Veronica Porter was born and raised in Naperville when it was still considered a small farm town.  She caught the end of an era when you grew, gathered and prepared your own food.  It was a time that you learned from your elders, explored with your friends, and followed in the footsteps of time worn traditions. 

Veronica brings these values to modern times and shares her experiences by educating and strategizing for healthy, organic, heirloom gardening, farm to table food integrity, cooking, preservation and living life in a responsible, sustainable manner.  She is a third generation organic farmer, chef, and food educator for home and garden.

"My passion is to create community in all I do, from growing a garden, to preparing a meal, to educating, gathering and enjoying life's harvest."  Veronica Porter, Ask Aunt V 2014.

Named Real World Scholar, Gina researches, consults, and speaks on hydration strategies for health and agriculture. She founded Hydration Foundation.org to work with organizations, scientists and clinicians to promote optimal hydration for people, plants and soils. Her work advances structured water science, publicizing breakthrough findings of Dr. Gerald Pollack, renowned for his identification of the fourth phase of water. She convened the first ever TEDxNewYorkSalon event on structured water, featuring Dr. Pollack. Her own TEDxtalk, How to Grow Water: It's Not Only Blue, It's Green, identifies plants in hydration strategies around the globe.

She is co-author of QUENCH: A Five-Day Plan with Dr. Dana Cohen, MD and featured in the New York Times, O Magazine, NPR among others and is now in 6 languages. A breakthrough book with over 50 recipes, QUENCH shares the science of structured water, the newly identified phase of water with global implications. Her first book, The Art of Family: Rituals and Imagination was a Starbuck’s selection.

 

With a chorus of respected doctors and scientists, on Febraury 15-March 15, 2020 she launches the first ever, online HYDRATION SUMMIT, https://hydrationfoundation.org/hydration-solution-summit-2/ free to the public, it places hydration as the most potent, simple and effective health intervention we have. She is the originator of the You Tube Series: DOCTORS TALK HYDRATION. Her initiatives through the Hydration Foundation have accelerated research and practices in health and soil regeneration.

Among fav initiatives at the Hydration Foundation is our POP UP WATER MUSEUM: The Movement of Water, education through the artistry of Maxi Cohen; and Hydration Oasis at Ideal School, NYC. The Hydration Foundation is known for pilot projects which quickly turn into standard best practices.

Her chapter The Role of Hydration in Health and Wealth, A New Global Agenda, ed., D. Ayton-Shenker, serves as Policy Advising for UN SDGs, with Appendix on Agricultural Application of Structured Water.