It’s Time to Unlearn: A Wild Invitation Back to the Roots

A new chapter from The Nomad Lasagna

The Nomad Lasagna is evolving.

What started as a traveling kitchen — a joyful experiment in shared meals and plant-based cuisine — is transforming into something deeper. Something older, and maybe… something we’ve all been quietly craving.

This isn’t just about food anymore.It’s about the stories behind the food.The hands that picked it. The land that grew it. And the quiet, radical act of remembering how to live in harmony with all of it.

We’ve learned a lot. Now it’s time to unlearn.

We live in a world that moves fast and talks loud. We’re praised for efficiency, for productivity, for getting things done.We’ve built global food systems that give us strawberries in winter, avocados on every table, and plastic-wrapped vegetables flown halfway across the world.

But somewhere in this pursuit of convenience, we’ve lost something essential.

We’ve forgotten what grows beneath our feet. We’ve forgotten that “local” doesn’t just mean close — it means belonging. We’ve forgotten the taste of seasons, the beauty of limitations, the joy of making do with what’s already here.

And we’ve forgotten that the so-called “weeds” we step over every day are trying to feed us.

That’s where The Nomad Lasagna comes in. Not just a kitchen on the move, but a slow, grounded invitation to see food — and life — differently.

There is another way. There always has been.

When I step into the forest, or along an abandoned path, I feel a shift.The land is alive with offerings: tender nettles, spicy mustard greens, cooling mint, lemony sorrel, fragrant wild fennel.None of them ask for attention. They simply grow. They simply give.

And when I gather them with care, cook them with curiosity, and share them around a table, something ancient awakens.

We remember that nourishment doesn’t need packaging. That it doesn’t need to be complicated, or expensive, or “super.”It just needs to be real.

A wild kitchen is a revolutionary act.

Through foraging walks and wild food workshops, I want to bring people back to the source. To learn not just what to eat, but how to see.

Because foraging isn’t just about picking herbs — it’s about slowing down enough to notice them. It’s about tuning into the land like a language, listening to what it needs, and realizing that we’re part of it, not separate from it.

It’s also about community.

When we cook together, we create more than meals — we create belonging. We weave stories, trade memories, and pass on knowledge that’s been kept alive in whispers and gestures, across generations.

In these spaces, the kitchen becomes a place of remembering. Of unlearning industrial habits and relearning ancestral ones. Of seeing the sacred in the simple.

What we unlearn:

To move forward differently, we need to unlearn what no longer serves us. These beliefs have shaped our habits — but they’re not truths. They’re just stories we’ve been told.

Here are a few of them I invite us to gently let go of...

• Food needs to be bought to be valuable

• Wild herbs are just weeds

• Nourishment comes in plastic packaging

• Cooking is complicated, or only for experts

• Nature is separate from us — something “out there”

• Convenience is always better than connection

• Imported foods are more desirable than local ones

• Being disconnected from the source of our food is normal

• Foraging is unsafe, strange, or only for “hippies”

• Seasons don’t matter

• Faster means better

• We need to consume instead of create

• Abundance only comes from stores, not from the land

  
  

When we unlearn, we hold space for something new. Or maybe something very, very old.

A new rhythm. A new story.

This project is about returning — to the land, to the body, to the senses.But it’s also about moving forward with intention.

In a world overwhelmed by choice and overstimulation, The Nomad Lasagna invites a different rhythm.A slower one. A more conscious one. One rooted in observation, humility, and joy.

We gather what grows. We cook what’s here. We taste the moment. And in doing so, we begin to reimagine everything:

• How we eat

• How we connect

• How we care for each other

• How we care for mother earth

  
  

Because every time we choose wild over packaged, slow over fast, real over processed — we reclaim a piece of ourselves.

What’s next?

Workshops. Walks. Wild dinners. Shared experiments. Open questions.

A space to learn, unlearn, and learn again.

This is a growing wild movement — and you’re invited.

If you’ve ever felt the ache of disconnection…If you’ve ever longed for a simpler way…If you’ve ever wondered what it might feel like to be fed by the land, and held by community…

Come walk with me. Come cook with me. Come remember.

Let’s taste the wild.

Let’s root into rhythm.

Let’s unlearn — and change, together.