Much like Dan Barber’s, The Third Plate, calls for a rethinking/reimagining and a paradigm shift in the way we eat, well beyond the current farm-to-table model, but a call for a more sustainable way of growing, preparing and consuming food,
Medicine is Everywhere challenges us to embark on and embrace a reconnection to the medicine that is all around us—in the air, soil, water and the multitude of plants, many of which are right out our front doors.
 
Our current system of “health care” is based on a colonizers mentality of conquer and kill. It draws on an increasingly overwhelming reliance on pharmaceutical medicines which wreak havoc on the environment, creatures great and small, as well as humans. It is focused on relief of symptoms, and Quixotic quests for “treatments” fueled by the pharmaceutical companies that profit from them, rather than sleuthing out the, mostly toxic, root causes of diseases and illness.
 
We need a fresh take on an ancient paradigm: that is our bodies are inextricably connected to the natural world because we are part of the planetary web of life. We need food to be the first tier of good health, which means non toxic methods of farming (for the sake of the farmers, soil and consumers), an emphasis on lifestyle, sleep and connection, having all forms of body work, as well as energy, light and sound widely accessible, and promoting local and regional plant medicine and food through education about the plants, foraging, and farming.