Living the Intense Dream

Well, I suppose I should have clarified this by now!

The “dream” is to be fully competent in not only how to provide my own nourishment, but how I can aid others in providing their own nourishment as well. I just finished garnering a couple degrees and qualifications through 7 years of higher education (Registered Dietitian-eligible as of May 2008) and I am presumably fit to become a “nutrition expert” (American Dietetic Association-dubbed). Shannon Hayes (www.grassfedcooking.com), Michael Pollan (www.michaelpollan.com), and a few others have tempted me to think otherwise. Why? Prior to 2 weeks ago, I had absolutely NO idea how mine or anyone else’s nourishment (i.e. food) was produced.

So here I sit at Sap Bush Hollow farm (www.sapbush.com) in upstate NY on the first leg of my journey (leg #2 = sustainable vegetable farming) - learning how meat gets to our plates. The beautiful thing about Sap Bush is that the livestock (sheep, laying hens, one dairy cow for us ( “Trill”), beef cattle, broiler chickens, and swine) are done truly sustainably, ultra-humanely, and symbiotically. Shoot, I wouldn’t have it any other way! I’ll focus on each animal and how it gets to us (sustainably) in the future but onward for now.

So, the goal of this blog is to reveal to anyone who may stop in to read, the bizarre paradox of a “nutrition expert” knowing zilch about real (real food is whole food produced in a sustainable manner that benefits the grower, the consumer, and the earth) food production.

So…here goes and I hope you’ll dig the updates on my world being quite rocked.

Synergistically,

Andy