Let's change the industrial food paradigm! The 100% Project aims to inspire people toward a movement away from industrial food complexes, and toward foraged, grown, harvested, and locally produced foods.
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Our journey begins this autumn when our family moves to Hawaii to embark on a year-long adventure. Each month, we will increase the percentage of our food that comes from wild, self-grown, or locally-grown sources (in that order of priority), until after 11 months, we are at 100%. Follow us on our YouTube channel and Facebook page to be part of the movement, or better yet, sign up for the 100% Project newsletter to your right!
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We’ve found a host family in Hawaii! These generous, heart-felt people ran a farm that provided food for the community and horse riding lessons for children. Then the lava came. We’re helping them to regenerate their land into food forests and permaculture gardens, and they’re giving us a place to live and grow while we embark upon our year-long mission!
We’re also looking to find people in Hawaii who would be excited to educate us in wild foraging, hunting, and ocean-fishing. If that’s you, or you know someone who might be a fit, please let us know!
Meet Our Family!
The Whitmans
Kenton, Rebecca, and their daughters Mirabelle and Liliana, run ReWild University in northern Wisconsin, where they teach mindfulness-based rewilding practices through their one-of-a-kind 4-month Forest Monk wilderness immersion program, as well as through their YouTube channels (ReWild University and Mirabelle Meets Life) and their Unleash Your Life podcast. They are experienced in foraging and wilderness skills in the northern Wisconsin ecosystem, but will have to learn a completely new flora and fauna in Hawaii
Where exactly will we get our food?
We’ll get food from three sources. First, through wild foraging, mushrooming, hunting Hawaii’s invasive pigs, and from the sea. Secondly, from permaculture and gardens we plant. Third, from local sources. To us, local means that the food didn’t take a ride on a plane, ship, or automobile of more than 50 miles.
Why is this important?
The average meal in the United States travels 1,500+ miles to get from farm to plate. This has huge environmental costs in fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, requires chemicals and irradiation to be used to ripen fruits at the appropriate time, and reduces intimacy with our foods. Few of us know the chickens who give us our eggs, have met the cows who give us our milk, or the farmers who grow our fruit and vegetables.
As we connect more with our food, we connect with each other, even as we reduce pollution and packaging and increase our health. Finally, wild foraging gets us outdoors and builds nature literacy, which changes our basic paradigm from thinking of nature as a “resource” to seeing nature as an integral part of our personal being.
How can I get involved?
Support the project through GIVE, help us forge the personal connections to make our move to Hawaii a reality, and follow our journey through our YouTube channel and the 100% Project Newsletter. Along the way, you’ll be invited to choose your own % and work toward it. We’ll provide the inspiration and know-how. You simply provide the desire to make positive change!