February 18, 2025

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Foods As Drugs, Even On The Open Highway | Earth Eats: Real Foods, Eco-friendly Residing

Greg Emmons standing near the entrance to a building, with a blue longsleeved shirt and blue sky in the background

Gregory Emmons was inspired to improve his diet plan in purchase to deal with his diabetic issues. Expending most of his week on the open up highway, he had to get innovative. (Kayte Youthful/WFIU)

“Driving a truck, I never have a great deal of time, but I do have a skillet and a crock pot that I can plug into the 12 volt method of the truck.”

This 7 days on our present we head down to Paoli, Indiana to master about a nourishment prescription software offering weekly packing containers of fresh create, recipes and cooking workshops for people running diabetes.

And Josephine McRobbie talks with business enterprise historian Ai Hisano about her e book Visualizing Taste: How Organization Changed the Glance of What You Eat.

Plus, a visually stunning Thai curry soup recipe from Chef Arlyn Llewellyn of Perform Brewing.

A Co-op, a Clinic and a University

We’ve talked on the exhibit prior to about Food stuff as Medicine. You might remember a story about Anderson Group Clinic North of Indianapolis. They operate a farm on-website to give refreshing produce for clients and staff members. 

This 7 days we’re heading down to Orange County to study about The Southern Indiana Farm to Wellbeing Initiative.

Julia Valliant standing on a sunny patio

Julia Valliant, on the patio at Shed River Sector & Deli in Paoli, Indiana immediately after just one of the Saturday consumption periods for the nutrition prescription method (Kayte Young/WFIU)

Indiana University Sustainable Foodstuff Units Science is lending analysis assistance to a local community-led community health intervention in partnership with Southern Indiana Group Wellbeing Treatment and The Shed River Marketplace and Deli–a purely natural food items Co-op in Paoli. 

I spoke with scientist Julia Valliant. She’s a Exploration Fellow with Sustainable Foods Programs Science, The Ostrom Workshop and the Middle for Rural Engagement at Indiana College.

I also spoke with Donna Charles, a nurse with Southern Indiana Neighborhood Wellbeing Care who recruited for the plan and measured the biometrics for the participants. 

Colin Spear standing by a store front window
Collin Spear teaches the recipe workshops employing the Cooking Issues Cirriculum

Collin Spear functions at Dropped River Co-op, and he ran the cooking workshops–which turned into instructional films as they altered the system for COVID-19 constraints. You can locate the video for the Sweet Potato Sheperd’s Pie that Gregory Emmons talks about, on the Dropped River Neighborhood Co-op YouTube Channel

Gregory Emmons is one the participants in the program. As a truck driver, he’s on the road all week, where healthier taking in is a obstacle. Greg has taken matters into his have arms by prepping vegetable treats forward of time and by cooking in his truck. He can take an electric skillet and a crock pot with him on the highway so he can put together his individual meals. Listen to about what he is acquired cookin’ in the cab of his truck, on this week’s display.

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The Earth Eats topic music is composed by Erin Tobey and done by Erin and Matt Tobey.

Extra music on this episode from Toby Foster and from Universal Output Audio.