Meet your Farmacist
Margot Reisner is a natural chef, potter, farmer and environmental educator from Northern California. She has intimate experience with chronic illness and has seen how food can cause or cure disease. Margot studied sustainable food systems as an Environmental Studies major at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs New York, lived on a permaculture farm in Bolinas, CA and researched natural healing modalities throughout her personal journey with digestive disorders, chronic infection and toxic exposure. She attended culinary school at Bauman College in Berkeley, CA.
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Margot currently teaches gardening, ecology and nutritional cooking to kids and adults of all ages from all backgrounds including incarcerated people in prisons all over California. She also manages a 100 acre regenerative farm in Comptche, on the Mendocino Coast.
Margot's specialties range from farm-to-table cuisine and allergen free cooking, to wheel thrown ceramics, natural medicine making, clean living and environmental education. Her food philosophy goes beyond eating and permeates through her entire life. Her goal is to embody ecological equilibrium by having a hand in everything that she consumes.
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Testimonials
"I have lived with three chronic illnesses for the better part of my adult life. Margot sat down with me, brought me a cup of tea, and really listened to what I had to say -- my medical history, my story, and my struggles surrounding a “healthy” diet. Mostly she was just comforting. I remember feeling peaceful and as though I trusted her, which is pretty rare to find with a new person in a new setting. She spoke with such depth and wisdom regarding bodily systems, food, and diet that by the end of my time with her, there was no doubt in my mind that Margot was a healer. I left feeling both able and eager to tackle my bodily trauma in new and nourishing ways.
She spoke directly to me, and acknowledged that bodies experience different types of trauma, but that we have to ability to heal in our own time and ways. It reminded me that I have power and agency over how I choose to nourish my body. That food is medicine and there is strength to be found through healing.
She followed up later with some recipes and tricks for tackling a depleted a digestive system, as well as sending some other resources to check out. Her information was thorough, though not overwhelming. It led me in the right direction and allowed me to take control over my own healing process. I’m forever grateful for having met Margot, and the wisdom she has instilled in me."
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I have known Margot for more than 4 years. She has been passionate about food for as long as she can remember both in terms of cultivation and preparation. She understands how important growing beautiful, sumptuous, organic food is to the ultimate end product – a mouthwatering, satisfying meal. Margot enthusiastically and creatively approaches cuisine. Her personal experience permits her to understand the complexity of food, as well as food sensitivities and allergies. She has the skill to turn her garden bounty into delectable homemade food - the purest, healthiest, tastiest food she can conjure up.
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Dr. Elize St. Charles, Ph.D, CTN, MBA
Health Consultant
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"Margot's been a fiery, intelligent advocate for food and health systems reform and education since I met her many years ago. Her passion and experience slates her to be an extraordinarily effective chef/nutritionist/educator. Her knowledge of our food's journey from soil to kitchen to plate, and how it effects the human mind, body and spirit, is remarkable."
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