Retreat Retreat!

Now, that doesn’t mean run away…..It means COME! We have scheduled five Vibrant Life! Rejuvenating Retreats. We have three day (two night), five day (four night), and seven day (six night) retreats that are ALL designed to put YOU back in charge of your optimum health! These full retreats will teach a variety of subjects on raw food preparation, healthy eating, cleansing, and holistic health. During the longer retreats you will not only enjoy massage, reflexology, muscle response testing and yoga, you will learn how to do it all yourself! Heck, being a mom and a conservative woman, I look at money and want to learn all I can so I can help my own family. THIS is an opportune time to learn from local certified professionals these life promoting techniques, so you can care for yourself and your family. We will have detailed handouts about these retreats soon, but I could not wait to share the dates with you! Please let us know if you are interested in signing up for one of the retreats. The retreats do have a participant limit, so call us soon! The dates, locations, and fees are as follows:

Monday June 14th – Saturday June 19th Cedar Valley Retreat Center Log Home www.cedarvalleycenter.org cost $ 989.00
Thursday June 17th – Saturday June 19th Cedar Valley Retreat Center www.cedarvalleycenter.org cost $ 395.00
Thursday July 22nd – Saturday July 24th Shalom House Retreat Center www.aquietplacetobe.com Cost $395.00
Monday August 23rd – Friday August 27th Cedar Valley Retreat Center Log Home www.cedarvalleycenter.org cost $ 798.00
Thursday September 16th – Saturday September 18th Shalom House Retreat Center www.aquietplacetobe.com Cost $395.00
Monday November 1st – Saturday November 6th Cedar Valley Retreat Center Log Home www.cedarvalleycenter.org Cost $989.00
Thursday November 4th – Saturday November 6th Cedar Valley Retreat Center www.cedarvalleycenter.org Cost $395.00

All retreats will end with a FANTASTIC dinner and the very special individual “paper plate” award ceremony. (Sorry, can’t disclose any information on that secret award ceremony….for participants only!) Guests will be welcome to join us for dinner and entertainment (ok, the paper plate ceremony IS very entertaining…) for just $26.95.

Comment Box RIGHT here!

For the new Vibrant Life! Expo website we need YOUR comments! You do not need to include a last name, so please consider responding to this newsletter with a comment on your experience at the Expo. We need both participant and vendor comments, so please send them no matter who you are! PLEASE!! Thank you!! (By the way, we also booked the Waukesha Expo Center for March 18th. Vibrant Life is coming to you! Looking at Fox Valley area and Madison now…..) Please Email comments to naturesgarden@nconnect.net

Computer Savvy?

We need someone to help us put together our shopping cart. Is there anyone out there who has done this? We have looked at so many options, and they are all a bit overwhelming….and time is not available to learn all the details of each opportunity to choose one or the other. SO if you can help, please let us know!

DEHYDRATOR SALE!

Until Thursday we are holding our DEHYDRATOR sale! ALL prices include shipping:
4 tray starter unit – black 108.95
5 tray economy- black 155.00
9 tray family - black 179.00
5 tray heavy duty - black or white 180.00
9 tray heavy duty –black or white 218.00

Check out the prices and more detailed info on all of our main appliances and products at our store! We have new handouts~!

STARTER Organic Vegetable and Herb Plants for Sale!

This week we are bringing in all of the vegetable and herb plants that we had especially grown for us! You will LOVE them up! Emily and Eva both own organic small farms, and were wonderful in helping us this year. Each summer we are happy to sell products from both of their farms as well as my good friend Chuck with Full Harvest Farms (never had better lettuce yet, have we!?). I am very glad that these three farmers have gone to the extents they have in becoming inspected, approved, and educated ….and in Chuck’s case certified as organic farmers. THANK YOU! Here is what is coming, please EMAIL an order to us if you want some of the following organic heirloom plants reserved in your name:
Eggplants:
Florida Highbush: Vigorous upright well-branched plants. Large purple fruits with pure-white flesh are held high off the ground. Disease & drought resistant, hardy & ever bearing. 76-80 days from transplant.
Pingtung Long: Dark lavender, slender fruits up to 12" long & just slightly more than 1" in diameter. Hardy, vigorous plants are disease resistant. 65-75 days from transplant.
Casper: White variety can be used for fresh eating in early summer. Compact plants produce snow-white 6" x 2" diameter fruits with mild flesh. Peeling is not necessary if eaten when small. 70 days from transplant.
Tomatoes:
Amish Paste: 6-8 oz red fruits that are oxheart to tear-drop shaped. Meaty fruits are juicy, good for sauce or fresh eating. Indeterminate. 85 day from transplant.
Wisconsin 55: Good all-purpose tomato, great for canning. 5-8 oz fruits. Indeterminate. 80 days from transplant.
Nebraska Wedding: 3-4" round fruits with shiny orange skin & orange flesh, very meaty. Produces fruits in clusters, good yields. Plants require staking, but typically are less that 36" tall. Determinate. 85-90 days from transplant.

Red Brandywine: 8-12 oz. fruits. Deep red in color. Indeterminate, 80 days from transplant.
Mexico Midget: Very prolific plants continue producing throughout entire growing season. Hundreds of 1/2" fruits, riche tomato flavor. Indeterminate, 60 - 70 days from transplant.
Blondkopfchen: (a.k.a. Little Blonde Girl) Small golden-yellow 1" fruits with excellent sweet taste. Fruits are borne in giant clusters, enormous yields. Bears until frost. Indeterminate, 75-80 days from transplant.
Peppers:
Red Habanero: Caribbean favorite reportedly 15-2- times hotter than jalapenos. Plants 36: tall & produce enormous amounts of fruits. 90-100 days from transplant.
Beaver Dam: Crunchy fruits are mildly hot when seeded (3 out of 5 in hotness.) Larger fruits. 80 days from transplant.
King of the North: Best bell pepper for northern gardeners where seasons are cool & short. Blocky fruits with sweet flavor. 70 days from transplant.
Chervena Chushka: Bulgarian heirloom traditionally used for roasting, but also a great sweet pepper. Flesh is bright-red a & very sweet, almost candy-like. Tapered fruits are 2" at the shoulder by 6" long, ripen from green to brown to red. 85 days from transplant.
Aji Cristal: 1" by 3 1/2" fruits on large 3' plants. Waxy fruits ripen light green to yellow to light reddish-orange. Excellent hot citrus flavor is best when immature, great for salsa (especially green sauce.) 90 days from transplant. (4 out of 5 in hotness.)
Celery, Red leaf lettuce and Green Leaf lettuce
Herbs:
Flat Parsley, Borage, Yarrow – white, German Chamomile, Chervil, Lemon Balm, St. Johns wort, Greek Oregano, Feverfew, Lovage, Sage ( culinary), Anise Hyssop, Catmint, Basil and Epazote: Fresh leaves are ground or crushed for seasoning corn, beans (often black beans) & sauces used in Mexican dishes. Medicinal: A strong tea rubbed on the skin repels insects & reduces irritation from insect bites. Also helps reduce flatulence from beans & relieves indigestion.

Upcoming Classes:

This Thursday: The RAW kitchen! Learn how to set up and use your raw kitchen to the MAX! This is GREAT class for anyone just entering our world of living foods. You can be a person who eats 10% - 90% raw foods and still learn something new so COME! This class will be taught by Cassie and Chad, as I will be at West Bend Mutual Insurance Company giving the Living with Energy presentation….do you think I need to behave in an insurance building?  nahhh

The Third Tuesday – May 18th is our Living with Energy Class! Join us for an entertaining look at YOUR body! Bring friends, family, foes, it doesn’t matter just COME learn why FOOD Matters!

Photography BOOT CAMP

As many of you know, we have a few children…..ok, more than a few… and here on this exciting newsblast you often get to here about them! Well what do you expect? We are a family business you know! Jenna our oldest daughter has been taking pictures professionally since she was 16. She is an amazing photographer and you can see that for yourself at www.jennajuliane.com. She has been allover the country taking seminars and working with the top photographers in the world. You will see that quality and art in her work. As her passion grows she wants to share it so here you go! YOU get to come and tap her amazing brain in her five hour “Ultimate Photography Training Seminar” BOOT camp July 17th 3:0 Pm – 8:00 pm for only $59.00! Ya HOOOO! (I am coming because I can’t shoot anything! Do I need to pay????)

Check out her website www.jennajulianne.com for details and invite your friends or ANYONE who wants to improve their photography skills. She may be our daughter….. but she is AMAZING!