This morning we had local fresh Organic Black Raspberries delivered and are only 5.99#! They are BEAUTIFUL and DELICIOUS!

The OG Red Leaf, OG Green leaf and OG Boston Lettuce from Chuck the local organic man is FABULOUS! Best tasting and best looking lettuce anywhere! AND The OG Red Potatoes are perfect and waiting for that potato salad!

New items this week: OG Yellow squash, OG Chard, OG Beets, Asparagus tips!, OG Wheat grass, OG Grapefruit (HUGE), OG Vadalia onions, Cindy’s Kitchen salad dressings, OG Liquid Vitamins, OG 1% Farmers Creamery Milk, OG Pasture Butter (Karen’s new favorite), OG Tofu, GF Authentic Foods: cookie mix, blueberry muffin mix and pizza crust! OG Pickle relish, 6 different OG wheat and water crackers (YUM!), many gluten free crackers! OG Potato chips both regular and Chipotle, GF Seaweed and Sesame Rice chips (unbelievable, try some on the tasty area), OG Fajita seasoning, OG granola in six flavors, OG Soaked nuts and OG flour, over 100 pounds of OG nuts and seeds, OG Stuffed olives (stuffed with lots of things!), and many new health and beauty items…too many to list!

Don’t Bite Me! If you wear a patch from Don’t Bite Me the mosquitoes will stay away for 36 hours!! THESE WORK GREAT!!!! JUST IN! Vitamin B Patches!

ZuZu’s bakery has been booming and our 100% OG WW Blueberry muffins, 100% OG WW chocolate chip cookies and 100% WW Oatmeal Walnut Raisin Cranberry you-have-to-buy-more-than-one-of-them Cookies are selling like…… well, hotcakes! Bread prices are between $5.25 and $6.00 depending on what flour we use. This week everything we baked was from freshly ground 100% wheat flour! (Kids job) YUM!

New price on Salmon! $9.99#! We have great salmon, and now an even better price! (We love buying in quantities!) Come try our Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon. No color added, no antibiotics, this is the real premium Salmon brought to you by the Roth family fishermen in Alaska!

The organic grapes are down to only 2.99# and organic avocados are holding at 1.99each! White peaches are worth the drive themselves! YUM!!

ZuZu’s Café Update: The café has a fresh coat of paint, and we are planning menus. We are still looking for a FT cook. You do not need to know how to cook organically, we will teach you! Hopefully we will open the second week in September!!

Note: We will be looking for a building within the next year for our restaurant, so keep your eyes and ears open. We would like a hall attached, or an area we can renovate into a hall. (the wedding coordinator in me….)

COOKING CLASS UPDATE: KC with KC’s Café has had other cooking opportunities in communities closer to her home, so she will not be teaching the remainder of the August cooking classes. It was wonderful to learn from her and we will miss her! We have exciting classes coming up, and will send out a new schedule with those soon. The nut milk class this week was a blast to teach, and I make much more of a mess than KC, but it was worth it! I have always enjoyed teaching cooking classes, so for now you are stuck with me! Attached is the new Natures News that has the how to’s of making nut, seed and rice milk!! Enjoy!!

That’s it! Have a great week and we hope to see you soon!

To good health,

Karen
naturesgarden@nconnect.net
www.naturesgardenspot.com

Our produce department is BURSTING with fresh organic produce so please stop by and bring some home to your table! With the terrific sales lately, we ordered big, so come enjoy what we have today, and more tomorrow!

ZuZu's Organic Cafe is underway! Planning the menu's, hours and layout are underway. We WANT your input! As we have weddings here on Fridays and Saturdays, during the months of May-October we need to be open Monday - Thursday. We are thinking 11:00 until 8:00 PM for lunch and supper, but I wish we were open for breakfast so you could have all of our SMOOTHIES! Thoughts on hours and dates are greatly appreciated! Still looking for more help so let us know! We are excited to have TAMMY helping us with the cafe, so keep an eye out for her smiling face! (she never stops smiling!)

We will have organic soups (some great recipes coming), a raw food section of the menu, roasted pears, and all sorts of fun combinations. If YOU have a great salad or something exciting, please pass it on! EVERYTHING will be organic, and I can't wait to share some of these great recipes with all of you! We will offer many gluten free entrees as well, so hopefully everyone will be accommodated.

Cooking classes are changing just slightly. Well, more than slightly after August! July 29th is still Nut Milks, August 19th Remains Healthy School Lunches,and August 26th Wonderful Wraps. Register soon so we can plan. We need a min of ten people for a class to be held! After that, we need to look at what dates and times for classes work best. KC will be working full time now in another endeavor, so she will not be able to teach anymore of the classes. It has been wonderful having her here at Natures Garden, but we unfortunately can not afford to have her expertise full time! I know much about the remaining classes, but if anyone wants to step in (to relieve some of my time commitments) that would be great! I am anxious to move forward with classes that have been requested. Sprouting ( YUM!) cooking with wheat, and many other basic classes for those beginning to cook organically.

Please share your thoughts about cooking and informational class times and dates. Thanks!

Some of the products that we bring in have added shipping to their costs. You may see a .25 increase on some of those items. We just could not do it any other way! We still strive to keep prices way below suggested retail, so don't worry!

Thank you for sharing our store with others. We want you to find what you need here, and hope you share with us any changes you would like to see. This needs to be a community safe place, where you know your opinion counts. If we need to change or improve something, please let us know!

And, to settle any unrest, we have plenty of room yet! We have all sorts of things up our sleeves so don't worry about where we are going to put things!

Stop in and bring home some of Natures Garden!

Have a wonderful day!!

Karen
naturesgarden@nconnect.net (the email for response)

I have studied Emergency Preparedness for years, and am pretty aware of what is out there. I will always put my faith in God and man. I have witnessed miracles and selflessness beyond measure, and will always trust that good will prevail. Call them rose colored glasses, but I am keeping them on!! It keeps me going!! Following is the link to our emergency awareness site. Enjoy!

http://www.preparingtoday.com/

ALL ORGANIC Fruits and Vegetables ::: Cherries, white peaches, grapes, corn on the cob, great blueberries and raspberries, green beans, sugar snap peas, carrot packs for the kids (with organic dressing) and vegetable mixes ready for steaming are waiting for YOU!

Tomatoes and avocados are ready for guacamole so come on in!

We have had a tremendous response to our River Soaps so I bought all the rest of the scents too! Now we need to sell some more, to pay for this lovely display, so pick one or two up for yourself and a friend!

a dozen loaves of fresh baked bread on the new bread rack, chairs by our outdoor bistro tables, and Patty smiling behind the counter....what a fun place to work!

Come visit!

Karen

CHIICKEN!!

Our distributor actually tried selling me regular organic chicken while we were waiting for our restock on Smart Chicken but I simply said...no way! We were waiting for the best, and we are back to being stocked up with Smart Chicken!

For those of you new to the chicekn world, Smart Chicken is humanly harvested, and never touches water. The chicken falls asleep naturally, then is air cooled, not thrown into a huge tank of electrified water to cool down with thousands of other chickens, like the conventional chicken you find everywhere. Yes, you taste the difference, just ask anyone who has tried Smart Chicken!

The produce today is great, the bread yummy, and the staff happy to see you! Come enjoy some ice cream at our new outdoor seating!

Karen

THANK you for telling your friends, neighbors and everyone in the area...because of you we doubled our sales all week! Even tripled them some of the days!!! THANK YOU!!!

Hopefully you have all noticed the MANY new items rolling in each day. The front entry now has a freezer exclusive to Organic ice cream, dairy and non dairy! Gluten free cones and organic cones as well as chocolate syrup and can you believe it.....natural marshmallow type fluff! We can find ANYTHING! (rice marshmallow fluff due to arrive today....)

WHOLE FOOD supplements are the only ones that are 100% absorbed into your system. Synthetic vitamins have a very low absorption rate (which is why they put such high 100% in them) so please do not waste your hard earned money on them. Please consider purchasing your vitamins and minerals from our store. We carry the top of the line (but not top price, you know me..) Garden of Life supplements, as well as Mega Foods. Garden of Life vitamins are on sale starting today!

The organic produce looks and tastes great! I just placed our largest order yet -$2,000- of fresh organic produce - and it will be here Wednesday so....get prepared! LOTS of new produce items that we found and wanted to try so......come today, and then!

New gluten free items, repellant, Izze soda, new root beer(gf) salad dressings, and more!!

Yes, the rumor is true...Karen REALLY had fun at the auction this week and yes, I purchased all of the tables and chairs from the local restaurant so we could start a cafe this fall. Won't that be fun! The kitchen is my favorite place to hang out, and sharing our homemade lasagnas, pastas and pizzas will be a ball! All gluten free too! YUM!

We are looking for a helping hand in the kitchen! (well, it would be better if you had two hands...) If anyone is looking to help bake and cook, please call me. Someone who can help PT - FT would be great! Must like our family, because we all work here......

Have a terrific day and please continue to feed your family well!

To your great health,

Karen

Today's Soup's are: Creamy Vegetable Soup and Taco Soup! Come grab dinner from Natures Garden! Soup and fresh bread....can you beat that?

Creamy Vegetable Soup!
Organic Non-Homogenized Whole Milk, Organic Carrots, Organic Cauliflower, Organic Broccoli, Organic Butter, Organic Sweet White Miso, Pure Sea Salt (with all the minerals!), and
Organic Spices (Lot’s!)

Taco Soup!
Organic Tomatoes, Organic Kidney Beans, Organic Black Beans, Organic Pinto Beans, Organic Fresh Corn, Pure Sea Salt (with all the minerals!), Organic Spices, (Lot’s! But not hot!), Organic NF Milk (just a tiny pinch)

Soups are in the cooler for a few days and then moved to the freezer,

but good for months frozen! ENJOY!