Your Diet Your Health & Your Backyard

We’re inundated with bad news and dire predictions about the sate
of our nation and our world and, here in south Louisiana, the
condition of environment, which is ever more vulnerable to
climate change and global warming.


Our unhealthy lifestyles are also a problem: we spend too much
time in front of screens - now under the control of artificial
intelligence - and we eat the wrong foods full of processed
ingredients and high fructose corn syrup.


But, there are signs of hope everywhere that it’s not too late!
And forward thinking entrepreneurs are creating businesses
specifically designed to address the challenges with the way we
build and live and eat.


Caitlin Robbins is co-founder and co-owner of Swamp Fly, an
environmental design and consulting firm that specializes in
strategic planting design, wildlife gardens, reforestation, green
infrastructure and land management for both residential and
commercial clients. Swamp Fly is proudly woman-owned and Caitlin
and her partners are committed to protecting Louisiana’s
vulnerable ecological communities.


Caitlin is the firm’s Baton Rouge operations manager so is
focused primarily on the Capital Region.


Caitlin is a native of baton rouge, who got her masters in
anthropology from LSU and has a master’s degree in public health
and tropical medicine. She is also a licensed landscape
horticulturist and recently received a certificate in compost
training from the LSU Ag Center, which she plans to use to expand
Swamp Fly’s capacity to offer full circle sustainable
services. 


Dr. Katie Crifasi is owner of Plantry Café, a vegan and
vegetarian restaurant in the Villas of Bluebonnet Centre Shopping
Center just north of I-10.


Katie is a physician at Our Lady of the Lake Physician group. She
opened the restaurant in the spring of 2023 because it was the
kind of place she thought Baton Rouge needed – a restaurant where
patrons can enjoy plant based food in an upscale,
 contemporary restaurant setting.


Katie, a Baton Rouge native, is a primary care physician with a
Doctor of Osteopathy degree. D.Os go to med school and take the
boards just as M.Ds do and they practice in hospitals and clinics
everywhere, but their focus is more holistic and is focused on a
whole person and wellness-centric approach to medical care. 


Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at Mansurs on the
Boulevard. 


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