Desiree Rumbaugh and I are psyched to be in the March 2013 edition of Yoga Journal for our Eat Green Challenge. Check out p. 37-44 – the article by Lavinia Spalding called Crunch Time: Revitalize yourself with a plant-based eating plan that celebrates fruits and veggies. Also, Des and I want to get a shout out to our dear old friend and colleague, Stacey Rosenberg, who is the “student” of Eat Green in the article.

Eat Green goes Mainstream

Perhaps I’m getting ahead of myself, but we’ve all seen signs that the mainstream getting hip to the idea that most of what needs to be on the plate and go into the body needs to be greens and fruits and roots.

Human Everyday Diet = Greens, Roots, Shoots, Fruits + some nuts and seeds

This diet, while once convenient and available has been made inconvenient by the industrialization and commercialization of “food” and of “healthcare”.  I need to start using the obnoxious “” because you and I both know that 95% of what is sold in the conventional grocery store doesn’t quality as optimal fuel and body-building material for your awakening human body. What qualifies as “healthcare” is something like insurance, prescriptions. And maybe some radiation thrown in – with either the “food” or the “healthcare”.  We know you know this, and that you’re taking your food and healthcare to the next level. So are we.

The Evolving Edge of Eat Green

Future Human Everyday Diet =  cultivated + wild Greens from your local ecosystem+Roots, Shoots, Fruits + some nuts and seeds

During the hours of talking and emailing with Lavinia for Yoga Journal about the Eat Green Challenge, we talked about specifies diversification in the human diet and health evolution. For a long time. Unfortunately, this didn’t make the cut. Which means perhaps that they didn’t think you’re ready for that. I know it’s a leap – it’s the next frontier. It’s the level 4 of yoga poses – the syllabus Darren and Noah are working on.

Desiree and I talk make a practice of to people who on the edge of  human health evolution and evolving their diet. We compare notes. We keep hearing the same thing. The diet gets more green, more in your kitchen, more sprouting, more in your yard, more in your ecosystem.

If this seems cutting edge, it’s not. It’s prehistoric. Deep gratitude to the all of the personal and planetary tribe leaders who have been getting the word out over the eons and eons about knowing and eating  and caring for our plants friends.

Prehistoric Plant Friends Meet the Vitamix

Yes, I did use the word plant friends. During the Eat Green Challenge, you may choose to eat exclusively fruits and vegetables. You start to eat a lot of greens. Maybe 3 times a day in various smoothies, juices, soups, salads. You start to wake up to Eating Green. At some point you notice God’s Earth is Green. As you notice our Earth, where it looks healthy, wears a green mantle you start to think there are a lot of free nutrients just hanging from trees and bushes, and shooting up through the cracks in the concrete.

This is such an outrageously progressive and outrageous prehistoric idea. This is where the progressive and prehistoric come together. For anyone struggling with immune issues, degenerative disease issues, aging and feeling feeling like your aging issues, you need to pay attention to this. The edge of the Eat Green Challenge goes to getting more involved with where your greens and shoots, in particular, are coming from. Getting clued in to what you can sprout in your house, eat from your yard, and nourish to thrive in your ecosystem is where this game plan begins. All of this becomes convenient and saves you money to boot.

Where it ends, I have no idea of the kind of communion future humans and future plants will be capable of. I leave that to all of us to find out.

Where it begins… is with you and your dandelions and your vitamix.

Leave a comment if you want us in Yoga Journal regularly:

Desiree and I want to have a monthly column in Yoga Journal on body-mind-diet evolution. We want it to be a Q+ A column, something like,

Eat Green: Evolve Your Diet with Your Practice  Q+A with Desiree + Cate
that covers the dietary transitions on the yoga path, plant-based eating, the lowfat vegan edge, Ayurveda, and include a local/ecological and wild food component.

We need YOU if you’re interested in reading an Eat Green Q+A column in Yoga Journal. Just leave a comment below and we’ll make sure it gets in front of the right eyeballs. Thanks for your time.