Healthy Eating
Happy 2021 everyone. May the new year bring health and happiness, abundance and harmony and an ever stronger sense of community.
January is typically a time for resolutions and being healthier is almost always at the top of the list. Healthy eating is a great start to improved well-being. As simple as that sounds, that isn’t always easy.
For decades we’ve built a food system dominated by unhealthy processed food laden with sugars and chemicals. You can draw a straight line between them and increased rates of diabetes, heart disease and more. All you have to do is walk the aisles of any supermarket to know that is true.
Maybe that’s why so many people start the new year vowing to embrace healthy eating each January only to fizzle out by March. It’s hard. It takes a little work. That realization is actually one of the things that first set me on the path that ultimately led to the birth of Tabula Rasa Farms.
As the daughter of an Oklahoma cattleman, I saw firsthand how the big ag model of feedlots and fast fattening to deliver low-cost beef at a large scale caused great harm to our local farmers, the land, the animals and our very health.
Along the way I learned this truth, sustained healthy eating starts with understanding that where our food comes from matters. How we raise and nurture the animals that give us meat has a big impact on their health and ours, not to mention the health of the land. It’s foundational to clean, healthy eating. Understanding that process became my passion and sharing that passion became Tabula Rasa Farms.
If your New Year’s resolution is to lead a healthier life, start with nutrient-dense clean food from farmers you can trust. Do your homework. Visit farmers’ markets. Ask for referrals. It’s definitely worth your time. When you choose a proactive path that supports buying local, sustainably grown food you are not only fostering a healthier you, you are helping support the growing movement of regenerative agriculture and the humane treatment of animals.
Food grown naturally may cost a little more to produce but we owe it to ourselves, the animals and the planet.
Healthy Eating
Happy 2021 everyone. May the new year bring health and happiness, abundance and harmony and an ever stronger sense of community.
January is typically a time for resolutions and being healthier is almost always at the top of the list. Healthy eating is a great start to improved well-being. As simple as that sounds, that isn’t always easy.
For decades we’ve built a food system dominated by unhealthy processed food laden with sugars and chemicals. You can draw a straight line between them and increased rates of diabetes, heart disease and more. All you have to do is walk the aisles of any supermarket to know that is true.
Maybe that’s why so many people start the new year vowing to embrace healthy eating each January only to fizzle out by March. It’s hard. It takes a little work. That realization is actually one of the things that first set me on the path that ultimately led to the birth of Tabula Rasa Farms.
As the daughter of an Oklahoma cattleman, I saw firsthand how the big ag model of feedlots and fast fattening to deliver low-cost beef at a large scale caused great harm to our local farmers, the land, the animals and our very health.
Along the way I learned this truth, sustained healthy eating starts with understanding that where our food comes from matters. How we raise and nurture the animals that give us meat has a big impact on their health and ours, not to mention the health of the land. It’s foundational to clean, healthy eating. Understanding that process became my passion and sharing that passion became Tabula Rasa Farms.
If your New Year’s resolution is to lead a healthier life, start with nutrient-dense clean food from farmers you can trust. Do your homework. Visit farmers’ markets. Ask for referrals. It’s definitely worth your time. When you choose a proactive path that supports buying local, sustainably grown food you are not only fostering a healthier you, you are helping support the growing movement of regenerative agriculture and the humane treatment of animals.
