About Patty Holden

Former pro-ballroom dance instructor, now a food anthropologist and nutritional therapist. 

Bachelor in Humanities/Religious Studies (honors in the Major)  

Master in Anthropology/Ancient Maya

I teach guest classes at local colleges, religious organizations, women’s groups, private resident homes, for local sheriff employees and at my own home, discussing medicine wheels, food as medicine and ancient traditional world-views about health and food.

The inspiration behind Traditional Lifestyle Creations was the 2-acre homestead of my great-grandparents, Mr and Mrs Joe Hibbard, who lived in a small town called Van Buren, Arkansas.  They grew their own vegetables, preserved sauerkraut, purchased bags of flour, sugar, salt and beans a few times each year with whatever they had saved, made their own lard from pigs they raised, had their own chickens and a milk cow.  Mr Hibbard operated a sawmill, never ate breakfast and took a biscuit with lard to work for lunch.  They were poor, but they never went without food and they were robustly healthy.  It was a different way of life that we strive to re-connect with, although we don’t really eat biscuits and lard for lunch around here! 

Traditional Lifestyle Creations is my way of combining the best of the old ways with the best of the new so that the future is preserved in a healthier way, just like our fermented vegetables!  

I hope you enjoy our healthy foods and can participate in our food-as-medicine classes!