Mission & What We Believe

Forage was not created from theory, trends, or wellness fashion. It was born from lived experience—through suffering, loss, healing, faith, and years of walking a hard road together.

Michael grew up surrounded by addiction, abuse, instability, and institutional failure. His early life included homelessness, incarceration, psychiatric hospitalization, and substance abuse. By every metric, his story should have ended early. Instead, through resilience and discipline, he returned to school, achieved academic excellence, and entered both medical and technical training—eventually building a decades-long career in technology, including startups and leadership roles at some of the world’s largest companies.

Yet professional success did not bring peace. As his career advanced, so did exhaustion and physical breakdown. A devastating spinal injury left him unable to work, sleep, play music, or even hold his children. Surgery was presented as the only option. Instead, through radical dietary change, traditional practices, disciplined movement, and deep trust in the body’s capacity to heal, recovery came—fully and unexpectedly. What doctors called impossible became reality.

Sarah’s path was equally forged through hardship and wisdom. Raised with very little, she endured the loss of her brother at a young age and later spent years battling Hashimoto’s and hypothyroidism. After long-term pharmaceutical treatment failed to restore her health, she turned—out of frustration and necessity—to nutrition and natural medicine. Through strict dietary transformation and minimal supplementation, her thyroid stabilized and remains so today, with zero pharmaceutical use and only food as medicine. That turning point reshaped not only her health, but her entire worldview.

Together, Sarah and Michael chose a different way of living—rooted in food as medicine, trust in the body, and respect for creation. They have homeschooled their children for nearly two decades. Sarah has naturally birthed twelve children, including multiple unassisted home births—each experience reinforcing their conviction that the body, when supported rather than controlled, is remarkably capable.

Their faith journey has been neither simple nor inherited. Michael, deeply wounded by religious abuse in childhood, rejected Christianity for much of his life. It was only after profound loss, grief, and collapse that he encountered Christ—not through institution, but through surrender. That conversion reshaped everything. Today, faith is not a concept for them—it is lived, tested, and central.

Forage exists because they have seen both sides: healing and harm, truth and deception, nourishment and neglect. They have witnessed the consequences of industrialized food, profit-driven medicine, and systems that treat symptoms while ignoring root causes. They have also witnessed restoration—through nutrition, plants, traditional knowledge, discipline, and grace.

Their work is not about rejecting modernity, but about remembering what we have forgotten.

At its core, Forage is a return:
To food as medicine

To healing through creation

To bodies designed to restore

To faith that redeems even the most broken stories