Wood Board Love is a movement, a conversation, a rhythm, a lifestyle, a thread woven into the day to day that eases our stress around the hunger in our home, with those we love and inside of us too. Who knew cutting up fruit, cheese, veg. and so many things you would never think of could inspire and support our lives in the day to day, everyday.
Wood Board Love invites everyone to nourish the beauty of the board, no matter how simple the offering, everyone is hungry. The conversation with how we nourish is a story we carry all our lives. When it comes to hosting or parenting or serving a friend, just offering a wood board love without saying a word allows for a nourishing that is full with freedom and joy and intimacy from both the creator and the receiver.
We have no idea how hungry we really are… we do, do, do all day long and we forget that we have a body. A body with wisdom… that is holding us up all day long. Making a wood board love for yourself is like a party for one with all the love too. When we offer this to a friend, the cable guy or our family, it is received in that surprise like feeling. It is such a simple yet joyous act of love.
“As Jules tends her stove, makes tea, slices the fruit across the wood board you feel seen, heard and cared for. She sees who we are becoming and pours her love into the places that stop us from getting there. It’s unapologetically feminine work. Because of the way she loves and encourages you, you will never forget the way you felt at her table. ”
Mother, Artist, Friend
Wood Board Love is a blank canvas, you can put anything and everything on the board— food that aligns with your values, food you love, food that is full with ease and beauty.
In creating the board, we are making our way to a freedom that perhaps we didn’t come from inside a three meal paradigm. We are making our way to permission in how we nourish, with the beauty and love we feel in every bite.
We are rewriting the stories about not eating before dinner or finishing your plate clean and all the other ones we carry that have never, ever served us.
We are hungry— and when your kids have hunger, you can slice a gala apple, some goat gouda, rice crackers and call it a day (or an hour). It no longer has to be a fight of whether they are really hungry or what else they are hungry for or what they want or opening the pantry or fridge one more time to see nothing they like and on and on… You can get ahead of it and offer this before they say anything.
When we get ahead of everyone’s hunger, especially our own, we can be free of the stress around hungry times, like before dinner or the four million snack times throughout the day. You can put a board out, make a tea, take a shower or pee for the first time all day. There is freedom in all the ways here.
Don’t ask if they are hungry, we are all hungry for wood board love!
