Olivia Myers, RDN, LD founded Lowcountry Street Grocery’s (LSG) GroceryRx program in 2017 with the intention of pushing food and prevention into the healthcare system. She oversees the growth of this initiative in efforts to move the dial on medical reimbursement for fresh, nutritious food. Her current work is deeply rooted in righting the wrong in the food access world and challenging a system that locks the disadvantaged in a charity-based cycle.

She sits on multiple local and state-level boards to promote equality and diversity in the dietetics profession, as well as expanding “food is medicine” strategies across the state.

Olivia’s personal and professional experiences surrounding food have taken many shapes, from counseling native populations in rural Alaska to leading the nutrition and food curriculum at a therapeutic wilderness program for teen girls to working clinically with inpatient and outpatient populations at leading hospitals.

The interest innutrition evolved from many years working in kitchens, from bakeries to fine-dining. She has lived the homesteading lifestyle while establishing life in a yurt on a small piece of land outside of Seattle, where she expanded skills of growing, raising, preserving, hunting and butchering food. Food is the seed that all of Olivia’s personal and professional ambitions extend from and her entrenched belief is that it has the ability to heal mentally, physically and emotionally.

In this episode we discuss:

• Olivia's homesteading experience.
• Hunting & fishing in Alaska.
• Creating a grocery prescription program (GroceryRx).
• The top 3 issues in our food system.

Episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QHW-phOMn4N0sQ5l2s7OHz0yQRuGOn3FlfXP7fqVELA/edit?usp=sharing

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I recently attended the Polyface Farm Intensive Discover Seminar. A two-day intensive seminar on everything from livestock management to water conservation.

Polyface Farm is a rural farm located in Swoope, VA run by Joel Salatin and his family. Salatin has been featured in many books such as The Omnivore's Dilemma and the popular documentary Food, Inc. The farm uses unconventional methods such as rotational grazing, composting, and carbon sequestration, with the intent of operating as an ecosystem versus a conventional farm.

In this episode, I answer listener questions like:

• What did you like best/least?
• How do they rotate their animals?
• What did you eat on the farm?
• How is Joel in real life?
• What practices surprised you?
• Will you do anything differently with your homestead since attending?
• Was it worth the money?

Podcast script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xOURIhBNchuHpBqk7bJzuGvVviyD7rHMb3f4sxPBKsQ/edit?usp=sharing

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Michael Don Ham is a founding member and President of the Wild Orchard Tea Company. Wild Orchard’s teas are the world’s first to have obtained Regenerative Organic Certification (ROC) and winner of 10 medals at prestigious international tea competitions. Wild Orchard was created out of the desire to share the world’s purest and highest quality organic teas, backed by an unmatched regenerative and biodynamic cultivation process, with people across the globe to improve human and planetary health.

Ham has a degree majoring in Kinesiology with a minor in Nutrition and has spent the past two decades in the field of health and wellness, serving in leadership roles within the non-profit, organic farming, custom integration and consumer packaged goods sectors.

Michael is part of the International WELL Building Institute as an Accredited Professional and Faculty member as well as with Fitwel as an Ambassador to increase awareness of how the spaces where we live, work, study and play can impact our health and to share his passion for continuous improvement through people and planet-centric design and technology.

He has a deep background in regenerative organic agriculture, indoor air quality, water quality and other important aspects of wellness technology for the home. Michael has been invited to speak about wellness and technology at IAQA, TecHome Builder Summits, Housing Innovation Alliance, GreenHome Institute, LivABLE Design Summit, CES 2021, CES 2022, CEDIA, Science in Design Summit Tour and the World Tea Expo.

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Podcast Script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PPtTtlbiksSqmN8Zmx0o5IN1pFjjsGkOZ70tvTfIoE0/edit?usp=sharing