Living to our full potential and truly thriving within planetary boundaries starts with food and learning to understand and work with nature's flows and cycles.



I love to tell stories and explain concepts using simple cartoon drawings as well as real life examples.



Themes include:
  • Creating nourishing, resilient, human-scale food systems that reconnect us to one another and our living planet
  • Empowering people to take individual and community action towards systemic change in our lives and communities
  • Learning to understand and work with nature's flows, cycles and universal laws like energy and matter.
  • How to build your own systems that work for your lifestyle and location from the bottom up.







Tara Naylor hugging a pine tree

Hi, I’m Tara Naylor PhD

I am an illuminator, creator and coach. My mission is to empower people to create thriving healthy lives within planetary boundaries.

My background in science and engineering (PhD related to pollution prevention, MSc in energy and the environment) as well as ongoing training has enabled me to dig down and solve problems at their root .

My lifelong passion for health and fitness (Canfitpro PTS) and food has led me to focus on creating our own food systems that fit into our locations and lifestyles that are based upon the health, abundance and resilience of life and living systems.

I believe that by creating local, diverse and distributed systems while building and sharing our skills we can improve everyone's ability to meaningfully participate and contribute.

Much of my free time is spent playing with food, from sourcing food to gardening, raising poultry, engaging with local growers, to preserving, cooking and eating.