A Plant-Rich Diet

Good for You, the Animals,
Good for the Earth!!

Update on ICCT Network Meeting

Watch the Video Here

On November 6, 2021, forty Creation care enthusiasts joined Dilip Barman, an accomplished chef, and Emily Barrett, a sustainability expert, for a dynamic discussion on how to care for the earth, optimize your health, and promote compassion for animals at the very same time!  It was sponsored by Interfaith Creation Care of the Triangle, Pachamama Alliance RTP, and Orange-Chatham Interfaith Care for Creation.  Apologies for the occasional video interruption (the bottom third of the screen disappears but you can still see the speaker and hear everything).

Emily Barrett, Pachamama RTP Volunteer and Natural Resources & Resilience Professional, shared important facts about the effects of a plant-rich diet. Dilip Barman, an accomplished chef, and Food for Life instructor, discussed easy ways to introduce more plants into our diets.  The speakers shared this extensive list of resources about the topics that were covered.

EATING MORE PLANTS RESOURCES

November 6, 2021, ICCT and Pachamama RTP Event

• Triangle Vegetarian Society Annual Thanksgiving Celebration
  • Vegetarian Thanksgiving Feast and Raffle – Triangle Vegetarian Society (trianglevegsociety.org)

• Climate Healers

• Regeneration 
  
  • Regeneration Resources on Eating Plants
    Eating Plants | Project Regeneration

• Project Drawdown, Project Drawdown
  
  • Drawdown Resources on Eating Plants
    Plant-Rich Diets | Project Drawdown

• Food for Life

• Dilip Barman’s Food for Life Promo

• So Many Cooks In the Kitchen

Watch

• Code Blue is a documentary Produced by Dilip Barman
• Gather is a documentary about Native Americans reclaiming their spiritual, political, and cultural identities through food sovereignty.
• Seeds of Freedom is a three-part documentary that tells the story of seed and its role in regenerative food systems around the world.
• Beyond the Plate: Agrobiodiversity (2 mins)
• The Race to Save Endangered Foods (5 mins)
• Cultivating Equality in the Food System is a TEDx Talk by Danielle Nierenberg of Food Tank (14 mins)
• Soul Fire Farm (9 mins)
• Sioux Chef (3 mins)
• Tending the Wild: Decolonizing the Diet (15 mins)
• Food from the Radical Center, a presentation by Gary Nabhan (64 mins)
• Food Foraging videos on TikTok

READ

• Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience by Enrique Salmon
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Nature of Crops: How We Came to Eat the Plants We Do by John Warren
• Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love by Simran Sethi
• Farming While Black by Leah Penniman
• The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen (2018 James Beard Award Winner)
• The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved by Sandor Katz
• Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in the Age of Climate Crisis by Vandana Shiva
• Decolonize Your Diet: Plant-Based Mexican-American Recipes for Health and Healing by Luz Calvo
• The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices by Eric Toensmeier
• Perennial Vegetables by Eric Toensmeier
• Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World by Paul Stamets 
• Diet for the Small Planet (Fiftieth-anniversary edition) by Francis Moore Lappe 
• Diet for a Hot Planet by Anna Lappe
• How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman
• An Onion in My Pocket: My Life with Vegetables by Deborah Madison
• Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time by Craig LeHoullier
• Restoration Agriculture by Mark Shepard
• Defending Beef: A Case for Sustainable Meat Production by Nicolette Hahn Niman
• Edible Wild Plants for Beginners by Althea Pres
• Ancient Agriculture: Roots and Application of Sustainable Farming (written in 1513 in Spain) by Gabriel De Herrera
• Any book by Gary Nabhan
• Bending the Curve: the Restorative Power of Plant-based Diets by the World Wildlife Fund
• Mainstreaming Agrobiodiversity in Sustainable Food Systems by Bioversity International
• The State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization

LISTEN

• Toasted Sister is podcast about Native American food.
• The Native Seed Pod is a podcast that explores native foodways.
• Links to thirty-three different podcasts on food, nutrition, and justice provided by Food Tank.
• Oral histories of native food revitalization.