🌿 American College of Lifestyle Medicine: Learning Orchard

🌱 The Plantrician Project — Thank You for Lighting Our Lamp

Power of the Plate helped light a new lamp for Kitchen Monk™ and Flourishing Nursing™. From San Diego, we brought home more than education: we brought home belonging, interdisciplinary friendship, practical tools, and a renewed commitment to move nursing forward.

🎓 Plantrician education led by Jill Edwards, MS, CEP, DipACLM, Director of Education. Explore free Quick Start Guides, Plantrician University, open-access science, Plantrician Providers, Power of the Plate, scholarships, culinary education and systems-change resources.

💃 Dedicated to Jill Edwards — our Chief Flourishing Educator™. 🌱🩺 Scott Stoll, MD — Co-founder & Board Chairman of The Plantrician Project and our Chief Plantrician Guardian. These are honorary titles created by our organizations.

Moving Nursing Forward: Read the science → Learn the practice → Connect with support → Bring it home.

Kitchen Monk™ and Flourishing Nursing™ independently recommend educational resources from The Plantrician Project. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, this does not indicate sponsorship, partnership, endorsement, or organizational affiliation. Honorary titles are ours, not Plantrician Project positions.

🌿 Leadership lesson from TrueNorth: founder Alan Goldhamer, DC leads an organization whose public team includes clinicians, nurses, kitchen staff, administration, housekeeping, facilities, concierge and scheduling. Health-promoting work is carried by whole teams. That same principle guides our conviction that the people doing the caring must be able to flourish, too.

🪔 Why this matters to Nathanael: he honors The Plantrician Project for helping keep the heart in medicine—bringing evidence, food, human connection, and interdisciplinary care back together. That vision resonates deeply with the nursing leadership Nathanael has followed throughout his professional life, including the work of 🥷 Dr. Karen Laing, whom Flourishing Nursing™ honors for carrying forward a modern nursing tradition of whole-person care inspired by 🥷 Florence Nightingale.

Our gratitude is wholehearted: The Plantrician Project has spent years helping clinicians and communities imagine healthcare that nourishes people, relationships, and the systems around them. We want nursing to stand beside that work, strengthen it, and help carry it farther.