Gardening
Emily enjoys gardening and having her own herb garden in Lake Tahoe, CA since leaving the organic farm in 2011. She uses her farming skills and soil strategies to successfully grow plants in the mountains with varying weather. She loves having herbs on hand from her plants to use in cooking to add to foods to make them more delicious and nutritious.
Left: Gardening with Zinna flower and a bumble bee
Farming
As someone who grew up on a farm and managed an organic farm, Emily is very passionate about farms and nutritious fruits and vegetables. She feels that with a background in farming, it is so important in knowing where exactly food comes from and how it is grown. She feels that her farming experience is so valuable to her dietetic career.
Right: Winter wheat on the farm
Traveling
When Emily has the chance, she takes the time to explore and travel to new places. She loves the outdoors and venturing out to see what the beautiful world has to offer. One of her favorite parts of traveling is visiting different parts of the world to experience different cultures and tasting new foods. She believes these experiences will help her in her dietetic career to better understand how people in different parts of the world eat as well as expanding her food knowledge.
Left: Hiking with my wolf-dog Koda in Moab, Utah
Mountain Biking
Mountain biking and exercise are very important parts to Emily’s well-being. As school and work days can be long, Emily uses mountain biking and other sports to relax and reset her mind. This is also a great way to stay fit and healthy which she believes is important to being a well-rounded person. She also loves the thrill of riding bikes fast down mountain trails.
Right: Mountain Biking through a cow field in Utah
Cooking
Cooking is a major part of nutrition, where we can control what ingredients go into our food, as well as make foods that are healthy and foods that we love. Emily is always practicing her cooking skills so when she works in nutrition education, she has first hand experience and can teach others how to prepare their own meals.
Left: Finding apples in shape of hearts always makes cooking more fun!