1950s, more than 50 percent of people grew some portion of their food in their backyards. By 1980, less than 5 percent grew their own food and by 2010, it’s less than 1 percent. Having a personal interaction with our food helps custom-design the food for our particular needs. A healthy environment grows healthy food, which in turn creates a healthy person.