97. Eating Like Earthkeepers, with Nutritionist Leslie Aaron

Earthkeepers: A Circlewood Podcast on Creation Care and Spirituality

While most listeners to this podcast have found ways to make changers in their lives in order to live in more earth-sustaining ways, how often do we pay attention to what we eat as a critical factor for an earthkeeping lifestyle? Think about the foods that made up the last meal you ate: Do you know where those foods came from? How they were produced? How those foods impacted your carbon footprint?

In this episode, Forrest talks to nutritionist Leslie Aaron—a person who helps people answer such questions for a living. Leslie works to promote community nutrition in places all around the world. She and her husband Douglas also work as contractors with global nonprofits in disaster relief and have their own organization called Fulcrum Missions, which supports local churches and ministries through context-appropriate projects. In one of their most recent endeavors, they’ve been working in Nicaragua to set up aquaponics systems—an approach to farming both fish and vegetables in sustainable, environmentally sound ways.
Guest: Leslie Aaron

• Nutritionist
• Fulcrum Missions
• LinkedIn

Mentions:

• Bastyr University
• USDA Organic Certification
• Monocropping
• Circlewood Ecological Christian Leadership Cohort
• Find us on our website: Earthkeepers

Keywords: food, nutrition, community, diet, local food, vitamins, creation care, harvesting, greening, simplifying, organic, globalization, availability, childcare, child nutrition, traditional diets, herbicides, pesticides, whole foods, processed foods, ultra processed foods, ingredients, monocropping, animal products, cage free, free range, imports, social justice, environmental justice

Find us on our website: Earthkeepers
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