Food and life are not separated in rural Nepal. Food is life and life is food. The farmers work to plant and eat and live. Subsistence farming is an entirely different relationship to the natural world than modern America has with its ubiquitous desk job lifestyle. Many of us easily remove ourselves from the natural world by forgetting that food means plant, land, and farmer. The organic movement embraces this cycle and urges people to understand the origin of their food. At Reep Republic, I lived these virtues and fully seek to enact them wherever I may travel.