Newsletter - August 26, 2025

Dear brothers and sisters,

In over 40 years in the live food movement we have found nothing more enlivening than a Green Drink. In our experience, finely divided greens are so vital!

So let us begin: we could have started with spring water, but instead we use grapes, oranges, and grapefruit, which we whirl in a blender to become our liquid base. To this, we  add Siberian Kale and Purple Kale teaming with aliveness. Let us then, brothers and sisters, drink a toast to the vitality at the grassroots with a Green Drink.

May we wish you and family a delightful summer of good health, prosperity and success,

Jesse Schwartz PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods

Labor Day Sale This Week!
20% Off Site Wide

Sale Ends Thursday August 28th at 11:59 PM (PST)

Plus, free shipping on orders over $150

Dear brothers and sisters,

It is our delight to celebrate Labor Day and the profound spirit of America by offering 20% off our full line of products site wide.

Plus, free shipping on orders over $150.

Offer expires Thursday at midnight.

With appreciation and respect,

Jesse Schwartz,PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods

If you have a love for live, organic food and at the same time possess an entrepreneurial spirit and want to get involved in the organic food industry, why not talk with us? We are seeking a business partner.

If you’re a recent graduate and are contemplating a career in the organic food industry, why not consider doing an internship? We offer hands-on experience in sales, marketing and production of live organic food.

In the past decade, US organic retail sales increased by an average of 8% per year.  

In 2023, the US organic marketplace posted record sales.

For further details email jesse@livingtreecommunity.com

Jesse Schwartz PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods

by Ryan Kushner

The City Council of Sweet Home, Oregon, a city of roughly 10,000 people, voted this summer to remove fluoride from its drinking water. 

In passing the ordinance, which went into effect Aug. 7, Sweet Home joined a growing number of U.S. municipalities that are removing or exploring the removal of fluoride from public drinking water this year. 

Utah became the first state to prohibit local communities from adding fluoride to their public water systems, a ban that took effect in May. Florida instituted a similar ban beginning July 1.  

Community water fluoridation, endorsed by health organizations and commonplace in the U.S. since the 1950s, came under renewed public scrutiny in the U.S. after Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. began advocating for its removal from public water systems, calling it “industrial waste” and saying it’s associated with detrimental health effects. The American Dental Association called those claims misleading, noting adverse health impacts were found where fluoridation levels were far higher than in the U.S. 

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