Dr. Ron Weiss is a primary care physician who practices on a working farm in Long Valley, New Jersey. He is also a botanist, a farmer, a teacher of new doctors, and one of the earlier mentors of Kitchen Monk™ founder Flourishing Nurse Ninja Nathanael Elijah Smith, FNP-C, DipACLM.

Training tomorrow’s doctors on a farm

At Ethos, medical students from Rutgers can spend a month learning lifestyle medicine: seeing patients with Dr. Weiss, learning how food and daily habits fit into care, and seeing how healthy soil connects to healthy people. Ethos calls them its NextGen Physicians.

🌱 From Nathanael: Learning about that program made me wonder what it would look like to raise up the next generation of nurses the same way, close to the soil, the patient, and the community. That question helped grow Flourishing Nursing and its hope of reaching nurses everywhere. Thank you, Dr. Weiss.

Visit Ethos Primary Care and Ethos Farm to Health to learn more from the source.

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This is a thank-you, not a partnership. Dr. Weiss is Nathanael’s past mentor, not an endorser: he and Ethos have no role in and do not endorse Kitchen Monk™ or Flourishing Nursing. This tribute is not a title or credential, and no payment is involved. Kitchen Monk earns nothing from any link here: no affiliate commissions and no payments. Facts are drawn from Ethos Primary Care, Ethos Farm to Health, and Rutgers University public pages, checked September 26, 2026. Educational information only, not medical advice. Last updated October 9, 2026. Corrections: rfjeep@gmail.com