Food for the Ark

Chapter Three

The Blue Zones

Annie and LJ are a fictional couple introduced to the readers of the Healthy Healing Eats blog in January 2020. Their storyline promotes healthy eating and earth-friendly practices.

The rain started all over.

After living on the Ark through 500 days of rainfall and watching earth disappear beneath the deluge, Annie and LJ had welcomed the sight of a clear sky. It lasted only three months. Now it was raining once more.

Life on earth ended in 2020 when climate change reached a tipping point, the South Pole glaciers melted rapidly, creating intense nonstop storms.

Years earlier, in anticipation of the global catastrophe, the couple began working with environmentalists building massive arks. Because of their relationship with the International Seed Vault, they were assigned the Ark of Seed Agriculture, which became the new home to over 930,000 seeds that represented the word’s entire biodiversity. Now they were responsible for protecting the seeds that one day would be used to replant earth.

Living on an ark was grueling, only the most stalwart and healthiest could survive. Adjusting to this new life, knowing that nearly all of humanity was gone and they likely would never walk on earth again was severe enough — every day started with…