Helping Your Community Heal with Functional Medicine Farming

Workshops

Helping Your Community Heal with Functional Medicine Farming

Ashely Grosch

In this workshop, I will discuss how functional medicine weaves into regenerative farming. Farmers are uniquely positioned in healthcare as the solution for true health. Human biology and plant/farm animal biology are very similar in the sense that all require a very narrow physiological condition in which to operate (called homeostasis). Many farmers miss the link between plant/animal health and human health. Learning the connection can help your community live healthier lives! This encouraging talk inspires the audience to not just grow food for their family but to select an MVP that nurtures their own strength (herbs, market vegetables, etc) to extend a hand of nourishment to their community. The last part of the discussion is a Q&A style forum for clients to ask me specific questions as related to functional medicine or regenerative agriculture. Specific topics covered: - What are the most nutrient dense varieties of fruits and vegetables? - How do I revamp timeless recipes for canning and jamming so they do not contain processed sugar? - How can I effectively teach my consumers about the regenerative lifestyle without making it sound overwhelming? - How do I guide my own family back to health?

Teacher Bio:

Ashley has been a functional medicine farmer for over ten years. As a functional medicine practitioner, she is a certified as a functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner (FDN-P), an ADAPT practitioner by Chris Kresser, & a certified health coach by Dr. Sears. As a regenerative farmer, she received training in permaculture at Cornell and is able to use her understanding of regenerative food growth in her practice as a regenerative nutritionist. Ashley runs a small farm in Virginia Beach with her husband and four sons. She also owns an agritourism farm store, an organic grocery store and a functional wellness center that specializes in lifestyle medicine programs for a variety of conditions ranging across all ages. She has a passion for working with children by teaching them a preventive health routine that will last a lifetime. She also works closely with special needs children and brain balancing. For adults, Ashley specializes in lifestyle medicine solutions for gut health, cognitive function, hormone health, fertility, pregnancy preparation, & prenatal/postpartum care. She shares time between caring for her family, chickens, ducks, and market vegetable/fruit plants and caring for people in her community.