Newsletter - August 2, 2022

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Video: It is Not Too Late to Start a Container Garden

Dear brothers and sisters,

We are thrilled to bring you Ben with GrowVeg. He’s going show us that its still not too late to plant a winter garden. Watch as he harvests an abundance of carrots, kale and lettuce and garlic; all of this in containers which makes it so much easier for many of us to emulate him.

Please note that our walking tour video contest is still on, please consider taking us on a stroll.

Jesse Schwartz PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods

 

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Video: August 2021 Vegetable Garden Tour : Part 1 by Growfully by Jenna

High Summer Victory Garden Contest

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We invite you to show us around your Victory Garden. Go ahead and create a video walking tour. Take us along those beds of lettuce and tomatoes, parsley and celery.Why not have Mozart or Dvorak in the background? Tell us something of your self, your joys and challenges. We offer gift certificates of $180 for the most bodacious entries.

Send a link to your video here

Contest ends August 12th

Recipe: Low-Carb Pumpkin Bread (Egg-Free)

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Extra moist pumpkin bread with brown sugar and warm pumpkin spices! A delicious breakfast, snack or dessert without any gluten, dairy, eggs or sugar. (Paleo & Vegan)

Ingredients:

  • 2 1/2 cups fine almond flour
  • 2/3 cup Besti Brown Sugar - allulose/monkfruit blend, packed
  • 1/4 cup tapioca flour
  • 1/4 cup ground flaxseed
  • 4 tsp pumpkin spice
  • 1 1/2 baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/8 tsp pink salt
  • 2/3 cup pumpkin purée
  • 6 Tbs oil - I used light-tasting olive
  • 1/4 cup water


August Victory Garden Sale

10% off this month’s featured items (Remember, if you buy 3 or more of any Living Tree manufactured product, you get an additional 10% off!)
Pumpkin Seed Butter – Alive and Organic

Living Tree Community Foods Organic Pumpkin Seed Butter is created in Berkeley, California from alive, raw organic pumpkin seeds grown by American family farmers. We make it by slicing raw pumpkin seeds into a luxurious spread, adding organic pumpkin seed oil and then seasoning it with a little Royal Himalayan Pink Crystal Salt. Very nourishing and energizing. A balanced source of good protein. Try it on fruit slices and on flax crackers.

“Call Of The Wild” White Clover Honey – Alive & Organic

Living Tree Community Foods raw, alive and organic Clover Honey has a rich, buttery flavor. Try on a slice of apple or pear. Blend into almond or coconut milk. Lends itself to alive confections like chia seed pudding.

Cashews (Whole) – Shelled & Organic

Living Tree Community Foods organic cashews are grown on small, family-owned farms in Vietnam. Once harvested, the cashew nuts are shelled at a local processing facility. Our cashews have been certified organic since 1998

New! Items For August

California Almond Flour (Blanched) – Alive & Organic

Living Tree Community Foods organic blanched almond flour is produced from raw and alive nonpareil almonds grown by the Koretoff family, California family farmers of five generations. Rejoice in its moist, oily aliveness. What wonderful alive cookies and cakes you will make! Combine with honey, chopped dates and raisins for an alive pie shell. You’ll think of many other creative uses!

French Roast Coffee - Organic & Fair Trade

Living Tree Community Foods organic and fair trade French Roast Coffee is a blend of Central and South American coffees roasted dark to produce ebony black beans and a smoky aroma. It is slightly sweet with a clean aftertaste. Medium body. Dark roast.

Roasted in Berkeley, CA

Avocado Oil - Organic

Living Tree Community Foods Organic Refined Avocado Oil is low in saturated fats and high in monounsaturated fats making it both healthy and multi-functional. Traditionally refined avocado oil has one of the highest smoke points of any cooking oil. This versatility combined with its neutral flavor and healthy fat profile makes it a popular option with chefs and home cooks.

Internship Opportunities at Living Tree Community Foods

Are you contemplating a career in the organic food industry? Why not begin with an internship?!  Work side by side with us in sales, marketing and social media. Get hands-on experience in producing nut butters, oils and chocolates. We will visit family farmers and go backpacking in the High Sierras.

For more information, write to us and send a resume to jesse@livingtreecommunity.com

Video: Muscle Knows No Age. 15 Minute Workout by Living Springs Retreat

Video: Atlantic Ocean ‘pretty much dead’ says scientist as plankton wiped out by Marine Industry News

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An Edinburgh-based research team says plankton, the tiny organisms that sustain life in the seas, has all but been wiped out. The team’s spent two years collecting water samples from the Atlantic and in a dire warning says this means the Atlantic’s ‘pretty much dead’.

At the bottom of the food chain, plankton is consumed by the krill which are fed on by the fish that, in turn, provide nutrition for terrestrial animals including billions of humans.

The research has been conducted by GOES (Global Oceanic Environmental Survey Foundation) using its yacht Copepod which has collected samples from the Atlantic and the Caribbean. From Scotland, it sailed along French and Portuguese coasts before crossing the Atlantic and is currently in Colombia, before setting sail for Panama.

GOES has also provided monitoring equipment to other sailing boat crews so that they can perform the same trawls and report back with their results.

“Given that plankton is the life-support system for the planet and humanity cannot survive without it, the result is disturbing,” says marine biologist and former Scottish Government adviser Dr Howard Dryden. “It will be gone in around 25 years. Our results confirmed a 90% reduction in primary productivity in the Atlantic. Effectively, the Atlantic Ocean is now pretty much dead.”

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