The Secret to a Clean, Nutrient-dense Summer Diet
Eating seasonally and locally is the secret to a clean, nutrient-dense diet.
At All Ages Osteopathy, we believe a lot of the diseases and ailments people suffer from are due to poor nutrition.
The dietary principles that Dr. Charlie’s family follows, and that she recommends to her patients at All Ages Osteopathy, is steeped in ancestral principles. Instead of relying on any trend diet or chic food products, start by asking yourself, ‘was this food around 100 years ago?’ If the answer is no, then don’t eat it. Because our ancestors had significantly less chronic disease, Dr. Charlie believes that looking to the past has the answers of what we should be putting into our bodies today. Our ancestors ate seasonally, locally, and whole (non-processed) foods. They didn’t pasteurize their dairy products and they ate the entire animal, not just muscle meat, but organ meat too. They relied heavily on fermented foods for preservation and gut health. They took care to make their grains more digestible by soaking them first.
Even when people think they’re eating well, they’re often missing important nutrients because food simply isn’t as nutritious as it used to be. Eating a nutrient dense diet from a reliable source can feel like an uphill battle in our modern world, but Jackson Hole has easily accessible resources such as Haderlie Farms and Teton Slow Foods.
Here’s a few of our summer favorites!
The items I buy regularly from Haderlie Farms are milk, eggs, raw cream, lard, butter, honey and bone in lamb chops as well as Outdoor Insect Oil, Calendula Cream and Arnica Sports Rub.
For more information about Curtis Haderlie, read this blog post.
The items I buy regularly are Wild Flour Bakery cranberry walnut loaf, Melissahof garlic, Huidekoper Ranch kale, Schumway Farms Icelandic Skyr and Squire Farms French cheeses.
Order online between Monday at noon and Tuesday at 6:00pm for pickup Thursday afternoon from 1:00pm to 5:00pm at the Teton Slow Foods Farm Stand next to Twigs Greenhouse 890 US-89, Jackson, WY 83001.
Also! Teton Slow Foods hosts the People’s Market every Wednesday, June 7th through September 27th from 4:00pm – 7:00pm on the Center for the Arts Lawn.
Celtic people have been making and drinking alcoholic cider since 3000 BC. It’s a great beverage to bring to summer barbecues!
Farmstead Cider is available at Whole Foods, Teton Slow Foods and The Jackson Hole Farmer’s Market.
Want to learn about the cider making process? The cidery is open for tours Tuesday & Wednesday from 1:00pm – 4:00pm and Thursday through Saturday from 1:00pm – 7:00pm beginning June 1st. 4125 Pub Place Suite #3 Jackson, WY 83001.
Also, the Jackson Hole Farmer’s Market is every Saturday, July 1st – September 30th from 8:00am – 12:00pm on Town Square.
