Heidi Eisenhauer:  

Life Heidi Eisenhauer was born and spent the first 15 years of her life in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She has a diverse ethnic and cultural background with some members of her family arriving a settlers in Canada as early as 1702. She finished high school in Ontario in 1992 and set out exploring a nomadic lifestyle. She traveled with a caravan of individuals to rural settings and learned the basics of setting up a rural camp. Ensuring proper sanitation, water and community kitchens for groups as large as 25,000. This adventure set her on a course to develop and focalize rural community kitchens. This is where the initial ideas for KIND Kitchen were born. The year was 1992 and Heidi began her studies in Child and Youth Work. Heidi's housemates throughout 1992- 1996 spurred her interest in food security and sustainable community development. These individuals included Jillian Hovey who went on to found The Sustainable Living Network and Emily Collette who co-founded KIND Kitchen and is an advocate with Family Association For Mental Health Everywhere. Heidi took a brief sabbatical once completing her diploma in Child and Youth Work and spent 5 months traveling and exploring Canada. She then settled in Alberta for a brief stint and took some time to work as a child advocate while going to school for entrepreneurial studies. Journeying back to Ontario she found herself working with David Griffith at Sustenance, a macrobiotic and living foods restaurant. Thought this experience she was lead to the study of energetic and holistic healing. Her ongoing love of whole foods education and community development brought forth a group of individuals with similar values and KIND Kitchen took form in full force. Along side she co-founded the OM Summer Solstice Festival, a large scale harm reduction project. Thousands of youth converged for a week long festival in an environment that encouraged freedom of thought and responsibility of...Expand for more