Newsletter - May 2, 2023

My dear brothers and sisters,

We are delighted to show you just how easy it is to create your own veggie ice cream. We make three flavors vanilla, mango and chocolate. The ingredients are frozen bananas, Living Tree Cashew Butter, Living Tree Tahini, Hawaiian honey, maple syrup, vanilla powder, cinnamon, Royal Himalayan Pink Crystal Salt and cacao nibs. It comes together in minutes.

Next Jenna, a master gardener in Ohio, tells us what to plant in May. Her enthusiasm is infectious.

We then have a delightful recipe for Oatmeal Chia Cookies.

Our Zinc Selenium Butter is on sale,regulary $22.99. Now $17.99, this week only.

Then our favorite gardener, Ben with GrowVeg, guides us in  growing herbs.

We close on a positive note with news of Germany's phaseout of nuclear power. This signals  the end of this expensive and most dangerous source of energy in Europe.

Now is the time to plant an heirloom and historic apple tree! Now is the time to start your Victory Garden! Now is the time to join a community garden!

May you and family exemplify vibrant good health in these months of spring time ,

Jesse Schwartz PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods

Brothers and sisters,

There is no question but more Americans are embracing the wisdom of the Greatest Generation and planting Victory Gardens. After all there were 18 million Victory Gardens here during the Second World War.

We would very much like to see your garden. Please take us on a tour. We invite you to submit to us a video.

Our pleasure to award a gift certificate of $150 toward our products for the most empathetic. To us enthusiasm is electric!

Contest ends June 15th.

Email your entries here.

Are you considering a career in the organic food industry?   Why come to Berkeley and  work with us this summer? You’ll be working side with us on sales and marketing both domestic and international. You’ll also be helping with social media. We’ll be sharing with you our decades of experience with live food diets, vigorous exercise and intermittent fasting. We’ll be visiting some organic farms and maybe a field trip to Yosemite and the High Sierras. 

Join us then in making almond butter from almonds grown by a California farming family of five generations on the land!

Moreover,Berkeley is an axis of the intellectual world. The great university here has more Nobel Laureates than any other.

If alive, organic food, supporting family farmers,Victory Gardens, restoring Hetch Hetchy Valley and preserving the buffalo resonates with  you, may we suggest that you send us an email along with your resume.

Send your resume here.

May we mention that internships are not paid positions.

Last weekend Germany completed its promised phase-out, switching off its last three nuclear power stations. Agreed in 2002, this was meant to happen in 2022. Then Angela Merkel’s government decided to delay it until 2036. Months later, in 2011, the disastrous meltdowns and explosions at the reactors at Fukushima forced a return to the 2022 commitment. After a short delay because of the threat to gas supplies from the war in Ukraine, the control rods were inserted and the nuclear reactions at the Emsland, Isar II and Neckarwestheim II plants were finally brought to a halt for the last time on Saturday.

Increased energy efficiency and the rapid growth of renewable energy more than offsets the energy which was generated by these plants. Just the amount of new renewable electricity entering the grid in recent years is the equivalent of three nuclear plants and by 2030 renewables in Germany will be producing the same power as 30 nuclear plants.

Germany’s phase-out is the result of decades of protests, with millions of people taking action to oppose new reactors, reprocessing plants, radioactive waste storage plants and nuclear transport routes. Together they stopped the planned reprocessing plant in Wackersdorf in 1989. In 2005, export of nuclear waste was banned. And recently the candidate site for long-term storage of nuclear waste at Gorleben was deemed unsuitable, leaving no solution for the most radioactive waste.

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