Sherri Pinero, MSFS, RDN, CDCES

wellness and nutrition coaching services

Trees, Bees, and Peas was started by registered dietitian and culinary nutrition expert, Sherri Pinero, MSFS, RDN, CDCES.

Sherri is a native Californian with ancestral roots that have shaped her interest in making her career about food.  Her grandmother’s family were pioneers, riding over the Plains in a covered wagon from the East during the gold rush, before settling in California in 1840. Over 20 years later, they moved to the Santa Maria Valley (Central Coast California), where they became some of the original ranchers and farmers in the area. Today, her family continues to grow crops and work in food and wine production. Growing up in the ag capital of the U.S., she has seen beautiful vast valleys and hills with fields of a variety of vegetable and fruit crops.

Producing food for her family through gardening is also a hobby Sherri enjoys. This is something that was learned as a child when her mother sectioned off parts of the backyard to grow a variety of vegetables and fruits.  She recalls fondly as a child, picking berries off the fruit-filled trellis with her friends. Sherri also learned the joy of cooking from her mother and grandmothers. The culinary traditions likely handed down from her great-grandfather who was a classically trained chef in Northern Italy, and who owned several restaurants in Southern California as well as acres of orange groves.

The combination of these early exposures to food from earth to table has inspired her to blend her passion in advocating for the most sustainably grown foods available, while also prescribing nutrition interventions that will promote a healthy body and planet.

Sherri has over 20 years of experience in providing group education and counseling individuals on dietary interventions to improve and manage various medical conditions (see specialties here).  She became a registered dietitian to help people improve their health by using food as medicine. She has extensive experience in motivational interviewing, behavior change strategies, and helping individuals meet their short and long-term health goals.

Credentials:

BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN NUTRITION - UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

MASTER’S DEGREE IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS (MSFS) - GREEN MOUNTAIN COLLEGE

DIETETIC INTERNSHIP - CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA

CULINARY NUTRITION EXPERT (CNE)- ACADEMY OF CULINARY NUTRITION

CERTIFIED DIABETES CARE & EDUCATION SPECIALIST (CDCES)

CERTIFICATION OF TRAINING IN ADULT & CHILDREN WEIGHT MANAGEMENT FROM THE ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS

Organizations and Other:

Nominating Committee Chair and Webinar Chair for the American Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Hunger and Environmental Nutrition (HEN) group

Diabetes Region Champion, Kaiser Permanente Southern California

President of the California Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Inland District

Dietetic Internship Preceptor Lead at Kaiser Permanente Center for Healthy Living Riverside for Loma Linda University and California State University San Bernardino

Sherri offers virtual nutrition counseling and cooking classes. Find out more here.

Recently, Sherri developed a toolkit for hospitals to help them create experiential, hands-on, culinary, nutrition, and garden education programs for their patients and the community. 

For more information about how healthcare facilities can implement new learning interventions in disease prevention while also improving food literacy, visit the Healthcare Systems page.