Diana Rodgers - Homegrown Paleo Cookbook Over 100 Delicious 2C Gluten-Free 2C Farm-to-Table Recipes Delicious, Gluten-Free, Farm-to-Table Recipes, and a Complete Guide to Growing Your Own Healthy Food

THE HOMEGROWN PALEO

COOKBOOK

OVER 100 DELICIOUS,
GLUTEN-FREE, FARM-TO-TABLE RECIPES, AND

A COMPLETE GUIDE TO GROWING YOUR
OWN HEALTHY FOOD

DIANA RODGERS, NTP with ANDREW RODGERS

VICTORY BELT PUBLISHING, INC.

LAS VEGAS

First Published in 2015 by Victory Belt Publishing Inc.

Copyright 2015 Diana Rodgers

All rights reserved

No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission from the publisher.

ISBN 13: 978-1-628600-62-9 (hardcover)
978-1-628600-82-7 (ebook)

The authors are not licensed practitioners, physicians, or medical professionals and offer no medical treatments, diagnoses, suggestions or counseling. The information presented herein has not been evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and it is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Full medical clearance from a licensed physician should be obtained before beginning or modifying any diet, exercise, or lifestyle program, and physicians should be informed of all nutritional changes.

The authors/owners claim no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.

Printed in the U.S.A.

RRD 0115

Book design by: Yordan Terziev and Boryana Yordanova

Cover design by: Melissa Schwab

Photography by: Heidi Murphy

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Dedication

My love goes out to our future generation and to my beautiful
and intensely inquisitive children, Anson and Phoebe. May you all
grow up to be passionate and open-minded, to question everything,
and to make the world a better place.

A beautiful book that unites the Paleo diet with the sustainable homefront. Dont read this book to change your diet. Read it to change your life.

Shannon Hayes, author of Radical Homemakers

Diana makes wholesome, fresh food both accessible and a lot of fun. She shows how to integrate sustainable eating into the life of a busy family. A perfect resource for a working mom like me.

Emily Deans, MD, Clinical Instructor, Harvard Medical School

The way we farm animals, the impact of farming systems on the environment, and the nutritional quality of the meat, milk, and eggs they produce are all intrinsically linked. If we manage animals according to their needs, we know they produce better-tasting, healthier meat, milk, and eggs, and we dont have to rely on things like routine antibiotics and other chemical inputs. And we know that managing animals on pasturerather than in confinementcan actually have a positive impact on the environment and could help to mitigate climate change.

In The Homegrown Paleo Cookbook, Diana Rodgers not only articulates the reasons we urgently need to change the way we farm and feed ourselves in a clear, candid, and accessible way, but she empowers the reader, offering uncomplicated guidance and support so we can all achieve a truly sustainable, healthful, and rewarding dietone meal at a time.

Andrew Gunther, Program Director, Animal Welfare Approved

The shift in agriculture, from one based on biology to one based on chemistry, and the resulting shift in consumption from whole foods to highly processed foods have resulted in nutrition-related disease, obesity, and environmental destruction. We can change this frightening and unnecessary situation. And we can start by changing what our own families eat. Diana provides an excellent, easy-to-follow road map for changing our diets and regenerating the health of our families, the environment, and the planet.

by Joel Salatin

Before supermarkets, cattle feedlots, chicken factories, takeout, and the moldboard plow, people acquired most of their diet proximate to where they lived. They hunted, fished, and tended food plots right outside their dooror tent or yurt or hut. While often they suffered from infectious diseases due to unhygienic or smoky living conditions, they otherwise enjoyed excellent health, and many lived to ripe old age.

In this readable and practical book, Diana Rodgers shows us how to re-create the healthful living and nutritious food of our ancestors, without re-creating their living conditions. Using our techno-glitzy culinary gizmos with ancient food stocks, we can certainly live in the best of times. Highly developed civilizations need not succumb to a new generation of noninfectious ailments like type II diabetes and cancer.

We can enjoy unprecedented health, but only if we participate. We cannot build a healthy future on potato chips, fast food, and convenience.

When people ask me, What can I do to join the integrity food movement? I respond with three action steps. First, get in your kitchen to prepare, process, package, and preserve whole foods acquired directly from producers or from your own personal production. Second, take all your recreational and entertainment budget for one year and spend that time and money info-taining yourself into the food treasures in your area. Join the tribe that gets it. Third, do something yourself, whether keeping a beehive on the roof, a container garden on the patio, or two chickens in the space formerly occupied by the boa constrictor, gerbil, dog, or cat. Every single person can actively join a visceral relationship with their bodys fuel.

Overcoming our societal ignorance requires guidebooks, hand-holding, and cheerleaders. Diana is a cheerleader for a healthy future; a future with ecological, economic, and emotional integrity. If you find yourself yearning for an abundant future, a healthy future, a vibrant relationship with your ecological umbilical, this handbook will lead you to that place. Thank you, Diana, for adding your experience and wisdom to integrity living. I hope this inspires many people to come down out of the stands and begin playing the most exciting gamelife.

by Robb Wolf

I WAS FIRST INTRODUCED TO DIANA SEVERAL YEARS AGO BY A MUTUAL ACQUAINTANCE, MAT LALONDE. DIANA AND I HAVE SINCE BECOME GREAT FRIENDS, COPRESENTING AT A NUMBER OF CONFERENCES, AND WE HAVE REALLY BONDED ON THE SUSTAINABILITY STORY SHE DEVELOPS SO WELL IN THIS BOOK.

To give you an idea of the importance of sustainability, let me relate a conversation I had with Mat on the topic. First, you have to understand that Mat is usually the smartest person in the roomhe has a PhD from Harvard in one of the most prestigious organic chemistry labs in the worldand even though he is a dear friend, if I put forward something he regards as lame, he will give me a verbal pummeling only slightly less uncomfortable than being submerged in concentrated sulfuric acid. His nickname is the Kraken, because when the Kraken is released, cities, towns, and poorly conceived thoughts are summarily destroyed. So broaching the topic of the Paleo diet and sustainability with Mat was stressful. I tried to butter him up by first talking about some training ideas and then his favorite Ramones song, and then I blurted out something like this: So, Ive been thinking about all this Paleo stuff in the context of sustainability. When you think about stable, dynamic ecologies, dont we see an interaction of plant and animal consumers? Is Planet of the Vegans really sustainable? How do we build a long-term sustainable food system on government subsidies and ever more expensive oil?