Food is Medicine

How Organic Farming & Healthcare Can Work Together

Food as medicine is the idea that access to nutritious food is essential for health and well-being.

The food is medicine movement integrates programs like produce prescriptions, whole-food diets, & medically tailored meals into the healthcare system as a way to help prevent, manage, and treat human health.

Chronic Illness in the U.S.

Our food now has fewer nutrients than the fresh foods our grandparents ate.

This is attributed to the way our food is grown and the soil is managed now, especially since the agricultural revolution of the 1940’s where chemicals gained an outsized role in farming.

New research is giving evidence that these chemicals in our food and water may be far more insidiously destructive than we first imagined...

 “It never occurred to me before then that food was the source of poor health in America”

More substantive research on the impacts of pesticides and organic food on human health

Increased consumer & medical education focused on the source of nutrition (soil health)

Policies & programs that incentivize the integration of medical care with access to organic food

Support for programs like TOPP to assist farmers interested in transitioning to organic farming

Produce Prescription

Medically Tailored Meals

Insurance- Sponsored CSAs

Nutrition Incentives