🌿 Mentors who lit the way 🌿
The doctor who grows what he prescribes.
Thank you, Dr. Weiss.
Garden illustration created with AI assistance
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 Nathanael Elijah Smith, FNP-C, DipACLM.
About Dr. Weiss
- Board-certified in both internal medicine and lifestyle medicine
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
- Founder of Ethos Primary Care and the nonprofit Ethos Farm Project (Ethos Farm to Health)
- Degrees in botany and music from Rutgers University; medical degree from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School; internal medicine training at George Washington University Medical Center
- Featured in the documentary Eating You Alive, The New York Times, and the Today show
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.
This is a thank-you, not a partnership. Dr. Weiss and Ethos have no role in and do not endorse Kitchen Monk™ or Flourishing Nursing. Facts are drawn from Ethos Primary Care, Ethos Farm to Health, and Rutgers University public pages, checked September 26, 2026. Corrections: rfjeep@gmail.com
