If we are what we eat — an old adage that most seem to grasp — then why do so many Americans want to be fast food burgers, frozen dinners, and high-fructose sugar? There is another way, and on October 27, the Plant Food and Medicine Conference comes to Santa Barbara City College to remind us how to eat healthier and reveal how a plant-based diet can even serve as medicine.
Featuring six seminars, on topics from essential oils to healing plants to cannabis 101, and two keynote speakers, the event is being organized by Jacqueline Lopez, whose husband nearly died last year from cancer-related treatments. “We shifted our source of nourishment and healing to plants as much as we could,” said Lopez, and the results inspired her to converge speakers from around the state.
Three of them give insight into their work and lectures below.