🌿 Community spotlight · Online + worldwide
PlantPure: the film, the movement, and the local groups it started
Watch the trailer, find a free plant-based group near you, and explore free community toolkits. 🤝
📑 On this page
🌿 Who’s who: PlantPure Nation, PlantPure Communities, and the Pods
🎬 PlantPure Nation is the 2015 documentary directed by Nelson Campbell, son of nutrition scientist T. Colin Campbell, PhD. It follows an effort in Kentucky to test a plant-based diet pilot program and a grassroots program in Nelson’s hometown of Mebane, North Carolina. Its producer and writer also made Forks Over Knives.
🏡 PlantPure Communities is the nonprofit Nelson and Kim Campbell built after the film. It grew an international network of local plant-based support groups called “Pods,” and today offers community toolkits, recipes, and nutrition immersions from its home in Saluda, North Carolina.
🔄 Where the Pods are now: In 2024 the PlantPure Pod Network moved to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and is now called Building Healthy Communities. Many groups still carry “PlantPure” or “Pod” in their names. To find or start a group today, use Building Healthy Communities. Joining is free.
🎥 Watch: PlantPure Nation
🆓 Official trailer · free · published by PlantPure Nation on Vimeo. The player loads only when you open it.
▶️ Play the PlantPure Nation trailer
🍿 The full film (about 1 hour 35 minutes) is offered by streaming services, not by us. As of October 6, 2026, listings show it on Amazon Prime Video (included with Prime, and with ads), free with ads on Fandango at Home, and to rent on YouTube, Google Play, and Apple TV. Options change, so check the current list before you press play.
🤝 Find a free group near you (or online)
Local groups meet for potlucks, cooking demos, talks, and film screenings. Some meet 🏠 in person, some 💻 online, many both. Each group is run independently and sets its own schedule and language.
💡 Example of a long-running group: the Chapel Hill Plant-Based Nutrition POD ↗ in North Carolina, founded in 2016, became an official PlantPure Pod in 2017 and holds both in-person and virtual gatherings.
📚 Free resources from PlantPure Communities
PlantPure Communities’ learning site offers community toolkits, such as launching a restaurant campaign and square-foot gardening, built to help local leaders share whole-food, plant-based living. Its main site also has recipes and information about its immersion retreats (💳 retreats are paid programs).
🏷️ PlantPure recipes may differ from our standard; check them against the Kitchen Monk Standard (no added salt, oil, or sugar; dates as the sweetener).
🗽 Grown from the Pod movement
Plant Powered Metro New York
Before founding Plant Powered Metro New York in 2019, co-founder Lianna Levine Reisner led a PlantPure Pod in Manhattan; that Pod and its neighbors grew into a metro-wide nonprofit. Today PPMNY counts a network of more than 150 volunteers, educators, and healthcare professionals across the five boroughs, Long Island, and nearby counties, and it is listed in Building Healthy Communities. Its free 21-Day Jumpstart is online, so people outside New York can join too. 🌟 Founding member Enrica Sacca is one of the organizers who helped it grow.
🎙️ Listen and read
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Independent resource list. PlantPure Nation, PlantPure Communities, the Physicians Committee, Building Healthy Communities, and the groups named here are independent; none is affiliated with or has endorsed Kitchen Monk™, and we earn nothing from these links. Summarized in our own words from their public pages; last checked October 6, 2026. Community education is not medical care; if you take medicine for blood sugar or blood pressure, talk with your clinician before big diet changes.
