Learn to be resilient through gardening & integrated wellbeing practices.

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life’s too short to delay Happiness & resilience

Apartment living, a new home, and personal challenges can all trigger a desire to
dig your fingers in the soil to prepare for the unknown. For those wanting more. To slow things down. To be resilient.

From the Farmstead

DESIGN + STEP-BY-STEP
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

Plants and goods for long-term, everyday use.

The plant offerings focus on fruit trees and complementary guild plantings, as used in permaculture and food forest systems. We also provide annual plants with proven health benefits, such as tangerine tomatoes, Asian purple sweet potato slips, and Chinese Pink Celery amongst other curated varieties. These are selected with the understanding that plants do better in relationship to one another, and so do we.

Also available:

  • Alpha-gal friendly laundry soap, made without mammalian-derived ingredients
  • Hand-illustrated greeting cards, including:
    • Traditional Gnomes for the holidays & springtime
    • Pen and ink animal illustrations
    • Mixed media graphite work (cats, books, and hot drinks)
    • Garden photography
    • Seasonal and winter holiday cards

Winter months on the farmstead are quieter. When the greenhouse rests, that time shifts toward drawing, study and preparation for the spring, and creating small-batch production laundry soaps and hand-crafted goods in the studio.

EXPLORE THE FARMSTEAD

Sartoria Health & wellbeing

THE ART OF FOOD
THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE

Tailored health support, grounded in lifestyle medicine.

This work is built around The Sartoria Health & Wellbeing Program is a method to approach lifestyle change in a 12-week, in-person and correspondence-based program designed for small groups that meet bi-weekly. Anyone interested can participate, although those who may find the most benefit are experiencing one, or more, chronic health conditions such as Type 2 Diabetes.

It brings together:

  • The six pillars of lifestyle medicine:
    • Food & nourishment
    • Physical activity
    • Sleep
    • Stress management
    • Social connection
    • Avoidance of risky substances

Rather than moving quickly or relying on digital tools, the structure is intentionally slower. Participants meet in person and receive mailed letters every two weeks when not meeting in person.

We move towards our individuals goals together, at the speed of life.

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Speaking & Events

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Out & About

Interview on WFHB’s Eco-Report, part one

Jami is interviewed by Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze. He talks to her about about local food production, urban agriculture, food as medicine, and sustainable business practices.

Interview on WFHB’s Eco-Report, part Two

Jami’s interview by WFHB’s Environmental Correspondent, Zyro Roze, continues. They discuss local food, urban agriculture, food as medicine, and sustainable business practices.

Interview on WFHB’s Eco-Report, The Complete Interview

WFHB Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze explores issues relating to local urban agriculture and government policy with Jami Scholl of Rezenience, a permaculture consultancy firm growing nutriceutical plants and produce in Bloomington, Indiana.

Roze and Scholl discuss new research and options for optimal health and nutrition, challenges for local food security, shortfalls in disaster preparedness, local impacts of climate change, and strategies for resilience amidst environmental disruptions affecting the sustainability of food systems worldwide.

What’s the Difference Between
Wellness & WellBeing?

When we talk about health, the words wellness and wellbeing tend to be used interchangeably, but they point to two different parts of the same picture.

Wellness is your physical health, what you can feel and measure day to day, and whether you have the energy and ability to move through your life in a way that works for you. It’s supported by a few core habits. How you eat. How you move. How well you sleep.

Over time, when those are out of balance, we tend to see the same patterns emerge. Heart disease. Type 2 diabetes. Obesity.
Other chronic conditions that develop gradually, then all at once.

Wellbeing is broader, and often quieter. It includes your physical health, but also your environment, your routines, your relationships, and your sense of purpose. It’s what shapes whether healthy choices feel possible, or feel like a constant uphill effort. In lifestyle medicine, we look at six areas that consistently support wellbeing:

  • Food.
  • Movement.
  • Sleep.
  • Stress.
  • Substances.
  • Connection.

They don’t work in isolation. They reinforce each other, and they shift together over time. Perhaps most importantly to know is that there isn’t one perfect way to do any of this. Cultural traditions matter. Where you live matters, and what’s available to you in your immediate environment matters.

When those are taken into account, change becomes more realistic. More sustainable, more your uniquely your own. Leading to being able to sustain change, and greater wellbeing, over time. No more yo-yo dieting, mid-afternoon sleepiness because we address wellness and wellbeing together. Support the body. Shape the environment. Build the habits that hold.

That’s where real sustainable change occurs.