Green Child Magazine
Green Living Expert & Mother
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“Authentic” is one of the first words that comes to mind when you listen to Sara Snow speak about
green living. Growing up in the 70’s, Sara lived in a passive solar heated home and ate fresh foods
from her extended family’s organic garden.
As an adult, she spent seven years as an Emmy-Award winning television producer. Turning her
experience and passion into her life’s work, she created her own TV series, Discovery’s Living Fresh,
and later Get Fresh with Sara Snow. After authoring her first book, Sara Snow’s Fresh Living, she
settled into her current job – mom to her now toddler daughter, Sylvia.
: You were raised with an emphasis on
sustainability a few decades before it was
popular. Can you tell us more about your
family’s “back to the land” movement?
Sara: It certainly wasn’t as popular back then
as it is now. I grew up in a home that was very
much “green,” in a time when people weren’t
really thinking about living in a green way.
My dad (Tim Redmond, founder of Eden
Foods) was one of the people helping to make
the natural food movement happen. Because
of that, my parents taught my three siblings
and me to be mindful of the food we ate, to
live as low impact as we could, and to not take
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from the earth more than we could give back.
We grew as much of our food as we possibly
could. The rest came from my dad’s natural
food store, Eden Foods, in Ann Arbor Michigan. Eden Foods has since become one of the
largest international distributors of natural &
organic foods.
When I was two years old, we moved to an
area outside of Ann Arbor to live in a way we
were surrounded by nature and family. There
were 40 acres situated around a lake and forest that we shared with my grandparents and
my aunt and uncle. It was incredible - like our
own little family commune.