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Food As Medicine
Overview
Western and Indigenous practices intertwine in efforts to utilize food as medicine to improve food sovereignty, source local food products, and improve health outcomes. The Two-Eyed Seeing approach, articulated by Mi’kmaw Elder Albert Marshall, offers an illustrative model for leveraging both knowledge paradigms for the greater good. Our project links the Two-Eyed Seeing approach to understand aspects of food systems, holistic health promotion, and overall resilience to realize cultural practice, personal and community health, and opportunities for new food markets. Through this series of panel discussions on food and insurance access, cultural practices, business approaches, and food systems connections, we will talk with farmers and food system stakeholders across Indigenous and western settler perspectives to learn more about this intersection and the important work going on in these spaces.
Cultural Practices
In this conversation, we discuss how traditional practices and mental health are intertwined with food as medicine across communities.
Contact information for participants on this panel:
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Judy Walden |
George Washington University |
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Kelly Dundon |
Chenal Family Therapy/Self-employed |
Food Systems Connections
In this conversation, we discuss how food systems stakeholders involved in all sectors - from cultivation and harvesting to conservation and stewardship – are contributing to both Indigenous and western food as medicine initiatives.
Contact information for participants on this panel:
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Courtney Long |
ISU Extension & AgMRC |
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Spring Alaska Schreiner |
Sakari Farms |
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Erin Meyer |
Basils Harvest |
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Sommer Sibilly-Brown |
Good Food VI |
Food and Insurance Access
In this conversation, we discuss how access to nutritious food intersects with healthcare coverage and its impact on lived experiences and holistic health outcomes.
Contact information for participants on this panel:
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Valerie Segrest |
Tahoma Peak Solutions |
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Jenn Reynolds |
Nourish |
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Lyndi Buckingham-Schutt, RDN LDN |
Iowa State University |
Business Approaches to Food As Medicine
In this conversation, we discuss how agritourism, farming practices, and community food hubs integrate cultural traditions and consumer preferences in food as medicine.
Link from chat: Food as Medicine and Agritourism
Contact information for participants on this panel:
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Trevor Lane |
Washington State University |
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Brandon & Lauren Breaux |
Cockeyed Farms |
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Debbie Thorgren Turner |
Lost River Market & Deli |
