From the Earth, With Love:

Why We Cook Everything From Scratch.

At Earth Mother Meals, "from scratch" isn't a marketing phrase — it's a philosophy, a practice, and honestly, a way of life.

In a world where convenience has become the norm, we've chosen a different path. Every meal that leaves our kitchen is built from the ground up, with intention, care, and the kind of ingredients that actually matter. Here's a look at what that really means.

It Starts With the Bones

Our broths begin with something most kitchens never see: whole regenerative beef bones from Stemple Creek Ranch, one of California's most respected regenerative cattle farms. These aren't shortcuts or scraps — they're the real foundation of deep, nourishing flavor. We slow-simmer them into rich bone broth that becomes the soul of our soups and stews. It's time-consuming. It's worth every hour.

We Soak Our Grains the Old-Fashioned Way

Before a single lentil, bean, or grain of rice ever meets heat, it goes through a long, intentional soak. We use natural spring water sourced from Red Rock Spring near Stinson Beach, combined with raw apple cider vinegar and fresh Meyer lemons from the neighborhood to break down phytic acid and make everything easier on your body to digest. This is an ancient practice, and one we're proud to carry forward.

Those same ingredients then slow-cook low and slow in our house-made bone broth — layer upon layer of nutrition and flavor, built with patience.

We Grind Our Own Beef

Yes, really. We purchase multiple whole 60-pound slabs of regenerative beef and grind them ourselves in-house. There is no middleman, no mystery, no wondering where it came from or how it was handled. We know exactly what's in your food because we've touched every step of the process ourselves. It doesn't get more from-scratch than this — and that's something we wear as a true badge of honor.

We Mill Our Own Flour

When it comes to our sourdough bread and cookies, we take it all the way back to the beginning — literally. We mill our own flour fresh, in-house, from whole grains. Freshly milled flour retains the germ, the bran, and all of the nutrients that commercial milling strips away. The difference in flavor and nutrition is profound, and once you've tasted bread made from flour that was whole grain just hours before baking, there's truly no going back. It's one of the most labor-intensive things we do — and one of the things we're most proud of.

Food Carries Energy — And We Take That Seriously

Beyond the ingredients themselves, we believe deeply that food carries the energy of the hands and hearts that prepare it. That's why we speak love and positivity over our ingredients throughout the entire cooking process. This postpartum and new parent season is a sacred window — your body is healing, your family is growing, your home is transforming — and we are deeply intentional about what energy we send into that space alongside your meals.

Every dish is made with presence, gratitude, and genuine care for you and your family.

The Bottom Line

There are easier ways to run a meal service. We could buy pre-made broth, use canned beans, order pre-ground meat, and grab flour off a grocery store shelf. But we didn't start Earth Mother Meals to do things the easy way — we started it to do things the right way.

Because you deserve food that was made the way your grandmother would have made it, if she had access to the best regenerative farms in California and a deep belief in the healing power of a home-cooked meal.

That's what we bring to your door. Every single time.

Why We Started Earth Mother Meals — And What We Learned the Hard Way

A car accident. A nutrient crisis. And the ancient wisdom that changed everything

Some businesses are born from ambition. Ours was born from necessity.

A few years ago, my wife was driving home during her pregnancy when she fainted behind the wheel. The accident was terrifying — but what shook us most was the reason it happened. Her iron levels had dropped dangerously low. She was nutrient depleted. Her body, growing a new life, had quietly been running on empty. And none of us had caught it in time.

"Her body, growing a new life, had quietly been running on empty. And none of us had caught it in time."

When we ended up in the E.R and started asking questions, we kept running into the same wall: the conventional system was great at tracking symptoms, but it wasn't asking the deeper question — what made her faint? We spoke to our midwives and they had us test her blood. They asked, what was she eating? What was her body actually being given to heal and sustain itself?

That question sent us on a journey that changed everything. We had always eaten healthy, organic food but it wasn't nearly enough!

What Traditional Chinese Medicine taught us about food as medicine

In our search for answers, we discovered the rich tradition of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) — specifically its approach to postpartum nourishment, known in Chinese culture as zuò yuè zi, or "sitting the month." This practice, thousands of years old, is built on one foundational belief: the months after birth (and pregnancy) are a sacred window where a woman's body must be deeply, intentionally restored.

TCM doesn't treat food as calories or macros. It treats food as energetic medicine — warming or cooling, tonifying or dispersing, each ingredient chosen for what it does to the body's internal landscape.

For my wife, this framework was a revelation. For the first time, she wasn't just eating to feel full — she was eating to rebuild. Within weeks, her iron levels stabilized. Her energy returned. She felt, in her words, "like the earth was holding me up again."

That phrase became the heartbeat of everything we built next.

Why this matters beyond the fourth trimester

Here's what we've come to understand: the nutrient depletion my wife experienced isn't rare. It's an epidemic hiding in plain sight. The modern world moves fast. Pregnancy and postpartum care often gets reduced to prenatal vitamins and six-week checkups. But a woman's body needs months — sometimes years — of intentional nourishment to fully recover and thrive.

And this isn't just a postpartum issue. The same principles of food-as-medicine that saved my wife apply to anyone living with chronic fatigue, hormonal imbalance, stress-driven inflammation, or a body that simply never gets what it truly needs.

That's why Earth Mother Meals is growing beyond the postpartum space. Because everybody deserves to be nourished like it's sacred.

Nutrition is a Microcosm- Part One

Ayurveda & Traditional Chinese Medicine

In our fast-paced modern world, where diets often revolve around quick calories or trendy superfoods, two ancient healing systems remind us that food is far more than fuel—it’s medicine. Ayurveda, the 5,000-year-old traditional medicine of India, and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), rooted in over 2,000 years of Chinese philosophy, both view cooking and eating as powerful tools for bringing the body into harmony. Rather than focusing solely on nutrients, these traditions emphasize energetic qualities in ingredients and preparation methods to correct imbalances before they become illness. By understanding their core principles, we can transform everyday meals into acts of gentle, proactive healing.

At the heart of Ayurveda is the concept of the three doshas—Vata (air and ether, governing movement), Pitta (fire and water, governing transformation), and Kapha (earth and water, governing structure). Each person has a unique dosha constitution, and imbalance arises when one dominates. Ayurvedic cooking restores equilibrium by matching foods to your dominant dosha and the season. Warm, grounding spices like ginger, cumin, and turmeric ignite digestive fire (agni) and calm Vata’s restlessness. Cooling herbs and bitter greens soothe inflamed Pitta. Heavier, moist foods like ghee or root vegetables balance dry or light Kapha tendencies. The six tastes—sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent—play a starring role: a well-rounded Ayurvedic meal includes all of them in proper proportion so no single energy overwhelms the system. Meals are prepared fresh, mindfully, and often with intention, turning the kitchen into a sanctuary of balance.

Traditional Chinese Medicine approaches dietary healing through the dynamic interplay of Yin and Yang and the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water). Foods are classified by their thermal nature—hot, warm, neutral, cool, or cold—and by the five flavors (sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, salty), each entering and supporting specific organs. A simple stir-fry of warming ginger and garlic might tonify Yang and dispel cold in someone feeling sluggish, while cooling mung beans or cucumber calm excess heat and support the Liver. Cooking methods themselves carry healing power: slow simmering builds nourishing Qi in winter, while quick steaming preserves delicate Yin energies in summer. TCM sees food as a daily dialogue with the body’s organ systems and the rhythms of nature, using opposites to restore harmony—cooling foods for inflammation, warming spices for fatigue—always tailored to the individual’s pattern of disharmony rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription.

What unites these two traditions is a profound respect for seasonality, locality, and mindful preparation. Both teach that the way we cook matters as much as what we cook: chopping with presence, using spices to enhance digestibility, and eating in a calm environment all amplify healing. In practice, this might look like starting your day with warm spiced oatmeal to ground Vata or sipping bone broth infused with astragalus to bolster Spleen Qi in TCM. These approaches don’t demand perfection or exotic ingredients; they invite small, intuitive shifts—adding a pinch of turmeric for its warming anti-inflammatory effect or choosing steamed greens over raw salads when your body feels overheated.

By weaving Ayurvedic and TCM principles into our modern kitchens, we reclaim food as a daily source of balance rather than stress. The result isn’t just better digestion or steadier energy; it’s a deeper sense of alignment with our bodies and the natural world. Whether you’re drawn to dosha quizzes or tongue diagnosis, the invitation is the same: slow down, taste mindfully, and let your next meal become an act of ancient wisdom in action. Your body already knows the way home—you simply have to cook with balance in mind.

Nutrition is a Microcosm Series- Part Two

When do we say enough is enough and get rid of all the things in our lives that no longer serve us?

This series will be about the various areas where we began to add through subtraction. By removing the physical constraints of modern society, we allowed room for our spirits to be enriched with the things that truly matter. God, Love, Family, and Connection.

For me that started in our home, within our family unit. Our awakening as a family stems from my wife’s and I’s skepticism about everything, (just to note skepticism, in small doses, can be healthy but it isn't necessary for the informed and intentional). When it was just the two of us, it was a lot of talking about how we feel and what we could do about the state of the world. On a macro-level, this is somewhat of a hopeless feeling. But once we found we were having a baby, we truly began to look inward and take actions with a micro-level approach.

We asked ourselves, what is the best way to bring our child into this world? My wife, having been born at home, was adamant about having a homebirth (thank God because I had no idea). Thus, began a deep dive down that rabbit hole. Homebirth or freebirth is just another microcosm of the whole, which I will talk about in this series. But this first part is devoted to nutrition because that is the microcosm we felt we could add to with our experience.

 So again I ask, when do we as intentional spirit based beings say, enough is enough, and remove the things from our lives that no longer serve us? For me and my family, there are 2 categories of foods; medicine and poison. All medicines are not created equal and the same goes for poison. Suffice it to say, that intention and the chef’s spiritual condition as they are preparing your food plays an enormous role in just how medicinal and/or poisonous your food is.

If you are reading this blog, you are probably well informed about the dangers of processed foods, the various compounds the FDA now allows food companies to call "Organic", and the so-called foods that aren't really food at all. You are likely aware of the fact that our once beautiful, rich, nutritious, American soil has been systematically poisoned with chemicals such as glyphosate and other hormone disrupting, cancer causing pesticides. If you are not informed, then click the link in this paragraph, and read a bit. Or you can simply ask us and we will gladly tell you.

The point is that the only way for us, as a community, to add to the solution of better health (spiritually and physically) for us and our children, is to get rid of these toxins to the best of our ability. Do not get me wrong, we still eat things that are processed, such as peanut butter, raw sugar, etc. but you will find no cheetos or chips ahoy in our home. Everything we have in our pantry has a purpose; to add peace to our lives. Mind you, it does not help to torture oneself fo the occasional guilty pleasure so DO NEVER feel guilty. Guilt is a subtraction.

Addition is a state of mind that has everything to do with intention and love. That is why we started Earth Mother Meals. We wished to invite loving spirits into your homes and heart one meal at a time. We, as a society, have long discounted the miracle that birth and motherhood are and we want, so badly, to bring back the honor it deserves. Our solution with regards to nutrition has been to source all of our food locally, use as many whole foods as possible, and to utilize ingredients from Regenerative Farms like Stemple Creek Ranch to get ingredients that we know are void of the harm.  

Most importantly, we pour love into everything we cook! There is no negative energy being trapped in our food and transferred to you because our experience, especially since having our baby girl, has been filled with Love! Let us share that love with you so we can grow this community. 

Be so blessed, 

Jeremie, Tori, & Chloe

Earth Mother Meals

Nutrition is a Microcosm- Part Three

  The truth is we live in a world of convenience and that is great in many ways. I mean, we practically have the entire world at our fingertips with the click of a button. We can fly across the world to experience new cultures. There are many things that make the modern world of progress a fantastic thing.

However, food, for our family is not something we seek out convenience in. “Processed convenience” is no longer for us. There are no cheap quick fixes for properly feeding your mind, body, and spirit, or those of your precious family members. Furthermore, the inconvenience of seeking out local, healthy, regenerative, and organic foods to cook a nice home meal is not about restriction or perfection–it’s about LOVE in its most primal form. 

The food we feed our babies, our families, and ourselves in the sacred window right before and after birth is about intention. Your baby, your husband, your family are all picking up on the signals and the language their mother is communicating. Your intention regarding food can speak volumes to who you are and where you are; it is said that the first 40 days after birth are not just a recovery period—they’re a second trimester of the soul. Your body has just performed a miracle. You have passed from maiden to mother and everything has changed. Your mind, body and spirit have absolutely expanded to accommodate the new life you have just welcomed into the world. Now, it asks for warmth, density, and deep nourishment

It is no wonder postpartum has the potential to be difficult.That is why we are here. It is so important that your whole self be revitalized and replenished so you can focus solely on resting and bonding with baby. 

Let us tell you a bit about our foods and why we use them: We ascribe to the Ancestral Postpartum Trinity:

Bone Broth – Simmered for 24+ hours with vinegar, herbs, and marrow bones. Collagen for tissue repair, glycine for calm nerves, minerals for milk supply.

Warm, Cooked Foods – Think congee, kitchari, stewed fruits with cinnamon. Cold salads? Save them for summer. Your digestion is reborn too.

Healthy Fats – Ghee, coconut oil, Tallow, avocado, egg yolks. These are the building blocks of breastmilk and baby's brain.

We also add in Red Meat for Iron, Beef Liver for B-12, Choline, and Copper, Sourdough with hand milled flour for Wheat Germ, Wheat Bran, Naturally occurring Probiotics for optimal gut health. We LOVE using Turmeric & Ginger which are know to be Anti-Inflammatory and lime & Lemon for Vitamin C.

On the sweeter side of things is Dark Chocolate (for Magnesium) in our home- made lactation cookies that also include our hand milled flour, Nutritional yeast, flaxseed meal, oatmeal, and walnut for milk production.

Our hope is that you will enjoy this food so much that, once healed, you will decide to carry on this ancestral tradition: not a diet, but a love letter written in bone broth and butter, passed from womb to womb, generation to generation.

Be so blessed,

Jeremie, Tori, & Chloe

Earth Mother Meals