Friday, June 19, 2009

EXCALIBUR and NEW KITCHEN items AVAILABLE NOW from Natures Garden! We are placing our first order for Dehydrators and accessories this Thursday June 25th. PLEASE consider ordering your dehydrator this order, we need to place quite a large first order! We are very excited about becoming distributors for Excalibur! They are the BEST dehydrators on the market. period. no....EXCLAMATION!!!!!

Please call in or email your orders by Wednesday June 24th. Money will be due June 25th.

Fathers Day is this Sunday! Pick up some trout from the freezer and ENJOY! Trout Spread in the cooler, along with smoked trout. YUMMY on organic crackers! (we have those too......opps, the sales woman in me just peeked out.....)

NEW ITEMS: OG Rainer Cherries, OG Collard Greens, OG Super Antioxidant Noni juice, Sambazon Organic Amazon Energy Acai juices, Buzz Away products: Towelettes, spray and patches (They make patches you stick on your arm and nothing bits you the whole day! Cut one up into four pieces to use on young ones! They are GREAT!), Epsom Salts (GREAT for internal and external use! Just read our package!), Sprouted Corn Tortillas, and I know there is something else I am missing......oh well.

MEGAFOOD rep coming this Tuesday! Mark will be here to answer any questions, and you would be well advised to ask! he will be here from 5:30 PM - after the class to answer questions. Mega foods uses RAW LIVING foods to create one of the best supplements on earth.

Our class this next week, June 23rd 6:30 PM is healthy living and eating. Although this class has been advertised for children, because all of our children are presenting the entire class, the adults would love it too! Bring the grandchildren, bring someone new to the real world of food (yes, everyone else lives in the pretend world, as there is nothing like REAL food!!!!!! Hold me down, I am wicked with my vegetables!!!)

FOOD STAMP APPROVAL has come! We will be accepting the Snap program (the new food stamp program) within a week or so. We are just waiting for the fancy machine. Sorry this took so long, but they wanted to know everything about us, our store and then we had a very long inspection. The man who came fell in love with our store, and said we more than qualified. We will send another note out when he comes with the machine!

Do you have questions for our Aromatherapist? Pat (the famous one....healing herself from colon cancer and all...) will be at Nature's Garden on Monday, July 29th from 4-7pm to meet with you one on one. You will need to fill out the health questionnaire and email it to Pat at aromatherapybypat@yahoo.com by Wednesday the 24th along with your available time to meet. Please contact her directly to set up a time and receive your questionnaire!

Raw Breads coming soon! You will LOVE these treats!

Healthy Living Commercials soon to air! Yes, you read the right. I have ALWAYS wished for thousands of dollars to advertise eating fruits and vegetables. But alas, that never came. Well it did, but instead we raised 10 children! So, the time has come...... We will be producing Health Living Commercials that are FULL of spoofs and fun! These will be a BLAST and will hit the internet in full force.

Have a great weekend and support your local farmers....we have many products here!!!!!!!!!!

Karen
Fully engaged and slightly on fire!

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Almond Pancakes!!!
If you are looking for a great pancake that is GLUTEN free, DAIRY free, WHEAT free, SUGAR free, here it is! This is a recipe we adapted and changed as we went through a Candida cleanse. Enjoy! (we used all organic ingredients, please avoid those darn GMO's!)

1 Cup almond flour
1/2 cup flaxseed meal
2/3 cup chickpea/fava flour
1 TB baking powder
1/2 teas salt
1/4 tea cinnamon

Combine dry ingredients and add: 2 1/2 tea. olive oil and 2 1/2 + cups unsweetened almond milk (fresh or from a box) YUM!

Our seed packets are on sale for .99! Come plant!

NEW YUMMY soup! Our ZuZu's split pea soup was all sold out in two days...sorry! We will make another huge pot tomorrow!

I suppose it is time to let you in on our VERY exciting plan....he he he....... www.livincuisine.com was secured this past week as another website we will host! We will be up and operating soon! We will be selling our DVD's, Food Equipment (lot's of Appliances), and in a few months Raw Coconut products and Raw Cacao products, our own blend of teas, tinctures, etc. AHHHHHH we are so excited! Chris, our herbal man (Joy shares him with us....Joy is his other half), and I are VERY excited to be working together. Chris developed a really great tooth powder (herbal one) and I LOVE IT! We are working on packaging etc. So, this will take a little while, but will be well worth the wait. We will keep you posted!

ZUZU'S CAFE CLOSED THESE 6 SATURDAYS in 2009 for lunch.
June 13, 20, 27th, July 25th, September 5th and 19th.
We have 11:00 Weddings on those days. Sorry!
We will open at 5:00PM on each of these Saturdays for dinner!

If you are baking and preparing food at home, please note we have over 20 types of flour to choose from! Avoiding wheat is no problem here, plus both Sheri and I have baked and worked with many of other flours, so we may just be able to help you if you have a question. Coconut flour is GREAT to use, and Karen's favorite in Almond flour. Teff is rich, Oat flour (Gluten Free Oat flour from canada) is sweet, tapioca flour is light. Bean flour is great and rich in proteins and works as a great thickener....etc.

GRAINS and BEANS are great in fresh salads! Stock up on quinoa and other great grains for sprouting and salads! Black beans and fresh salsa are my favorite thing on a fresh garden salad!

Have a GREAT weekend, and enjoy your health!

Karen
Enjoying life outside the box! (Lot's more room!)
naturesgarden@nconnect.net
www.naturesgardenspot

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

We’re BACK! (no, this is not a horror flick…..) We just spent five days in Sunny CA! Except, NO SUN! so, I simply do not believe it shines there, except in the movies! Our daughter (Roger’s oldest) Allysa was married in San Diego and everything was beautiful! Quite an exciting time for us. Jenna did the pictures and they are incredible (should I have even doubted?!) and they will be available to view soon! We finished our stay with a reunion of the Ziemer clan (Karen’s family) and it was terrific! So if you have sent an email or called, we are just now returning those calls….

Our twins Eric and Emily are graduating this Sunday! Yes, the excitement never ends around here, nor do the parties! Eric and Emily are both heading to BYU Idaho this fall. Emily is studying world religion in her theology major and Eric plans on becoming a Dr. of chiropractic and natural medicine.

Classes on DVD!
Our classes are now being edited and are almost ready for sale! As we will be selling these DVD’s to other health food stores and book stores in the US (and outside the US) we need a name for the series! As we are selling them to other stores, we can not use our name or logo for NG. So do any of you have an idea? I would like to use my name, ZuZu because well, it’s fun! We have quite the variety of classes, some that are near completion are: Sprouting 101-1001, Raw Desserts, Raw breads, Crackers and Chips, Grilling from Vegetables- Trout with Rushing Waters, Groovy Grains and Sauces Seasonings and Salad Dressings. Please send ideas for naming our endless series on health and food preparation. My brain is full and I just can’t think!

RECOMMENDATIONS needed. On the DVD’s we will be putting quotations from our shoppers or class attendants on how the classes are presented and if the things you have learned have been easy to implement or have helped you in your quest for a healthier life. Please send any thoughts on that as well. We would only include your first name and city and state so please send your first name, city and state with any recommendation.

ESSENTIAL OILS coming this week! Yes, this took a lot of research, but we have found a company we really like! I just spoke again to Kevin, of The Aromatherapy Place, and he is off to Australia today to visit the plants! Kevin has a vast knowledge of herbs and oils, and is anxious to share is knowledge. Kevin is sending our first shipment today. We know that there are many choices for oil out there. In our studies we have found oils profess to be organic, but in reality are not. There are tight standards that Kevin holds, and the only time he calls his oil organic, is if it is certified organic. They have many oils (over 200) and organic oils now, and are adding more certified organic oils each week by making the slight changes needed to become certified. The product line is great, and we are happy to offer many new items to you. I know many have shown interest in Young Living oils, but this company offers more of what I feel comfortable standing behind. Truly, essential oils hold healing qualities, and I have avoided “marketing” healing agents on any multi level plan because I simply do not believe in multi-marketing. Our oils are affordable, and the quality is in no way less than that of multi-marketed oils. I believe you will be pleased! Come next week as Pat shares her knowledge in the Wonderful World of Oils Tuesday June 9th 6:30 PM. To those of you who shop here and use Young Living, I hope I have not offended you in any way! Young Living has much to offer, and I am hopeful people will use essential oils no matter where they purchase them from, they are GREAT!

The church building needs a new roof soon, any roofers out there? 262-629-4300
AND we are giving the cross on the top of the church to anyone who rents the appropriate equipment to take it down for a very minimal fee! The cross needs to be adjusted, and rather than pay to have it adjusted, we are just going to remove it.

Have a great week and weekend and COME SHOP! Please make our store part of your weekly shopping so we can continue to provide new products! Please keep passing along our name! Heck, our prices on organic produce beats most of the prices on conventional produce anywhere, so don’t think because it’s organic (and great quality by the way) that it’s expensive! What we wouldn’t have done to find a store like this in CA…….we felt lost!

Maybe that’s what we will do next….FRANCHISE!

To your GREAT VIBRANT health!


Karen!
Alive and KICKIN’!