Pass the Radish: Building Community Resilience and Health through Food and Relationship
(12:00 noon US Central Time Zone)
Speakers will share their experience in creating a collaborative food is medicine, relationships-first program in their community. Then, through conversation and embodied practice, we will explore the roots of lasting health and community resilience. A method for participants to develop their own loving responses to their community will be offered.
About the Speakers
Kristi Crymes
Dr. Kristi Crymes is head of the HEAL program at the Institute for Zen Leadership (IZL), an IZL Instructor, member of the IZL Board, and a Chosei Zen student. When she isn’t at work as a family medicine physician and faculty at Cox Family Medicine Residency, she can be found in the virtual dojo or exploring the wilderness with her husband and 3 young boys near, and far from, their home in Springfield, MO. She is passionate about practicing and teaching the kind of medicine that allows for the free expression of compassion. She found this way of medicine not at medical school but at her first IZL HEAL program in 2017. Since then, she has devoted herself to the challenge of integrating what she is learning through Zen into the practice of medicine. She believes that Zen leadership training can transform medicine into something better for all of us. Beyond this, she sees that anyone from any walk of life who is practicing Zen is indeed practicing medicine, in its truest form.
Maile Auterson
Maile Auterson is a fourth-generation Ozarks farmer. As a founder and Executive Director of Springfield Community Gardens (SCG), she has led its expansion since 2010 from one garden to 17 community gardens, two market farms, and a training hospital farm. Maile has overseen the delivery of over 2 million pounds of fresh produce to food-insecure neighborhoods. She has worked with city planners for the Forward SGF 2040 Comprehensive Master Plan to promote urban agriculture and relocalization of the food economy, has been featured in Forbes magazine, and was appointed to the Missouri Food Security Task Force by the Missouri Department of Agriculture. Her dedication to local foodways was highlighted at The Smithsonian Institute Folklife Festival and she is recognized by The Missouri Foundation for Health as a Food Justice Visionary.
Bonus Content: State of Food and Agriculture, 2023 (3-minute video from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
Tufts Report on the savings and health benefits of Food is Medicine Programs
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