Bytable Podcast - Know Better Live Best

Kat Nigro teaches us about CompostNow and how they are doing their part in building a better food system. Composting, healthy soil, community building, and education are essential for us to build a better world.

Kat Nigro lives in Durham, NC and is the Head of Marketing & Engagement at CompostNow. Kat studied Environmental Science with a focus in Soil Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She's been involved in the community composting movement for the past 4 years and is enjoying watching it grow throughout the country. She's passionate about healthy soil, community building, intersectional feminism and writing her own introductions!

CompostNow is a doorstep collection service who empowers community members and businesses to divert their compostables from the landfill and, instead, use those nutrients to build healthy soil. Since 2011, their members have diverted over 6.5 million pounds of compostables from the landfill and have created over 2.8 million pounds of compost for local use.

Co-Host Alex Uding and Host Kari Ginger discuss the effect of stress on the body and why knowing the sourcing of your food is so important for reducing stress and improving gut health.

Bio:

Alex works with healthy and injured individuals alike, across the lifespan. She has special interest in orthopedic and sports rehab, women’s health, strength and conditioning, nutrition, and development of the female athlete. She is passionate about bridging the gap between rehabilitation and optimizing performance to promote a lifestyle of health and wellness through compassionate, person-centered care.

Alex has a Doctorate of Physical Therapy, is Precision Nutrition Certified, and is a Strength and Performance Coach. She works as a Physical Therapist and Performance Coach at Momentum Physical Therapy in Milford, MA.

Clinical Therapist, Sherilyn Nicholas teaches host Kari Ginger about psychology and mental health. The two discuss handling stress, self-care and the role fitness and nutrition play in one’s mental health.

After the discussion with Sherilyn, Alex Uding, PT, DPT, PN1 continues the conversation with Kari to talk about lessons learned from Sherilyn and how they practice self-care in their life.

Bio:

Sherilyn Nicholas, M.S., CAGS is a clinical therapist in Southeastern Massachusetts. She earned her Masters and Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies in Mental Health Counseling from Suffolk University in 2013 and 2015 respectively. She is a Certified Personal Trainer,

Group Exercise Instructor, Yin Yoga Instructor, and Mind Body Fitness Coach.

Nicholas is a former Division 1 Track & Field athlete who developed a passion for fitness, health and wellness. She turned to bodybuilding and became an OCB figure competitor and

successfully placed in the top 5 of her figure class in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

You can reach Sherilyn via e-mail: [email protected]

Host Kari Ginger continues her conversation with Patrick Robinette, Founder of Harris-Robinette Beef located in North Carolina. Patrick discusses why quality and transparency in the food industry is important to him and his vision for the future of farming.

You can listen to Part 1 with Patrick Robinette at www.knowbetterlivebest.com/2018/10/10/…eef-part-1/

With nothing but faith, family and this dream, Harris-Robinette Beef has grown exponentially over the last eighteen years. They started as a simple operation that provided beef on the farm. However, once people heard about the high quality of their beef and tasted their savory products, new markets quickly opened. Today, Harris-Robinette Beef exists to provide the consumer with an affordable, environmentally sound, high quality, nutritious beef through the raising of livestock exclusively on a grass-based system. Harris-Robinette utilizes a pasture-to-plate system to best serve the interest of their farm and to preserve agriculture in a sustainable fashion for the good of the land, the family, and our society.

Harris-Robinette Beef started humbly but with a grand plan: to create the finest beef this world has ever tasted...end of story.

Host Kari Ginger learns about the hard work that goes into producing quality grass-fed beef in Episode 12, Part One with Patrick Robinette, Founder of Harris-Robinette Beef located in North Carolina. Patrick discusses his daily life on the farm, the business side of the beef industry, the importance of food quality and transparency, and the future of farming.

With nothing but faith, family and this dream, Harris-Robinette Beef has grown exponentially over the last eighteen years. They started as a simple operation that provided beef on the farm. However, once people heard about the high quality of their beef and tasted their savory products, new markets quickly opened. Today, Harris-Robinette Beef exists to provide the consumer with an affordable, environmentally sound, high quality, nutritious beef through the raising of livestock exclusively on a grass-based system. Harris-Robinette utilizes a pasture-to-plate system to best serve the interest of their farm and to preserve agriculture in a sustainable fashion for the good of the land, the family, and our society.

Host Kari Ginger learns more about the work that goes into producing quality coffee with Benjamin Weiner, founder of Gold Mountain Coffee Growers in Nicaragua.

Benjamin Weiner is the founder of Gold Mountain Coffee Growers, a direct trade social enterprise that connects farmers of exquisite specialty coffees in Nicaragua with roasters throughout the world. Gold Mountain Coffee Growers has its own farm in Nicaragua called “Finca Idealista.” Ben is also a consultant on coffee harvesting and post-harvest processing and a licensed Q Grader.

Ben created Gold Mountain Coffee Growers in 2007, when small local farmers asked him for help connecting with international markets. They were upset that the coffee economy did not allow them to support their families effectively. He bases the entire social enterprise on quality. Gold Mountain won the SCAE excellence award for sustainability in 2016 for what their specialty coffees achieve economically and environmentally for coffee communities.

Host Kari Ginger learns about coffee roasting, the sourcing of coffee, and coffee quality from Brian Gumm, founder of Ross Street Roasting Company.

Ross Street Roasting Co. was founded in 2015 by Brian Gumm and a silent partner/investor. Their first large volume purchase of un-roasted/green coffee was a Direct Trade deal with a producer in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, and that relationship has deepened over the past 3 years along with other sourcing relationships including one more Direct Trade partner from Papua New Guinea. Ross Street Roasting Co.'s mission is to "Turn coffee drinkers into coffee lovers," and part of that entails introducing customers to high levels of traceability for the excellent coffees that they love.

Kari Ginger sits down with Julie Cutler, a registered nurse licensed in both Iowa and Illinois and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant for over 30 years. This mother-daughter pair discuss breastfeeding, baby friendly hospitals, nutrition, and Bytable Foods.

Julie Cutler, MSN RN IBCLC RLC is a registered nurse licensed in both Iowa and Illinois and has been an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant for over 30 years. She possesses expertise in caring for obstetrical patients and premature infants. Her career has also included working as a visiting nurse, clinical instructor, university instructor, and researcher while working full-time at her local hospital. Recently, Julie was the project manager for the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative at Genesis Medical Center and Genesis received the Baby Friendly Hospital designation in February 2018. Her passion is to assist new families to get off to a good start in breastfeeding and to continue to support them.

Jarek Bakken and Dr. Alex Arguello DC join Kari to discuss nutrition, fitness and their podcast Restoring Human.

The two hosts believe humans were designed to flourish and are helping people make intentional lifestyle decisions to return to an optimal state of health.

Jarek is a self experimenter when it comes to health. He was introduced to CrossFit and the Paleo diet in 2013 and hasn’t looked back since. After losing 60 pounds he has found a passion for helping sick and hurting people realize that change can in the realm of health just like it did for him. He is now a CrossFit Level 1 trainer.

Dr. Alex Arguello, D.C., has a passion for helping people like you to live a high quality of life and feel your best at all times. Being a family man himself, he’s greatest passion is to see entire families be healthy together. Since 2011, Dr. Alex Arguello has helped hundreds of patients and their families get well from a wide variety of health issues.

Kari sits down with Madie Hart and discuss nutrition, fitness, marketing, and starting new careers. In Februrary 2018, Madie launched Social Butterflies, a Facebook page dedicated to teaching other female entrepreneurs how to ignite their business using social media marketing. She is also Bytable Foods' social media consultant.