Michelle “Ensalata” Elisburg joined the Food Literacy Project Board in April 2021. She has been a pediatrician with Family Health Centers at Iroquois for 15 years. She became interested in the Food Literacy Project when the Iroquois Urban Farm sprouted up in the vacant lot next door to the clinic. She wants children to have the opportunity to learn about health and nutrition and spend more time outdoors getting dirty. She is originally from Maryland and has lived in Floyds Knobs, IN for 16 years. She has incrementally improved growing her own backyard garden vegetables and believes that if children learn about where and how food grows, they will make healthier food choices later. She has two teenage daughters who learned how to cook and thanked her for teaching them to like salad.
