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August 2022CPAND Spring Meeting, April 29th from 12-3 pm at the Windswept Farm and RE Farm Cafe in State College, PA
Join us for our spring meeting. At this meeting we will be taking a tour of Windswept Farm and learning about their business model that emphasizes farm to table. We will then be enjoying a delicious meal in the RE Farm Cafe, prepared in front of us! And finally we will be hearing from Tomi Dreibelbis, a Culinary Medicine Professor for Penn State University. Tomi's lecture is "Mixing Nutrition into Health Professional Education: Enhancing Culinary Medicine Curricula by Building Intuitive Community Partnerships.
We hope to see you there! If you have any questions please email Meghan Zook at meghanraezook@gmail.com and Andrea Reed at andrealynnreed@gmail.com
Nikita Grove, MS, RDN, LDN, RYT is an entrepreneur, yogi, farmer, and local-food enthusiast! As a dietitian and yoga instructor, she owns and operates The Wellness Grove LLC providing nutrition counseling and yoga classes. Nikita grew up on her family farm in Marietta located in Lancaster County, PA where she first learned to appreciate the foundations of food, soil, and farming. After living in Philadelphia for the last several years, Nikita and her husband, a young adult cancer survivor, have returned back to their farming roots to help others cultivate a healthy relationship with food while also hosting wellness retreats to support cancer survivorship.
Sophie Stambaugh is from York, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Messiah University in December 2022 and is now completing her dietetic internship with the Keith and Associates Distance Dietetic Internship (KADDI). Upon graduation in August 2023, Sophie hopes to pass the CDR exam and find a job at an eating disorder treatment center. Her areas of interest include eating disorders, intuitive eating, and Health At Every Size dietetics.
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