It's becoming common place these days for people and businesses to become environmentally responsible and minimize the impact that they make on nature. Sustainability is a vastly important factor in the way that we all conduct our activities if we are to provide future generations with a healthy planet. As vets, we have an added responsibility to consistently review and rene our practices so that the healthcare of our patients encourages their long-term health and well-being, as opposed to simply treating and managing symptoms. One of the greatest investments that an animal owner can make toward their animal's health is to provide good quality nutrition. Vets have come to rely on various commercial foods to provide the balance that science has carefully evolved to ensure that all the nutrients we know to be important for health are included in the correct quantities. There are advantages to this, especially when we can't be sure that an animal owner will feed the correct nutrients and their dog develops rickets for example. However, with more and more people recognizing the impact of poor nutrition on their own health and becoming acutely aware and responsible about what they eat, there has been a resurgence in understanding what incredible value there is in eating food that is fresh and wholesome. With this insight - and in many cases a need to economize - many people have begun to grow their own food again and even schools have instituted programs where children learn to grow fruit and vegetable gardens. Animal owners are also beginning to think about what their pets consume and what has evolved is a remarkable transformation where people see the immense importance of natural goodness - a quality which can't be easily understood or quantied by science and has thus been overlooked for many years. During this time we have seen more and more health conditions in our domestic animals which are multifactorial in nature and are very difcult to cure with traditional methods, i.e. allergies, cancers, autoimmune conditions, resistant infections, etc. As vets, SUSTAINABLE HEALTHCARE