Newsletter - November 15, 2022

Dear brothers and sisters,

We invite you to join us as we create an avocado, almond butter, chocolate pie. This recipe comes to us from Emily at Pretty Pies. Check out her website for more great dessert recipes. Here is the recipe:-

Crust
coconut oil 4tbs
Flame raisins 1 cup
Medjool dates-pitted 1 cup
Sliced almonds- 1 cup

Blend together in a food processor and press into a 7 inch parchment lined pie plate

Filling
Three ripe avocados
Alive,organic almond butter - 1 cup
Cacao powder -1/2 cup
Coconut oil- 1/4 cup
Maple syrup-1/4 cup
Sea salt- pinch

Scoop out the avocados.
Blend all the ingredients together in a food processor and fill  the crust in the pie plate. Put in your freezer for 3 hours. Enjoy with friends and family.

Next Ben with Growveg, our favorite gardener,  tells us how simple it is to make compost fast. Needless to say, compost is the pillar of an organic garden.

Steven Lome MD tells why 100% of heart disease is preventable.

Then there is the unspeakably tragic news that the earth’s vertebrae animal population experienced a decline of nearly 70% between 1970 and 2018.

On a happier note, we’re delighted to say our Tumeric and Honey Butter is back. Our Medjool dates are new crop; sundried and organic of course. Our Absolut Honey, an elegant natural confection, is back.

We invite you to ponder our Greek Heritage Olive Oil with its high biophenol content.

Our November sale includes Brazil Nut Butter an excellent source of selenium and Cashew Butter which lends itself so well to making vegan "cheesecake". Our California grown, dried tomatoes, organic and salt free, are just the thing for sauces and pasta.

Please accept our best wishes for good health, prosperity and success to you and your family,

Jesse Schwartz PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods

A sweeping report published Thursday by one of the world’s largest conservation groups finds that Earth’s vertebrate animal populations experienced an average decline of nearly 70% between 1970 and 2018, a staggering drop that experts attribute to the worsening climate crisis, pollution, the large-scale destruction of forests and continued human exploitation of wildlife.

The World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Living Planet Report 2022, which the group calls its most comprehensive study to date, estimates that tens of thousands of monitored mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile and fish populations have seen an average 69% decline in relative abundance over just a 50-year period, a blaring signal that the planet is in the midst of a devastating biodiversity crisis.

“The message is clear and the lights are flashing red,” states the new report, which examines nearly 32,000 species populations across the planet — from the oceanic whitetip shark to the Amazon pink river dolphin to Darwin’s frog — to spotlight what it describes as the twin emergencies of climate change and species decline.

“Climate change is having a dramatic impact on our natural environment,” the report notes.

“Some species are dying out while others are having to move where they live due to changes in air temperature, weather patterns, and sea levels. As well as being a direct driver of biodiversity loss, climate change also worsens the other drivers.”

WWF warns that animal populations in its freshwater Living Planet Index “have been hit the hardest, declining by an average of 83%” thanks to myriad factors, including pollution and massive species exploitation. Regionally, Latin America — home to the rapidly deteriorating Amazon rainforest — has seen the largest decline in average population abundance at 94%.

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