Why I want to be a Nutritional Therapist and Farmer.

Why do I want to be a Nutritional Therapist and Farmer?

Because the fullness of being human cannot be expressed with out the fullness of nutrients, and the fullness of nutrients cannot be brought forth with out care for the soil. We’ve lost our ability to see creation as something sacred. We say we love the mountains, the rivers and trees, but these are words we only speak. We take photos to capture the beauty but never arrive at truly understanding our deep connectedness with what is not just one thing, soil simplified and defined as “dirt”, when in reality soil is life, and soil is death, the perfect way to reconcile those two things, which feel so distant from one another. When we began hiding from death, putting up walls between us and the slaughter of animals, forgetting that it was necessary for our living, we disconnected completely so that we didn’t have to deal with it’s weight. We simplified everything and left it in the hands of a few men, people who don’t know how to look past their greed and feed the world in a way that brings vitality to every person’s body. Our food system is made of money, it seems it really does grow on trees.

Why do I want to be a Nutritional Therapist and Farmer?

Because I’ve lost family members to Cancer and Heart Disease, which could have been prevented, had we known how to eat with intention. People tell me they don’t have the time for this way of life. But I don’t have time for disease, which steals life away. I’ve watched disease steal life away from everyone around me, including myself. I’m not scared of death, for we all must pass over that threshold, but we’ve been given this space in time to live out on earth and we are doing it in the worst way possible. We are degrading everything. Making it un-inhabitable. You cannot say you want to feed the poor and also buy food from monoculture, pesticide laced farming, which perpetuates poverty. We’ve lost the ability to do radical accounting, we only see things in dollar signs, who will account for the acidifying of our oceans or the dead soil they continue to rape with corn and soy? I know that this food and this pollution killed my family members before their time. And I know it is sucking the life out of everything.

Why do I want to be a Nutritional Therapist and Farmer?

Cause this is ridiculous. We no longer know what it feels like to be human. We are a sick and dying generation. I say, “who wants help” and everyone comes running. We work long de-humanizing jobs under florescent lights, eat packaged food that’s more traveled than we are and fill our bodies with toxins. At this moment in time, we are overpopulated: 99.3% of Americans eat food, and only .7% are farming, and most of that is ruled by Monsanto. There’s no need to worry about overpopulation, though, it’s projected that if we keep eating this way and destroying our soils we’ll all be infertile by 2050 anyway. That’s the direction we are going.

This is why I want to be a Nutritional Therapist and a Farmer.

Someone has to do it. We need to turn that .7% into something larger with small, locally minded farms. We need to bring the vitality back into our bodies.