Our Story

The kids are gone, let’s have some fun.  Oh look, something shiny!  

I’ve never been one for planning. This has resulted in a kind of messy but interesting life. I met Tim when we were both in college and working at Ernie’s. We fell for each other fast and got married eight weeks later on top of the parking garage across the street from the courthouse. In the past thirty years, we’ve fought forest fires and house fires. We’ve worked in the death industry - Gina as a Medicolegal Death Investigator & Tim as a Tissue Procurement Specialist. We’ve had a couple of amazing kiddos. We ran our own remodeling company and we’ve worked in the corporate world.   

Let’s back up to that having kiddos part for a sec! The kids changed my perspective on everything. Suddenly I saw the world in a completely different way and wanted to do all I could to live sustainably in hopes of making the world a better place for my kids. I decided to raise my kids as ‘low car’ as possible - That meant schlepping them around St Louis to playdates in a bike cart when they were little. We chose a centrally located home when we moved to Columbia so we could bike to school, to friends’ houses, shopping, lessons, camping - you name it and, we’ve probably biked there. When Tim and I had our construction business, I had a cargo bike to haul my tools. I tried to convince Tim to do the whole construction business by bike, but he insisted on using a truck…you can’t win them all.   

While I thought I was being really sustainable biking with my kids, I had no idea what a huge impact our food choices have on the environment, our health and others. I thought that food was just fuel for my bike and it didn’t matter if it was Coke and Milk Duds or beans and rice. As I learned more about how our food choices affect the environment and our health, I started making big changes.  - See our food philosophy for more on that

Now the kids are grown and we’re starting our next adventure - a vegan food truck to share healthy, delicious and familiar foods that reduce the impact of our food system on ourselves, each other, the animals, and our Earth.