Today’s Mother of the Day in May 2025 is Sally Fallon Morrell. She is an amazing woman!

Who is she? What makes her so amazing? She’s a wife, mother, author, blogger, researcher, nutrition expert, community builder, nonprofit foundation organizer, presenter, teacher, lecturer, and farmer. Most of all, she is a truth seeker. I have been so blessed by her seeking for truth.

Here are some of the books she’s written, below.

She is best known for her first book, shown above. It is a cookbook that launched a revolution in people turning back to ancestral, real foods.

This last book is her response to the plandemic. It’s so interesting!

She’s so prolific! She has followed the path of seasonal motherhood that I recommend, which is to raise your family and then focus on other, out-of-the-home activities. As a graduate of Stanford, she is no slouch when it comes to academic credentials.

Have you ever heard of the back story of her first book, Nourishing Traditions? I recently read about it from the newsletters of one of her friends, Kelly the Kitchen Kop. (Sign up for that here.)

“Many years ago I was invited to my son’s 6th grade class to make cookies with them. When I got there with all my natural ingredients, all they wanted me to do was slice cookie dough–they thought making cookies was too complicated for the kids. I was angry and thought, ‘these kids are capable of real cooking!’
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“So I proposed to teach a class in French cooking in the church kitchen. I had about 10 kids and we did 6 classes. I made a little notebook for them which was the genesis of Nourishing Traditions.
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“I didn’t make it easy. We did quiche with homemade crust. We made chicken, beef and fish stock and made reduction sauces. We made poached salmon with sorrel sauce, beef stew, chicken with cream sauce, steamed vegetables with butter. The kids LOVED it, and they ate every morsel.
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“I remember hating home-ec classes because they were so silly, we never did anything real. Kids of this age love to cook if you show them how! Needless to say, the adults at the school–teachers and administrators–were not the least bit interested.” (copied and pasted from Kelly’s newsletter, go here to sign up for it.)

I just love that story! It shows that sometimes the germ of a mother’s great idea which benefits so many comes from doing something with and for her child and/or other children. That cookbook is now the Cadillac of cookbooks. It’s like Julia Child meets Ralph Nader. The juicy tidbits in the sidebars showing the evils of the modern commercial food industry with stories are so intellectually delicious!

Oh and I just remembered, she has one more book, about broth! Don’t you just love the work of the illustrator for the covers of most of these books? Go to amazon or her website here to get the books. (I receive no remuneration if you buy them.)

Some of my favorite videos of her are below.

First, her introduction to the Weston A. Price Foundation, the organization she founded after discovering the work of Dr. Weston A. Price, a dentist who studied nutrition and physical degeneneration.

Second, “The Oiling of America.” It’s so important to learn what she teaches in this! She speaks truth! Just check out other books like Sugar, Salt Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us to learn about the corruption of the food industry. It’s all about money, not good nutrition!

Third, how to fix oatmeal so that it is the most digestible.

Then here’s an intro to her farm in Maryland. One of my girlfriends got to tour it several years ago one summer with her whole family. I’m so jealous! It’s so remarkable that Sally walks the walk of her talk by having her own farm so she can know intimately what goes into her food.

She is a huge proponent of raw milk. Learn the truth about that below.

Lastly, how to eat during pregnancy so you have the healthiest baby possible.

You can see the results of babies whose moms ate this way here. (This book mentioned here is a good primer for encapsulating Sally’s teachings during pregnancy and early motherhood.)

Want more of Sally? Check out her blog here. I agree with her information in this post here about how she can prove that the earth is round, not flat. It’s very informative! The site of WAPF here. It’s a goldmine of nutritional and healing truths!

I also have her in a video over here with a panel of other women talking about nutrition for babies and toddlers.

She’s coming to Salt Lake City, UT for the 2025 Wise Traditions conference. It’s the premiere conference on nutrition in the world. Go here to learn more!

I hope you enjoy learning from Sally, the mother of the true “health food” movement. She has helped many, many people reverse cavities and heal from other health challenges. She has also influenced many natural health mommy bloggers, including Sarah Pope of thehealthyhomeeconomist.com, Katie Wells of wellnessmama.com, and Kristen Michaelis of foodrenegade.com. Sally’s flagship book, Nourishing Traditions, has shown that for decades, the American public was hoodwinked into thinking that animal fats are evil. Thanks in part to her and her co-author Mary Enig, PhD, we now know that sugar, especially as refined carbs, is the cause of heart disease! Thank you, Sally, for your pioneering work in returning us to ancestral nutrition. She is truly a living national treasure!