Tag Archives: organic farming

Kate Daigle

A Woman’s Story of Healing an Eating Disorder by Growing Her Own Food

Wisdom Tips for Overcoming Eating Disorders and the Healing Power of Growing Your Own Food You often hear me speak about the joy of food. The love, healing, and wellness it brings to our lives. What you don’t often hear me refer to are the self image issues and pain that many have created around food. Have you ever felt not skinny enough? Not good enough? Do you carry around a secret shame related to food? Do you hide your eating habits? Binge? Purge? If you…

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Chef Daniel Ritz Carlton

Ritz Carlton Chef Partners with Organic Farming Grandpa!

Learn how to create a perfect gluten free wellness feast from a Ritz Carlton Chef and his sidekick Farmer Starkey. Organic that will forever change your mind about healing foods. “The right food and the right chef can bring about the right health … and suddenly we live forever!” The executive chef at the Ritz Carlton, Dove Mountain announces with such passion that I began believing in forever too. Introducing Daniel Schmidt, known as the General of his kitchen for his hard driving style. Look a…

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Ritz Carlton Inspired Gluten Free Feast

Chef Daniel at the Ritz Carlton Dove Mountain creates a gluten free wellness feast that will inspire your next dinner party. And he gave us the recipes! If you ever thought losing the gluten would mean sacrifice, you are about to be forever changed. Welcome to true farm to table decadence with a focus on organic wellness. Recall our dear Farmer Starkey? The loving abundance from his farm is the spark that ignited this meal.  For our first course, I was served a Tepary bean soup…

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Jan Swinton, Global Volunteer Returns Home

Global Volunteer Returns Home: Providing healthy food to rural communities

In Fairfield, Iowa resides a global volunteer with the heart of a caregiver and a mind of an electrical engineer. Introducing Jan Swinton, area celebrity, local food advocate, and natural farming networker extraordinaire. Jan’s path has spanned the globe. She is a passionate human rights participant and absolutely walks her talk. Just after college, Jan found a new calling. Her path led her from Iowa to wartime Uganda. At the time when many young people are testing the waters as newly independent adults, Jan was…

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Mongolia organic explorer

Mongolia, Meditation, and the Heart of an Explorer

How meditation and organic food inspired a young woman’s life in Mongolia .  The heart of our exploration. Throughout my life I would often imagine the type of school my future children would attend. In my vision, I would see this beautiful place of meditation, organic food, yoga, love, and brilliant education. A promotion of their essence and highest achievement based on all that they are. Not imaging that it existed, I also thought I would have to create such a bounty of learning. So imagine my…

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