{"id":4170,"date":"2013-02-22T00:28:41","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T00:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fmf-old.abidesites.com\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2013-02-22T00:28:41","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T00:28:41","slug":"painting-the-way-to-healthy-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fmf-old.abidesites.com\/?p=4170","title":{"rendered":"Painting The Way to Healthy Eating"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vibrant colors and farming scenes are inspiring a new conversation about nutrition.\u00a0 Karla S. Chambers<\/a>, a prominent figure in the food world, is the Co-owner of Stahlbush Island Farms<\/a>.\u00a0 Stahlbush is an environmentally friendly farm and food processor committed to sustainable agriculture and exceptional quality in Corvallis, Oregon.\u00a0 Stahlbush was recently named the 2013 Sustainable Plant of the Year by Food Engineering Magazine and Business of the Year by the Corvallis Chamber of Commerce. Stahlbush is unique in that it is a vertically integrated food company.\u00a0 As the farmer and the processor, Stahlbush is able to let food fully ripen on the vine to achieve peak ripeness, vibrant colors, and full-bodied flavors.\u00a0 The food is harvested and freshly frozen on the farm within 48 hours, sealing in a fresh-picked flavor.\u00a0 The Stahlbush \u201cfrozen is fresher\u201d concept has become very popular among the company\u2019s consumers that are trying to incorporate fruits and vegetables into the diets of picky eaters.<\/p>\n

\u201cNever tried frozen until Stahlbush. My family eats more veggies now then they ever did,\u201d said Paige Gill.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur grand children don\u2019t usually eat their dinner. However they ate your corn and had seconds. I must say your corn is the best I have ever had,\u201d said J.D.<\/p>\n

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\nStahlbush has selected 6 beloved products: Blueberries, Butternut Squash, Marion Blackberries, Spinach, Strawberries and Super Sweet Corn for a special distinction, The Family\u2019s Private Reserve. The collection was hand-picked by the Chambers family.\u00a0 Each package will feature an original painting by Karla S. Chambers with a special introduction.\u00a0 The move was inspired by the wine industry\u2019s use of art to convey the message of quality, sophisticated flavors, and unique style.\u00a0 The new packaging prompted the largest art magazine, Art World News, to do a feature on the \u201cSynergy of Organic Food & Art,\u201d in October.<\/p>\n

The packaging is just one way that Stahlbush is using art to tell a story.\u00a0 Chambers paints using the colors of Stahlbush\u2019s perfectly ripe produce: deep blueberry blues, strawberry reds, Marion blackberry purples, pumpkin oranges, and corn yellows.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love color,\u201d Chambers said.\u00a0 Being able to showcase the bounty of Stahlbush on a canvas offers a unique opportunity to spread the message that color and nutrition go hand in hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s as simple as looking at what is on your plate.\u00a0 A variety of color equals a well-balanced meal,\u201d Chambers said.<\/p>\n

The idea really hit home when Chambers\u2019 youngest son Joe was dining with some friends.\u00a0 He looked at the plates of his companions.\u00a0 They were all various shades of brown from fried foods and french fries.\u00a0 The plates were in stark contrast to his mother\u2019s multi-colored salad.\u00a0 He looked at her and said, \u201cI get it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since that day, Chambers\u2019 plan to create a children\u2019s education and art program has become a serious endeavor.\u00a0 The program will use her brightly colored paintings and Stahlbush\u2019s colorful foods and resources as tools to help children understand the role that colors play in both the art and nutrition worlds.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this program has the potential to spread nationwide,\u201d says Chambers.<\/p>\n

Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the span of 30 years.\u00a0\u00a0 Art programs in schools have all but disappeared, leaving a gap in creative expression.\u00a0 A program that addresses both of these needs could be very powerful Chambers says.<\/p>\n

Chambers will be painting at Expo West in Anaheim, California on March 8 to 10, where over 60,000 people will see the connection between her paintings and the food displayed at the booth.
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Vibrant colors and farming scenes are inspiring a new conversation about nutrition.\u00a0 Karla S. Chambers, a prominent figure in the food world, is the Co-owner of Stahlbush Island Farms.\u00a0 Stahlbush is an environmentally friendly farm and food processor committed to sustainable agriculture and exceptional quality in Corvallis, Oregon.\u00a0 Stahlbush was recently named the 2013 Sustainable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[352,290,353,354,355,356,104,243,357,358,359,360,361,160,362,363,22,364,14,226,19,365,366,367,144,368,369,149,99,18,31,12,71,370,373,371,372],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-events","tag-adolescent-obesity","tag-agriculture","tag-art","tag-arts-programs","tag-blueberry","tag-business-of-year","tag-canned-goods","tag-canned-pumpkin","tag-childhood-obesity","tag-color","tag-colorful-foods","tag-colorful-paintings","tag-corn","tag-corvallis","tag-education","tag-expo-west","tag-family-farm","tag-familys-private-reserve","tag-farmers-market","tag-farmers-market-foods","tag-food","tag-freshly-frozen","tag-frozen-is-fresher","tag-fruits","tag-karla-s-chambers","tag-marion-blackberry","tag-meal","tag-nutrition","tag-oregon","tag-organic","tag-organic-pumpkin","tag-pumpkin","tag-puree","tag-sustainable-plant-of-the-year","tag-vegetable","tag-vegetables","tag-well-balanced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fmf-old.abidesites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fmf-old.abidesites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fmf-old.abidesites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fmf-old.abidesites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fmf-old.abidesites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fmf-old.abidesites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fmf-old.abidesites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fmf-old.abidesites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fmf-old.abidesites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fmf-old.abidesites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}