food as ancestor.

what's been grown, eaten and digested has made us.

Hi friends,

As the holy days approach, and food becomes a part of our lives possibly more than ever, I wanted to offer a short series that is supportive in digging a little deeper into our food stories. Why do we always make this? Why do we eat that? What’s the story of the women, the men, the community that gathered around a particular dish? What are the layers of earth that has supported the seeding, the watering, the prayers, the watering of a particular food?

The 4 part series will involve pdf workbooks, videos, and lots of prompts to engage you in your own food stories and invite you to write/tell them and pass them on.

Food holds our history. Each seed is a mother that grows an entire life. Each recipe holds the prayer of that seed, for generations. It holds the prayers and stories of hunger, of celebration, of trauma, of deities, of the movement of people and plants, and more than anything it tells the stories of the land — what grows is a direct expression of the land. You won’t believe how blow my mind was one I found out the story behind “traditional” polenta in Piedmont region of Italy— and how the colonization of Mesoamerica, corn, and indentured land workers of the north right around the 1490s are connected.

How can we can lean a little deeper into the land that has generously and lovingly supported the seeds that have fed us, and made us? How can we find deeper joy and and connection to making food and eating together?

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