Dr. Lisa Belisle

Plenty: There is no greater foundation for good health than regular meals, yet many of our neighbors suffer from food insecurity, or worse, real hunger. How can we help insure that everyone in our state has a place at the dinner table? John Woods from Share Our Strength, chef Jeff Landry of  The Farmer's Table , and John Naylor, owner of Rosemont Market and Bakery discuss their vision for a community with enough food for all. Please join us!

Our first featured guest is John Woods of Share Our Strength. Share Our Strength was featured in the June 2011 issue of Maine Magazine.   SOS is working to make sure no kid in Maine grows up hungry. In a state where 1 in 4 children is unsure about where their next meal is coming from, our dedicated volunteers work with community groups and good local programs to catch these children and ensure they have nutritious food where they live, learn and play. Supported locally by our generous sponsors – Bill Dodge Auto Group; PowerPay; Maine Magazine; Stonewall Kitchen; WGME13 and Hannaford – and by Maine’s outstanding restaurants and chefs, we create engaging, pioneering programs like Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation®, Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale®, Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry: dinners®, Share Our Strength’s Dine Out®: No Kid Hungry, and Share Our Strength’s Cooking Matters®. Visit Strength.org/portlandme to learn more

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Our second featured guest is Chef Jeff Landry of The Farmer's Table. The Farmer’s Table opened its doors in 2009 and since then Chef Jeff Landry has been committed to using the finest, freshest ingredients he can source to create his Mediterranean-inspired menu.

The name reflects the vibe of the restaurant… it’s a casual place where you can sit, relax, enjoy good conversation, great food while being treated like a member of the family.

Farmer’s Table is a proud member of Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA), Portland Buy Local , World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) , and Portland’s Downtown District . And Chef Jeff is the 2007 Maine Restaurant Association Chef of the Year as well as a passionate supporter of SOS.

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John Naylor of Rosemont Market and Bakery shares with us his love for local food. John was featured in Maine Magazine in August of 2010.

Try asking John Naylor a question and the answer you get back will likely be peppered with a dozen names of close friends and associates. He’s not showing off, but rather offering a glimpse into his philosophy of life and business: we are nothing without the relationships we forge. What he’s done with his three Rosemont Market and Bakery stores is bring Maine’s expansive but close-knit world of talented local farmers to a larger audience by fashioning a true community-based enterprise. The lettuce you purchase is no longer an anonymous vegetable—it comes with a face and a story. It’s courtesy of  Penny Jordan of Jordan’s Farm in Cape Elizabeth, which, according to Naylor, has the best lettuce-growing conditions in the world.

Rosemont’s employees, hired for their
love of Maine food, are eager to show off their favorite olive oil, or let you in on the secrets of their green curry paste. It was Naylor’s audacity to imagine a store driven, not by price, but by intimate connections, that allowed him and his partner Scott Anderson to set the bar for quality local produce, meats, cheese, and wine.

From growing up on a farm with 12 siblings in Massachusetts to his job at the Portland Greengrocer, Naylor’s life has revolved around large families and fresh food. “I grew up on a farm, so I was around this culture my whole life,” Naylor says from his office in the middle of the Brighton Avenue store, where the aromas of fresh produce comingle with those emanating from the kitchen in the back. Possibly due to the admittedly underwhelming cooking of his mother, Naylor did not come to truly appreciate the sophistication of food until his early 20s, when he started working for the Village Fish Market in Connecticut. Running to Fulton Street during all hours of the night to pick up the fish was when, according to Naylor, “I first started to learn what good fish and good foods taste like. What was in season, what to look for—you eventually get an eye for it.” 

 

One of the surest paths to good health is having a healthy sense of community. How is community defined? Paul Knoll of Trust Your Spirit, Michelle Goldman of Sea Change Cooking School and Arlin Smith of Hugo's are creating communities dedicated to nature, food and camaraderie. We guarantee you'll be inspired by their insights!

The Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast airs weekly at 11 am on WLOB radio 1310 AM (Portland)/streaming online. Listen to the Podcast or click on the link below:

Our first featured guest is Paul Knoll. Paul Knoll has extensive experience with assessing and understanding the spirit of place, that is, where we live or work. His holistic work identifies the multiple energies that reside in our homes, work spaces and in the land. These energies may be helpful but they may also cause unhealthy stress that can be healed through earth acupuncture and other energetic/holistic practices.

Paul also works with his clients to strengthen the relationship between the spirit of place and the spirit of his clients. An open and loving relationship between place and people brings amazing blessings and tranquility to the place and to the people.

He travels throughout the country to assess and heal homes, businesses, and land, and teaches his clients to do the same. He has cleared or healed places as small as a few hundred square feet or as large as 100 hundred acres. He has assisted realtors and architects as they undertake building projects or sell real estate to ensure that the space is favorable for an endeavor.

An emerging niche for Paul is ‘clearing’ a home that is going to be sold or that was just purchased. Paul is also expanding his work to include the design and placement of medicine wheels and labyrinths and teaching how the plants and animals that reside on a place can aid in our journey and in our growth.

Paul has worked with medical intuitives, chiropractors, acupuncturists, dowsers, psychics, reiki masters, place healers, Native American spiritual guides, and shamans. Each practitioner has shared wisdom and knowledge that Paul enjoys passing on to his clients and students. Paul is in the midst of completing a Shaman Apprenticeship with Maine’s Dory Cote, and he is excited about further expanding his work in this sacred tradition.

In 2003, Paul founded New England Dowsing and recently expanded his services and renamed his practice Trust Your Spirit. Paul focuses on helping people understand and believe in their intuition. The magic is in “believing in our selves and realizing that we do know what is in our highest best interest.”

Originally from Pennsylvania, Paul now resides in Maine with his two daughters, a German Shepherd puppy named Koda, and some chickens.

Our second featured guest is Michelle Goldman of Sea Change Cooking School.

The path to well-being starts with your next meal. The Sea Change cooking school provides clients with the culinary tools, know-how, support and inspiration to improve their health through good food. We offer culinary education, hands-on experience and individual consultation for topics ranging from general wellness to dealing with conditions such as IBS and diabetes.

We follow a broad approach that takes into account individual needs and tastes. SeaChange cooking incorporates aspects of many healing food traditions including macrobiotic and ayurvedic styles. We cover a range of topics to suit a variety of issues. Focus areas include gluten free cooking, anti-inflammatory solutions and low sugar options.

Most importantly, we like to eat well. We help you to enjoy your food and improve your health.
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Our third segment features Arlin Smith of Hugo's, featured in the March issue of Maine Magazine.

Are you a runner, a runner-wanna-be, or have running friends and family in your life? Whether this is so, or whether you use your feet in other ways, we know you will learn much from this week's show, sponsored by the Maine Running Company/Maine Running Academy.  We feature discussions from Dr. Christopher Toth of Akari, John Rogers of  the Maine Running Company, Will Thomas of Tri-Maine and Maya Cohen, Volunteer Coordinator of the TD Bank Beach2Beacon.

The Dr. Lisa Radio Hour & Podcast airs weekly at 11 am on WLOB radio 1310 AM (Portland)/streaming online. Listen to the Podcast or click on the link below: