As we sow, so shall we reap. This is especially true when it comes to healthy eating. When we take a “hands on” approach to how we nourish our bodies, and help our children to do the same, our lives derive long term benefits. This week, listen in on our “health harvesting” conversations with Lisa Silverman of Five Seasons Cooking School, Christine Slader of the Yarmouth Community Garden, Craig Haims of the REAL School/Americorps and Ken Morse of the Maine Farm to School Network.
Guests
Lisa Silverman
Lisa Silverman, is a Whole Foods Chef, Breath Worker and Shiatsu practitioner, and Founder of Five Seasons Cooking School. Lisa has been a Whole Foods chef since 1990 when she studied at the Kushi Institute in Becket, MA and at the International Macrobiotic Institute in Kiental Switzerland.
She has been a certified breathworker from the International Breathwork Institute since 1994. She graduated from the Power of Breath Institute’s 2 year certification program in 2004. Since then she has been assisting trainings at POBI in Spofford and in Ireland, teaching classes and breath intros and seeing private clients in Portland, Maine where she lives. Lisa is a Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor and has been the Co-director of Kindred Spirits Camp at Rowe Camp and Conference Center for four years.
Christine ThorneSlader
Our second featured guest is Christine ThorneSlader of Yarmouth Community Garden. Christine has been living in Yarmouth since she was a little girl and has been gardening her whole life. She teaches preschool, educates young people at the Yarmouth Community Garden where she is the coordinator of the Children’s Garden and has her own small garden business. She is currently renovating a home by the Royall River with the help of her husband, her two grown sons and a village of helpers.
Craig Haims
Craig Haims, Co-founder of the REAL School/Americorps, is a longtime Alternative Educator who works at the REAL School on Macworth Island in Southern Maine. The REAL Lunch Program is an on-going service-learning project which trains REAL School students to grow and harvest vegetables for use in the REAL School’s school lunch program. Our REAL Lunch students also prepare lunch daily for 60 with an emphasis on preparing meals that are healthy, and sustainable.
Currently, he is the Program Director of the REAL School/ AmeriCorps Service -Learning Program. He oversees a crew of AmeriCorps Members who work with REAL School students to design and implement active, differentiated and on-going service-learning projects.
Ken Morse
Ken Morse is the coordinator of Maine Farm to School Network. He grew up and worked on a family apple orchard in Waterford, Maine which produced about 60,000 bushels a year. Ever since his 20s, Ken has been engaged in community organizing, mostly around food. For years, he helped organize food co-ops, and worked at FedcoWarehouse helping to distribute food around the state. More recently Ken has directed Healthy Oxford Hills, a community health coalition in western Maine. For 5 years, he’s been the Maine Rep to the National Farm to School Network, and helped organize the Maine Farm to School Work Group which last year gave birth to the Maine Farm to School Network, which Ken coordinates. He is passionately devoted to recreating local and regional food systems, and serves on the Leadership Team of Farm to Institution in New England and as Coordinator of the Maine Network of Community Food Councils.
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