grounded in my roots
The must-see short film is set to be released in Spring 2022. Grounded in My Roots is part of the 22 Million Strong initiative that explores why Nicolette Richer has dedicated her life to educating about food as medicine and how the answers to crushing the cancer and chronic disease epidemic can be found within our ancestral food practices.
In partnership with
FOOD REVOLUTION NETWORK
While fighting for change in the Canadian government, Nicolette Richer became aware of the growing chronic disease epidemic sweeping across industrialized nations. After witnessing a close friend reverse his cancer using traditional whole foods without conventional treatment of any kind, she dedicated her life to understanding and publicizing the message that food is medicine and our medicine is food. Her lifelong love for whole, real, plant-strong foods helped her to uncover her own ancestral South Asian and African roots, where she realized that traditional food ways hold the answers to resolving the chronic disease epidemic.
Grounded in my Roots follows Nicolette Richer’s emotional journey from Malawi, Africa to British Columbia and how this journey helped fuel her 22 Million Strong mission to teach 22 million people how to reverse chronic diseases using real, fresh, whole traditional foods.
This groundbreaking and inspiring short documentary opens viewer’s eyes to the role that food plays in our physical, mental and planetary health and invites people to explore their own ancestral food ways as a path to healing.
Watch the short film, Grounded in my Roots, here.
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BACKGROUND
Grounded in my Roots is the first of a 2-part series about Nicolette’s journey to crush the chronic disease epidemic. While this short-doc explores what sparked Nicolette’s passion to educate her family, friends, community and the world about food as medicine, the feature film - Food of our Ancestors - highlights Nicolette’s 7,200 km run/bike journey across Canada where she’ll gather with several BIPOC communities to uncover the:
Historical and systemic issues that communities face in accessing clean, fresh, real food,
How to use food as medicine to reverse chronic illnesses, and the
Re-Membering of real-world solutions to food insecurity that can be put into practice today.
CONTEXT
Did you know that chronic illnesses affect BIPOC members at 4 to 8 times higher rates than non-BIPOC members?
Did you know that 1 in 2 Canadians of all cultures are being diagnosed with cancer, heart disease, diabetes and mental health conditions?
Mission
Together, we will uncover the barriers each community faces in accessing traditional clean, fresh, & affordable real foods that heal.
Together, we will discover tangible solutions to solving the food insecurity crisis.
Together, we will put an end to a preventable and reversible cancer and chronic disease epidemic that is robbing us of loved ones each every second of the day.
What People Are Saying
“Grounded in my Roots is amazing and so well made. Anyone who knows Nicky knows that the person you’re seeing in this film is her authentic self, turning her passion into her life mission.”
— paula, 3 singing birds
“The film is very well done and leaves me on the edge of my seat in anticipation for the follow-up film, Food of our Ancestors. I’m excited to follow Nicolette’s journey across Canada next summer!”
— natalie, heart and soil magazine
“A documentary that’s able to connect the personal to the universal need for real food in the world and opening our eyes to the privilege a lot of us have to be able to access that food - that’s one worth watching.”