Christy Halvorson Ross, CHC, CRFE, Founder
Thank you for being here! I’m super excited to share my love of good food with you. We are so lucky that the foods that are most nutritious for us–plant-based foods–are so delicious, irresistible, and adaptable. They can be found at your local farmer’s market, in your urban garden, or at your grocery store. With a little cooking & prep practice you can find yourself enjoying fruits and vegetables and legumes and grains more often than you did before. Your body will thank you, and so will our planet.
I love learning about the nutrients in food, and how each food benefits your body. In the cleanses that I lead, I’ll tell you some of my favorite things these foods can do for you. I love experimenting with recipes, and during my cleanses you can expect a new recipe every day, one that has been created and tinkered with and photographed in my own kitchen.
Like many of us in this field, my journey into the world of nutrition is a personal one. In 2007 I began helping my mom through what would be an 8-year battle with cancer. I believe that the nutritional choices we made for my mom, and the green juice that she drank daily, added years onto her life. I have been preoccupied with cancer and nutrition research for the last 10+ years, and strongly believe nutrition can change the course of your health for the better, starting today. My family drinks green juice every morning, soaks our grains, and eats a primarily plant-based and always organic diet. We grow almost all of the greens for our green juice in our own urban garden beside our house. We visit our local farmer’s market every weekend and are obsessed with composting. Two of us are pescatarians, and two of us are very careful omnivores. We feel GREAT and are so excited about it, and want you to feel your best, too.
I am a holistic Health Coach, certified through the Association of Drugless Practitioners. I completed certification in Nutrition and Healthy Living at Cornell University (2019) and Integrative Oncology certification at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona (2020). My initial training is from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in NYC (2012) and The Raw Food Institute (2012). I am a self-taught, enthusiastic and experimental chef, recipe developer, and food photographer.
Little Green has led more than 1,500 people through her online cleanse programs over the last eight years, and I’m excited to share this healthy way of eating with you and your family and friends. Thank you so much for coming to Little Green!
Please contact me at christyhross@gmail.com.
Marina Correa, Marketing Associate
Kat Basile Runyan, KitchKat Food Delivery in DC Area
My love for cooking started when I was in fifth grade. I would come home from school and watch cooking shows. I watched them every single day for a year until I finally began to try out my own culinary skills. By the seventh grade, I was making my own dinners. You could say pasta was my thing. By the time I went to college, I learned that I liked new foods like avocado, feta cheese and lobster. Going to college in Boston and then in South Carolina introduced me to a variety of different cuisines. By the end of my college career, I would make a huge batch of food every Sunday that would last me for the week. Many years later, I am doing the same thing for other people!
I am an avid self-taught cook. I graduated with a degree in Sociology in 2006—a degree that has little to do with making a mean barbecue turkey meatloaf. Cooking has always been something that has made me enthusiastically happy. I am grateful that I could turn my passion into my career.
The Elements and Little Green partner for several Week of Walks and Cleanse programs throughout the year. The Elements is AMAZING and I am so excited to be working with them. I hope you will check them out and sign up for their hikes, or sign your kids up for an incredible after-school program!
My logo was done by the creative and fantabulous Jackie Vann. My portrait photography was done by Kate Warren of GoKateShoot. I do my own food photography. If you are interested in partnering with Little Green–are you a healthy cook who lives in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago???–or interested in promoting our fantastic cleanse programs in other cities, please get in touch!