We were pleased with your response to our offer of free shipping so we’ve decided to continue it at least for the time being:

PLEASE NOTE: Starting July 8, we are requiring that all orders contain a minimum of 3 items. Any 3 items will work. 

This is your opportunity to stock up on Tahini, Hemp Heart Butter, Almond Flour, Flame Raisins, Thompson Seedless Raisins and Brazil nuts.

My dear brothers and sisters,

As I write this, I'm in my second day of a fast. As you know, I start each week with a fast from Sunday night through Tuesday night. I must say I feel energetic and alive. I will break the fast this evening with a green drink of salad greens from my garden blended in carrot and beet juice that I make with my juicer. I’ll add a couple of cloves of garlic and some ginger. This is a powerful combination. For most of the week I have only one meal a day; it is alive and organic. Just now I am rejoicing with the sweet corn from our local farmer’s market and the kale and zucchini from our community garden.

It seems to me that in times, such as these, it is our duty to increase our vivacity. We have got to overcome the pervasive silence and the social distancing. We have got to get back, to understand the meaning of brotherhood and sisterhood. We have got to make ourselves, each one of us, an exemplar of aliveness.

We can yet build here an edible schoolyard for the American spirit,

Jesse Schwartz PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods

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We feature a salad for midsummer. We combine chopped broccoli, apples, tomatoes, cucumbers, and red onions; a rainbow of colors and textures. For the dressing we prepare almond milk to which we add chia seeds for thickening, then walnut butter, cashew butter, salt, lemon, and Medjool date pieces. The result is a creamy, rich dressing. We toss the salad- voilà a living exemplification of life energy.

Our favorite gardener, Ben with GrowVeg, effervescent with enthusiasm, as always, tells of five crops that can be planted right now. First, there is bok choy an outstanding Asian vegetable. Then arugula, one of the fastest growing vegetables; it produces a mass of delectable greens. (By the way it’s a member of the Brassica family, which includes kale, collards, and cabbage.) Then there are turnips producing sweet and tender roots. Napa or Chinese cabbage resembles Romaine lettuce and is a magnificent salad green.Finally, there is cilantro or coriander, another delectable salad green. It's lineage, by the way, traces back to ancient times.

Then Sunil Pai MD tells us how cancer risk rises with every bite of processed meat. He maintains that even grass fed and free range meat promote cancer. Ultra processed and sugary foods are also dangerous in this regard.

Stephen Meyer gives an insightful talk on the problematics of Darwin's theory of evolution. Darwin sees life originating from a single cell in a gradual slow process over eons. Life forms originate in natural selection on random variations; an unguided and undirected, mechanistic process. As one pundit says "Darwinism gives us design without a designer”. However, the fossil record bespeaks something a rather different. It seems that new forms of life arose abruptly, and then remained static for a long period. There is no gradual morphing of one form of life to another as predicted by Darwin. The Cambrian explosion is one dramatic example in which animal forms arose abruptly without precedents. There have been other explosions, including the first dinosaurs, the first birds and the first flowers. This overriding pattern of abrupt appearance and then stasis contradicts Darwin.

Finally, Elias Yoder, a traditional farmer, guides us in producing magnificent, large potatoes instead of the mass of small ones that most of us achieve when we grow them for the first time.

We would like to ask your assistance in bringing back our almond butter. We've been out for some months.

We've been short on working capital. The price of organic almonds has increased by 75%. We are seeking loans and offer competitive terms. Each lender will receive 6 jars of almond butter with our compliments.

If you have a love for alive, organic food and want to get involved, here is your opportunity.

For further details email jesse@livingtreecommunity.com

Jesse Schwartz PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods