Connecting you to local food that nourishes you and the land.
Good food starts with good soil and good soil starts with good connections. These connections begin between billions of microbes, fungi, and small creatures in the soil, forming a community right beneath your feet. This community nourishes your food as it grows, delivering nutrients to the grass a cow eats and to the root systems of a tomato plant alike. When you buy a steak from that grazing cow or purchase a tomato grown in good soil, you’re connecting to the land and creating a whole new community – one between you and your farmer, one that nourishes your local food system. It’s a cycle of nourishment that lays the ground work with one simple step – eating local.
Lay the ground work with one simple step: eating local.
Good food is returning to a farm near your home. Industrialized agriculture separated us from our food system. In just a few generations, food went from being grown in our backyards to being flown in to grocery stores from every corner of the globe. In that time span, we went from eating seasonal whole foods, to eating processed foods and factory-farmed meat. The health of the soil began to decline as farmland transitioned to monocrops and synthetic pesticides and herbicides were used in an attempt to increase yields. Our health, which is a mirror of soil health, began to decline, too.
When you make a connection with a farmer near home, you’re connecting back to nature, back to health, and back to your community. These connections lay the ground work for real change: within our individual bodies, our collective health, and the soil itself.
You nourish your local food system when. you purchase meat and produce from farmers near home. In doing so, you support regenerative farming practices that foster soil health, and help. them take root and grow into a local food movement. And you’re taking a step towards ensuring your own health by eating nutrient dense whole foods.
WHO WE ARE
Kate Kavanaugh the founder of Western Daughters Butcher Shop. She runs an experimental regenerative farm with her husband, Josh. She is a nutrition therapist, chef, photographer, writer, and lover of the outdoors.
Josh Curtiss is a master carpenter, artist, farmer and founder of Western Daughters. He now runs a regenerative farm with his wife, Kate. He is an avid forager, kayaker, animal lover, and chef who loves spending as much time as possible outdoors in the sunshine.
Dr. Anthony Gustin is the Founder and CEO of Perfect Keto & Equip Foods, host of The Natural State Podcast, author of the best-seller Keto Answers. He is a former sports rehab clinician turned entrepreneur and trained in functional medicine.
