nutrition – The Convergence

Adrian Carroll

Joshua Angelo Silva — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:47:58 +0000

Adrian has been creating and managing ecological homesteads for 15 years. His unwavering commitment to quality and his passion for epicureanism has produced countless vibrant expressions of life. He has dedicated many years to growing the highest quality foods and medicines. His love of food and indigenous culture has led him down the path of mixing ancient wild foods with vital foods grown on his farm, the result has been a culinary alchemy that supports life at the most foundational level.

He also teaches permaculture in California and Costa Rica. His extensive wisdom and rich connection with the natural world creates a ripe environment for learning

2017 Workshop:Ecological Vitality

Ecological Vitality

Joshua Angelo Silva — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:41:23 +0000

This workshop will teach participants how to craft the best diet for their being. We will look at constitutions, lifestyles, medical issues, geographical locations, and belief systems to help each individual learn what will support them at this stage of their life. Also covered some of the basic of how to grow and prepare some of the most important foods.

This workshop will teach participant how to craft the best diet for their being, and grow and prepare the most important foods.

Friday Oct 6| 11am| Mediterranean Garden

Presented By: Adrian Carroll

Pedro Rodriguez

Lindsey Morriss — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 05:52:08 +0000

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Guatemalan by birth, Pedro Rodriguez has been exploring the connections between seeds, plants, food, nutrition, health and diet related diseases for more than half of his life. Pedro has been vegetarian for 18 years, owner, manager and passionate chef of the vegetarian-vegan-healthy food restaurant El Infinito and a big fan and promoter of traditional gastronomy as well as the consumers to farmers local networking outreach. He is also promoter and supporter of the slow food festival in his home city Quetzaltenango, and founder of El Infinito Cultura Permanente, an urban sustainability demonstrative house.

With experience in the field of nutrition and indigenous superfoods, Pedro has created recipe books and work shops to help improve the nutritional deficit of the people with very limited resources living in the rural areas of Guatemala. He has also participated and collaborated with a number of organizations creating, improving or expanding current programs to fight malnutrition in Guatemala. I.E. Cooking classes for the indigenous people utilizing their own ingredients, indigenous superfoods from their areas and familiar to their cultures and the traditional kitchens and utensils they have. Implementing Indigenous plants like Chaya (cnidoscolus aconitifolius) or Chan (Salvia Hispanica) and Amaranth (Amaranthus) as an incredible support for improving nutrition and strengthening the immune system of the Guatemalan kids of the rural areas.

More recently Pedro has been working with Project NuMundo in the dreaming stages and planning of a great impact center that aims to contribute to the local indigenous communities of Lanquín, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, with an educational approach to permaculture, nutrition and the hole relation of food-health seed to plate. Nutrition is in a way a part of an inner permaculture, which will always be sensitive to the qualities and quantities of our diet, but it is also ultimately a strong political posture that can have a massive and rapid impact in the ways of our society.

2015 Convergence Panel: Plant Medicine & Community Health: Past, Present & Future