Ongoing weekly vegan cooking classes using whole foods and local organic produce to make easy healthful meals. Taught by vegan chef and cookbook author Vicki Chelf in her home kitchen. A lunch will be provided at the end of each class. Vicki is a pioneer of vegetarian and vegan cooking, with over 35 years' teaching experience.

Meet other locals who are interested in a food system that is based upon environmental sustainability and social justice - a food system that is good, clean and fair. We are part of an international movement that seeks to shift away from the destructive effects of an industrialized food system and fast life - toward the regenerative, cultural, social, ecological and economic benefits of a sustainable food system, regional food traditions, the pleasures of the table and a slower and more harmoni …

Welcome to the Sarasota Raw Food Meetup group. Some of us are 100% raw & loving it. Others mix it up. We're all interested in learning more about having the most rawsome life we can. Jenna Norwood, Founder of Raw Sarasota, documented her own transformation on raw food in the award-winning documentary, opposite of "Super Size Me," called "Supercharge Me! 30 Days Raw" Watch the trailer and get lots of raw tips on the documentary site: http://www.JennaNorwood.com

After healing my body from an "incurable" disease against all odds and doctor's advise through a true detoxification process, I decided to share what I have learned with others. The purpose of this group is to teach people how to take their life back and heal from the causes of disease through food, juicing and nature's medicine-plants! Anyone who is sick of being sick, at the end of their rope with their health condition, has been told there is nothing that can be done or anyone who just wants …

Community Raw Sarasota is where you will come for raw food support, education and inspiration! Many events will be offered each month including a raw food pot luck and educational lectures. Join this group to learn about the benefits of raw living foods and living a healthier life. Bring your experience, questions and support for all to share in the beautiful Sarasota area!

EATING RAW LIVING ORGANIC FOODS PRODUCES OPTIMAL HEALTH. JOIN OUR COMMUNITY AND LEARN WITH US HOW WE CAN ACTIVE THE NATURAL GOD GIVEN PHYSICIAN INSIDE US. Whether you are new to raw foods or a long time raw foodist, you are welcome here!! Please join us for our next MeetUp pot luck dinner or special event. Check the calendar page to see the date of the next event. We look forward to meeting you! Blessings and Wellness!

This group is for active friendly vegans, vegetarians and the veg curious who want to have fun, share awsome tasty food and socialize with like-minded people in a relaxed comfortable atmosphere from Sarasota to Tampa. There is many reasons to choose this lifestyle from compassion and love for animals, animal rights, health, environmentalism to kindness and peace.  We welcome anyone who is interested in a vegan / vegetarian lifestyle. If you RSVP for an event and don't show up,  especially if it …

A place for us to come together to share our successes and concerns about how to nourish our bodies. To make our lives more enjoyable due to the fact we feel better when we are healthy. Some of us will be doing juice fast and we need lots of support. Some of us are just learning what benefits whole food can do verses high processed food. Some of us want to know ways to work with and combine food so they taste good.

This is a group for anyone who has eliminated or restricted Gluten and other "harmful" ingredients such as Dairy, Meat, Gmo's ect. from their diets. Whether you have Celiac's disease, intolerence, food allergies or just want to eat a healthy diet that makes you feel better, you can find support and like-minded people here. Making a comittment to live a healthy Gluten Free diet is a challenge. Yes thanks to the large amount of people going gluten free and the food companies jump on the "craze", w …

Raw Food Enthusiasts who like to juice, blend and inspire as a way of life!

Warm Welcome... Recently closed "Nuage Cafe, Raw Living Food Restaurant and Quantum Center" (www.nuagecafe.org) for politic reasons, I decided to stay active in the community to offer rich, valid and coherent information based on ancient wisdom and new state-of-the-art technology evidences. It is my pleasure and my duty on Earth to share with you this knowledge. Please sign-in for free in this exciting meetup group. Enrich your life with knowledge and wisdom to make better choices for yourse …

WELCOME! The Sarasota Permaculture & Transition Meetup is a forum open to all interested parties to learn about and to implement permaculture design concepts. We can provide opportunities for learning and implement sustainability concepts into our lives. We can accomplish this through information sharing, presentations and active participation in projects that will take knowledge, (i.e. that which we bring to the group and that which we learn from others), into the realm of action by engaging pa …

Welcome to one of Florida's newest healthy living meetups! This group is for anyone looking to improve themselves physically, mentally, and emotionally. Every one of us has the capacity to feel stronger, more energetic, and less stressed about life by taking better care of ourselves. It's easy to read books and magazines, and see information that tells us we should eat healthier, sleep more, let go of old baggage, live more creatively, learn new things, use natural care products, meditate more …

I have a family of five and it always concerned me when ever I saw the produce and groceries with more commercial value than the nutritional value. I always wondered the disappearance of those vegetable gardens in the backyard where we played picking the produce and home growers who exchanged/shared their vegetables with other members in the community and thus built a stronger and healthy community in the past. To bring back that community to life I am looking for more like-minded people in the …

Welcome to Naples Green Scene Vegan Posse! Our mission is to empower our community through plant-based nutrition and cuisine to reclaim their health and vitality. Our manual: the Green Scene Diet, a must have guide, the "Why" and "How To" of plant-based nutrition and cuisine.  This lifestyle presents a new food language that identifies foods as personalities naming them villains or superheroes, a creative way to connect with people looking to heal or improve their health. Graphic food villains a …

Living Healthy in Sarasota is an opportunity to connect with others who are also passionate about health ... real health! Imagine meeting new friends at one of our upcoming events, which might include: Guest Speaker Lectures, Lunch Talks, Book Discussions, Exercise Events, and other activities which promote wellness and longevity.  The purpose of this group is to form new relationships and tap into local resources that point towards ideal ways to take care of the human body physically, emotional …