Friday, August 20, 2010

Tasting Safari!

We are pulling together our team of Safari Guides for our Raw Food Tasting Safari in October at the WI Expo Center State Fair Park. We are hoping to serve 1,500 - 2,000 children (and adults) over the two days! Each will receive their Passport to Health, where they will record what living foods they enjoyed best.

I know many of you have shown interest in helping us. We need 70 people to help us that day between the Tasting Safari and helping at our raw food booths i.e. Blend tec, distillers, dehydrators, Spiralizers, oils, etc.

Before I open this up to area volunteers, I wanted to see if any of you wanted to help! You can volunteer or work for pay, just let us know. Vibrant Life Vibrant Child is a nonprofit, and we want to help others find great health through foods! You raw foodies are amazing, and know by living the raw food way how healthy and vibrant you can feel eating living foods as the primary intake of calories.

The show runs Friday October 22 3 pm - 8 pm and Saturday October 23 9 am - 4 pm.
We need Safari Guides: leading the tasting safaris
We need tasting Samplers - Giving out Samples at each station
We need tasting safari registration help
We need tasting safari hat making people! Helping the kids create their hats!
Then help with these booths:
Blend tec ' making green smoothies and fruit smoothies ( 2 booths)
Spiralizer - play with the spiralizer to make noodles from everything
Dehydrator - discuss and help people learn dehydrator techniques
Distiller - teach people about the healing capacities of water
Raw food demos: raw food demos!

Please let me know what you would like to do and what days work best!!

There will be a VOLUNTEER DAY October 9th. We will have a Tasting Safari that day to show you how it works with a meeting to follow. The Tasting Safari will run 1-3 PM and the meeting will last 30-60 minutes. All Volunteers can go through the safari for free, and we will open this up to those of you receiving this email as well (Limit 60 more participants than the volunteers) for $5.00 a person. We will have our NEW stations done by then! COOL!

Today and Saturday ONLY

10% off of all MEAT. CHICKEN and FISH! And check out our Dairy Free, Gluten Free YUMMY Cheese! Mozzarella and Cheddar - both shredded!

A TRUE Story

A customer took her daughter to our local hospital this month. Upon entering the examining room, a doctor noted it was chilly and offered a blanket. The second doctor that came in asked if she wanted a blanket, for it seemed a bit chilly. The THIRD doctor came in and commented on the air being a bit chilly, and offered another blanket.

Finally, a nurse came in and offered to turn up the heat!

Some people treat the symptoms, and others treat the cause.
We use FOOD to treat the cause…….pharmaceuticals ONLY treat symptoms.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Class Schedule, Lillyism on Heaven, HONEYDEWS!

Class Schedule DONE!

The schedule for the next eight months is ready! Get excited for an incredible season! Visit www.naturesgardenspot.com to download the entire class schedule. We are opening our classes to everyone in the surrounding areas, so if we get really big – we will make a mock kitchen up in our church! Now wouldn’t that be fun?! (For those of you are unaware, the church building next to the store is ours as well. We have weddings there most every weekend. Visit www.theweddinggardens.com to see!)

Living FOODS!


With all the gardens starting to peak we thought we would plug LIVING FOODS! Anyone who walks into our store cannot leave without knowing our passion for raw living foods. We hope all people can incorporate raw living foods as 75% of their diet. We really don’t care what you do with the other 25% of your diet (although your body may…) but the vitality and energy that starts to rebuild in a system that is full of life is INCREDIBLE! If you haven’t taken our raw food challenge – start today! You would NOT believe the amount of comments we receive about the changes in people’s lives when “going raw”. Remember – raw foods are living foods i.e. un cooked produce, sprouted grains, seeds, nuts, and foods made from these ingredients dehydrated below 108 – that all have living nutrients. Living nutrients create life!

What do they eat in Heaven?

The other morning I was cutting fruit for breakfast when Lilly (6) asked me “Mom, what do people eat in Heaven?” As I looked at her sweet face my mind was formulating a quick response when she interrupted my thoughts and blurted out “I Know! They are dead so they eat dead food! They eat bread and hot dogs in heaven!” – out of the mouths of babes…..raw food babes!

Vibrant Life Vibrant Child!

Vibrant Life Vibrant Child is up and RUNNING! Please visit our website www.vibrantlifevibrantchild.com and check out our board of directors. They are AMAZING! Everyone is doing SOOOOOOO much to bring Tasting Safaris and the Expos throughout the area. We are in for a treat! Our sponsorship package is almost completed, and we will be ready to solicit sponsorships. If you feel your place of business would be interested, please let us know. GREAT incentives!

Marketing GURU

We need ONE MORE KEY Player. We NEED someone in marketing! We have a hundred ideas – as always – but need one more person. If you know someone who may be able to help, please let us know. This will be a paid position and will be part of the nonprofit VLVC. Please call 262-629-4301. Thanks!

PRODUCE! PERFECT PRODUCE!


Our cooler is FULL and bursting with great produce! Local and area organic farmers have filled us up! From sweet corn to cherries, we have a bunch! We are ordering dozens of honeydew melons to give away with every $50.00 purchase. Come enjoy the weekend – the fresh way!

OUR SOAP LINE

OK folks, if you haven’t tried our soaps yet you are in for a treat! We have had NOTHING BUT GREAT comments from everyone who has used them. It has become the favorite shampoo bar as well! These bars smell great – are all organic – and you can practically eat them! You can read and pronounce every ingredient. These bars are absolutely wonderful, and we promise you will be satisfied. Money back guarantee on these babies for sure! We developed these bars to be: Organic, sudsy, soothing, made with great ingredients, and the best bars we could find…….and it worked! You will pay an extra buck for these bars, but they LAST a very long time. Having 10 people showering – we were the perfect test group! WELL WORTH EVERY PENNY! These soaps would make a perfect gift or pick me up for anyone. I just teased Rita and said I wanted another shower! These bars are a great excuse to shower all day!!

Candex


Candida has become a HUGE concern for many Americans. Candida is touted as a precursor for cancer. We will discuss Candida at many of our classes, but wanted to share with you a product that works very well in killing Candida and helping your body regain its correct living culture level –Candex. When we became aware years ago of the rise in Candida, I researched for months which became years. When visiting another part of the state, we found a small out in the middle of nowhere health foods store (sound familiar?) and stopped in. As we always do, we examined all the products, and then had a great conversation with the owner. When I asked him what he was recommending for Candida he told me the only thing he needed on his shelf was Candex. I researched the product and brought it in to our store months later. We have had wonderful response, and wanted to let you know we have the larger bottles as well now. This provides GREAT cost savings. In the time of a-thousand-and-one- Candida-cleanses, this $50.00 bottle is a wonder! (Remember to use probiotics as well! GO RAW KRAUT!)

Sewing Apprentice

This morning I came downstairs after waking up and found Rose (8) sewing. She learned how to hand sew yesterday and was looking for ANYTHING in the home she could sew! I found a few things in my sewing closet, and she spent the entire morning working on them. Sitting on top of our pool table in her Star Wars costume, she sat sewing. This was inspiring to Julia so she took out the old Girl Scout uniforms that had patches not sewn on yet and began to sew them on. Sewing and ironing all over our home today! Family life….it’s great!

Enjoy the last few weeks of summer vacation with your families! See you soon!