Thursday, September 2, 2010

Classes Start TONIGHT!

Join us in our NEW Fancy Class Kitchen! As our classes are videotaped, available on-line and will be made available live in the future, we thought we would add some color and class. New paint, new cabinets, new lighting! Now, I DON’T decorate (we just get by), so we could use some finishing touches! Feel free to offer suggestions and help on that one!

Class tonight: Preserving the Garden: FRESH. Fruit roll ups, refrigerator pickles, canning applesauce, canning and freezing tomatoes, beans, pears and making fresh grape juice! You will enjoy the samples and learning how easy it is to put up your garden….and your neighbors’ garden too!

NOTE: Our classes are for everyone. If you are unable to attend due to finances, please let us know. You can help clean up afterward, prepare, or in other ways “pay” for the class. We do NOT want you to stay home because of money matters. That is not how we operate here at Nature’s Garden, as we will not turn people away because they can not afford to come. How awful that would be!

20-25 # Tomato Flats $18.00

Pre order your flats of local certified organic tomatoes! Please call in your order to 629-4300 and start canning today!. Thanks for the deal Chuck! Full Harvest Farm, we LOVE their produce (and so do you….we sell it in our store while in season!)

Non GMO Crusade

After the new information released these past few weeks with MORE studies and information on Bio Technology, we have decided to remove ALL products that have any GMO ingredients. Thus, we may very well be one of the first stores in WI, or America, with NO GMO’s. I have never been in a health food store or store anywhere that has made this claim, because it is hard to do! You will find a few products in the clearance section that hid their GMO’s quite well. We have been very careful to not have them, but they are in our store. At the same time we are looking for products to replace them. We can always make even more of our own organic products, but we lost our kitchen manager thanks to Roger! He set her up with a man who shops at our store and wala! They ran away together! So happy and sad are we at the same time……

Please suggest items you would like us to sell, or make. If you have time and want to spend a few hours doing some research on products for us, come on in. We want to offer you great healthy products, so please contribute ideas!

Co-Op

We have been tossing around the idea of making our health food store a large co-op. These types of stores are scattered around the US, and we are looking at becoming one of them. However, we have no idea if that would take here in Wisconsin. We want your feedback. We will have a meeting to discuss this possibility on Tuesday September 14th at 7:00 PM. Please RSVP so we know who is attending. All are welcome! A few features of a Co-op: Lower pricing on products, more local products, more bulk offers and orders, each adult in a family works 4-6 hours a month, and small if any yearly dues. We could offer bulk on produce as well, organic and non-organic, as well as get local farmers involved. Thoughts?

A Story that will make you SMILE!

We took the children to Wind Lake to see where I grew up last week. We visited the old home, the lake, the bike trails, and Heg Park. We then went to see the church I attended when growing up, St. Clares. They had built a new church, and where my old church was stood a MOUNTAIN SIZE pile of gravel. Lilly, our six year old, gently took my hand upon entering the new church and said in a quiet voice, “Mommy, I am sorry they ground up your church….”

If Your Home Was on Fire, Would You Call a Carpenter or a Fireman?

(I found this analogy and wanted to share it!)
If you want the fire out, you would call the firemen. They would come and soak your home with water, perhaps kick in a door or two and smash a few windows. Within time, the fire would be out. Then, you would call the carpenter. The carpenter would know how to fix the doors, walls, windows, floors and lay new carpeting. He could even make the home more prepared, by making sure fire alarms were set and working. If he had the correct knowledge, he would apply fire protection to your home. Analogy: Allopathic doctors (medical doctors who treat with pharmaceuticals) are the fireman. They can put a fire out, but the medications and treatments they use often leave their unnatural mark and toxic medications can be prescribed for years if not for life. Holistic Health Care and Naturopaths are the carpenters. They rebuild the body and help make them fireproof. They know what starts fires, and can build the body so these triggers are not pulled. They use foods, herbs, vitamins and minerals to do so. These are safe and natural.

Please build up your body and “fire proof” it by using the best foods. You CAN have a disease resistant body, and great immunity. Want to learn how? Attend our classes and just ask!

We believe life begets life and organs are needed in the body. We help people avoid ever having them removed. Cancer is a fungus, and can be fought, stopped and many times wiped out completely, even if on deaths’ bed. Diabetes (Type II) can be cured with food alone. WE HAVE SEEN THIS HAPPEN within weeks! ADD, ADHD, Acid Reflux, Arthritis, Low libido, you name it! ALL ailments are helped with proper tasty life-promoting foods. Can it really be that easy? YES! But changing a diet and ones’ eating habits is not an easy thing to do, unless they believe the changes will make a difference. We are here to assure you they WILL make a difference!

EXPO UPDATE

We met our designer and had a big meeting at the WI Expo Center at State Fair Park yesterday. We will be able to serve 1,500 children and adults at the Tasting Safari. We will be sending flyers home to thousands of Milwaukee and surrounding county area school children in a few weeks, so reserve your spot soon!

We will have an area at the expo amongst the hundreds of exhibitors for key note speakers as well as dance/yoga/martial arts demonstrations. Our four seminar rooms are quite classy and we are VERY excited for you to see who we have speaking thus far!

We will begin sending out expo information and updates to our Expo Group. If you wish to receive detailed Expo updates in the near future, please sign up for those newsletters at our website www.naturesgardenspot.com or www.vibrantlifevibrantchild.com . You can also becoming a fan on Facebook! Thanks Jenna for getting our fan page up!

We are in need of one more person to help make phone calls for the Expo and Milwaukee area Health Directory. You may do this from your own home, and must have an energetic personality and excitement for the expo! This is an enjoyable position, as so many have not heard of what we are doing and get VERY excited. Please call 629-4301 and speak to Rita if interested.

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!

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Living With Energy!

Last night I was working in the store until 12:15 AM (I suppose that makes it this morning….) re-arranging and making the entry a bit more “charming”. I went home and enjoyed a delicious pizza (our gluten free Ziemer Tradition that we make) with my daughter Jenna and hung out with Roger II and his adorable GF (teen lingo for girl friend) until 1 am. As my husband and 4 younger girls were off camping for the night, I read until 1:30 AM and decided to sleep. Finally, a night of uninterrupted sleep. BUT I was awake by 5:30! I was just too DARN excited about another great day and….I HAD TOO MUCH ENERGY! What better day to teach the energy class than today! (if I am still awake..)

Come join us for our monthly presentation Living with Energy Tonight at 6:30 PM! ALL YOUTH 18 and younger FREE! Everyone else is a whopping $5.00. See you then! GREEN drinks provided afterwards. THREE flavors………yum!

Monday, July 12, 2010

Last Week!

There are five more shopping days left to enter the drawing for a $75.00 Gift certificate! For every $100.00 you spend you can enter to win! Please bring in your receipts July 16, 17, 18 or 19 and let us tally them up and enter you to win! Our amazing whole body cleanse kit is going to remain on sale for $199.00 this week because we have a few left. This is a wonderful kit and you cannot help but feel better inside and out! EVERYONE we know who has used this kit has had wonderful results.

Saturday’s Concert

This coming Saturday we have the GREAT honor of having my al time favorite musical group coming to our place for a concert! Kettle Moraine Musicians are WONDERFUL and you will enjoy their music. Visit them at www.kettlemorainemusicians.com for a preview. They will play from 7-? out in our gardens. We have ample seating, so come enjoy! We were going to offer a pasta dinner on Saturday as well, but have not had the required 60 responses to do so. Oh well! Let’s enjoy a terrific evening of music! Popcorn, drinks and light snacks will be available! YUM!

Convenience

My daughter asked me for ideas to talk about at an upcoming church camp. My immediate response was Convenience. If it isn’t easy it isn’t often done. Every aspect of human life is now affected by one word……convenience: food, jobs, transportation, relationships and even service. Of course, being a church camp, she will focus on service to others needing to become a priority….instead of a convenience. HOWEVER you did not sign up for newsletters preaching service, although I sure do support that, so let me just touch on another thought. SHOPPING!  I know we are out of town for anyone not living in downtown Nenno (whopping total of 28, us being 10…..) but this is where we own a building…so this is where our store is! I know we are out of the way, but we are worth the trip! We work LONG hours and research so MANY hundreds of products to make sure what we sell is great!

Benefits of coming to our store:

Nice enjoyable ride both ways!
Peaceful setting
Ample parking
Polite bagging department
Great product lines
Fresh organic breads
Fresh organic oatmeal & pancake mixes
Local meats –all nitrate and hormone free!
Fresh raw spreads breads and crackers
Fresh organic and local produce delivered three times weekly
Knowledgeable, helpful and enthusiastic staff
Exciting promotions
Education Education Education
You support our nonprofit 501 C3 Vibrant Child program
Beautiful flower gardens to walk through
Entertaining children to help with carry out
FANTASTC herbal line of tinctures we make in our own lab!
HUGE selection of Dr. Christopher formulas
Classes and seminars
Tasting sample

So although we may not be very convenient, we sure try to make it worth the trip!

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

“Curry Everything in the Refrigerator”

I said to Rose when she woke up today “Look at our refrigerator! I cleaned the whole thing!” to which she quickly replied “does that mean we have Curry-Everything in the Refrigerator for dinner? “ I asked her what she meant and she reminded me that two weeks ago when I cleaned the fridge, I put EVERTHING into a pot, steamed it and added spices and curry! That made it Curry Everything in the Refrigerator! Out of the mouths of babes……..

Two Days and Counting!

Our Vibrant Life tasting safari is in TWO days! We are SOO excited! We are busy planning and making the Passports to health…..quite a bit of things to consider. We look forward to having you! Please register through our website. Children will be $3.00 adults $5.00.
You will enter through the church for the safaris’, see you THEN! (and yes, the store will remain open after the safaris ….)

GRANT Writing!

We are still looking for members of our Grant Writing committee! We are VERY excited to apply for grants and use the funds to being these tasting safaris throughout WI! We also want to get posters made and up at local schools….and perhaps those microwave commercials can find some air time? Well…...that may be stretching things a bit….. If interested ion writing grants, PLEASE contact Karen ASAP. Thanks!

HERBAL CLEANSE

This week only our FULL body cleanse is only $119.00. This is a terrific cleanse, and for this price, you simply must give it a try. Free support will always be found from us as well! J
For every $100.00 you spend through July 17th you can enter to win a $75.0 gift certificate! Please save receipts and come in July 17, 19th and 20th to enter.

PRODUCE STILL 10% OFF! Check it out!

EXPO in Milwaukee!

We are filling up spots for our Milwaukee Expo at State Fair Park. Please let us know if you have a suggestion for us to contact regarding a booth or a speaker! 262-629-4301