Connecting back to your food with a whole Chicken

I had a really interesting conversation with a dear friend of mine over the weekend.

They are also farmers and started selling some meat chickens this year to see how it would go. They've sold a few to local customers and one comment stuck with them.

Their client mentioned how they are so used to buying chicken breasts at the grocery store that they aren't used to seeing the whole chicken carcass and that not only will they have to figure out what to do with it all, they're also a bit grossed out by it.

And holy is that not the magic sauce right there.

But what a crazy thing for me to say right?
This client was so uncomfortable with the fact that they now have to worry about what to do with a whole chicken, that it's making them rethink they're relationship with it.

So how is this exact situation the magic sauce?

Because the majority of our food has been reduced to a styrofoam tray and/or plastic wrapping. Anything from meat, to veggies to processed food - the moment that can change is when we realize our disconnect and how, just maybe, we were never truly honouring our food in the first place.

I say often how we are so disconnected from our food but ultimately it comes down the fact that we are so comfortable with our discomfort and disconnection that we are stuck. Until it gets thrown at us like this situation, change will likely not happen.

Ignoring how our food gets onto our plate causes more long term harm to ourself, our economy and our ecosystem than truly sitting with that discomfort and acknowledging that to be human means that something has died for us to eat (regardless of what it on your plate) and that it doesn't make us bad or wrong, is life changing.

Voting with your dollars is life changing.

Learning about your food system and slowly making changes, is life changing.

It's so much more than food and has the potential to change your relationship with your community, your food, your body, your economy, your mental health etc. etc.

It sounds so unbelievably simple but eating and sharing food that we've gathered and prepared with community is our oldest instinct as humans and when you lean into that instinct, it can change your life.

How your food gets onto your plate, is so much more important than what it on it.

Want to get reacquainted with a whole chicken that's been raised outside and regeneratively from a local farm instead of chicken cuts, click here.

If you're not there yet and want chicken cuts instead, that's totally okay too and we've got you, click here.