LEWES charity Greencuisine Trust has launched a new CPD-accredited Whole Food Medicine workshop for health professionals.
The evidence-based, face-to-face day will explore the farm, soil, food, kitchen and health relationship. It aims to improve clinical outcomes with practical techniques that meet patient needs to improve health and wellbeing.
Designed for all health professionals including GPs, nurses, allied health professionals, second-year medics, social prescribers, health coaches, health visitors and complementary practitioners. Whole Food Medicine offers a comprehensive overview and specific techniques, tools and resources for simple and affordable wholefood medicine.
The workshop is a vital step in equipping health professionals to confidently integrate wholefood nutrition into consultations, creating shared management plans, and promoting whole-person well-being.
Through inspiring projects, courses and events, Greencuisine Trust works to grow the knowledge and understanding of the relationship between soil, food and health. The Trust, based in Lewes, promotes a food system that provides everyone with access to nutritious and affordable food.
Daphne Lambert, founding member of Greencuisine Trust and eco-nutritionist, has spent 30 years pioneering soil-food-health programmes and will lead the workshop.
Daphne says: “We’re delighted to be able to provide this CPD-accredited opportunity for the benefit of building knowledge and practical techniques for health professionals. It’s our mission to support action that provides everyone with access to nutritious and affordable food, thereby helping improve the health of people in the wider community.”
The venue is a purpose-built kitchen and learning space at Haymans Farm, a Wealden pasture farm near to the hamlet of Shillinglee in West Sussex. Also a biodynamic, organic certified market garden, Haymans produces nutrient-dense food using techniques based on the principles of regeneration and enhancement.
Flora Stubbs, farmer and gardener at Haymans, has also worked as a therapist, supporting physical and mental health initiatives and cancer care. Her experience has led her to believe that food is medicine and that a better understanding of the relationship between food, soil, social activity and health could enhance the work of those operating within healthcare systems and beyond.
Flora says: “There is growing evidence of a crucial link between the nutritional quality of our food and the health of the soil it is grown in. It is enormously important to us at Haymans Farm to be able to provide course participants with not only a theoretical understanding, but an opportunity to see, taste and feel this connection and to understand the implications for universal wellbeing.”
The first two workshops in 2025, 11 July and 10 October, are available from Greencuisine Trust at reduced rates thanks to generous sponsorship.
The Whole Food Medicine workshop will include:
Essential modules: food systems, food diversity for gut health, whole foods and the food matrix, knowing foods beyond nutrients, food as biological information interacting with the genome.
Practical strategies for healthy, accessible and affordable food.
Techniques to maximise nutrition and minimise waste.
A hands-on experience, including making lunch and a lacto ferment to take home,
Free downloadable resources including recipe cards for participants and patients.
A full overview is available and bookings open at: http://www.greencuisinetrust.org/wholefood-medicine. Bespoke workshops for groups are also available.
