Our Story

We are making truly healthy eating easy, delicious and affordable for everyone.

Our mission is to change the face, the depth and breadth, of 'fast food.'

Our restaurant and marketplace is supplied by as much local and organic ingredients as possible. Serving classic comfort foods that we all love to eat, made truly healthy by using the freshest, natural ingredients...And acting as your local farmer's market seven days of the week. Through our community agriculture business, give2grow farms, we support local farming at home, at school and at work.

As part of our start we piloted a six week eating challenge. We have dispelled myths such as the best place to get protein is from a steak and fast food is bad for you! We have shared how fast and easy it is to make the perfect drink at home with three natural ingredients...Making really fast food in your kitchen can be absolutely delicious, easy and save money while serving to help you find your ideal body weight and optimal health ~ a great way to live life from here on in.

It is not about dieting. Optimal health and ideal weight is about eating. You are indeed what you eat, so for great health and well-being you must eat nutritionally dense food...period.

Join us, follow along, or come back in six weeks.  If you like what we are doing, tell someone you know who could use more vitality, longevity, less meds, or just general better health.  Thanks.

green2go restaurants and marketplace

Making truly healthy eating easy and affordable. 

Our menu and marketplace are fluid, changing with the season or what's available.  Every item is chosen for a reason. Nutritionally dense, delicious, non-toxic, organic where necessary, humanely raised always.  Classic and comfort meals Americans love to eat, made healthy.

The food we use in our kitchen connects us directly to those who produce it. We buy from hundreds of small farmers and ranchers who adhere to strict organic and humane practices, including our own or affilitated give2grow farms.   

give2grow farms                                                                                                                               Helping to preserve community agriculture.  

Facilitating change in our food culture from farm to fork through small community farming projects at home, at school and at work.

We are part of an opportunity to create a new food culture in America where people value more authentic, natural, local and organic foods rather than living with and accepting processed, contaminated and toxic foods supplied by careless industrial agri-farming organizations.

Join Us!  green2go is a vehicle for social change.

What brought us here:

The story of  'us'  began to unfold just before Thanksgiving 2007. Like everything else we have experienced along this path ~ the timing could not have been more appropriate.

Thanksgiving is that rare tradition that unites all Americans.  A time when we all slow down and stop to honor and celebrate family, friends and the wonderful experiences involved in preparing, making and enjoying meaningful meals. 

Living life in the fast lane has had its benefits, but the ugly truth has begun to appear in the many disturbing health statistics about Americans, and more obviously, in the American waistline.

At the beginning of this journey we learned that if we do not make significant and drastic change in the way we eat, this generation of children will be the first in American history to live sicker and die younger than their parents. This was inevitable.

There is a remarkable movement going on around changing our toxic food supply. It started several decades ago and represents the only choice for truly healthy living. It is about supporting America's small farmers. It is in the form of organic produce and products, humanely raised and family farm-identified food, school gardens, gardens at home and now, even at work.

Our small family farmers, the organic and natural food companies, the volunteers and activists, and the few politicians that have been at the forefront of this movement continue to raise the bar and set standards with integrity and transparency.   green2go aspires to exceed those standards.

Giving Thanks

As with life itself, one of the most interesting and telling parts of this journey we are on involves the people we have met along the way. We have met all sorts of individuals.

Most have made a difference and a few have inspired us. Some have quickly crossed our path, others have lingered longer, and then there are those who have been by our side providing us with immeasurable support while we forged up this mountain we have been climbing. As we reveal 'Our Story' in this way, we want to show our gratitude to those people who have helped us get this far:

THANK YOU Gabriel & Rob for being the most supportive architects ever; Dominick for being a great friend and bringing all of us to EXPO West for our first 3 years!; Johnny for all your advice and support on our build-out; Bobby for your advice, support and all the SOC donations; Tony for your undying belief in us; Tanya for sharing our vision and introducing us to M; Brunson for your time and absolutely wonderful meals you have prepared for us; Michael for all this and truly understanding what we need; Nathan for helping build the integrity into our operation; Kerry for motivating me; and our young children (Leigh and George, Sophia and Alexia) for going with the flow...so well. Tom for saying, "Yeah, I'm in!" from the first go. Ewan, for being the Angel we always envisioned. And Mr. Pie for inspiring me!

p.s. When I write 'we'. I typically mean me & Joulia ~ who I have stood side by side with, for over four years straight. I have not seen many people dig as deep as Joulia. I am so very proud to call her my good friend and partner :)  Thank YOU J for jumping on board without a second thought and for working so hard with me to make this dream come true!