Newsletter - October 31, 2023

My dear brothers and sisters,

Our delight to share with you a recipe for a No-Bake Carrot Cake.

Almond Milk
1 Cup Spring Water
1 tbs Almond butter

Blend

Filling
Into a food processor we add the following:
2 Carrots
1 Cup Walnuts
1Cup Almonds
1 Cup Rolled Oats
2 tsp Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Nutmeg
1/4 tsp Ginger
1 tsp Vanilla
1/2  Cup Almond Milk

Blend and spread in a pan covered in parchment paper
Refrigerate

Frosting
1/2 Cup Cashew Butter
1/2 Cup Tahini
1/2 Cup Almond Milk
Medjool Dates Pitted and Chopped
1 tbs Lemon Juice
1 tsp Vanilla
Spread on top of the filling.
Refrigerate for two hours and enjoy!
Please watch the video.

On sale  this week is our Roasted Almond Butter, Cashew Butter and Almond,Cashew,Brazil Nut Innovation Butter. Our pleasure to offer a $5 discount on each.

Next we offer a video that explores the enigma of the extraordinary mass of information necessary for life.Darwin posits a mechanism whereby  random variations occur in living things  and those that are useful are maintained through survival of the fittest. But then there are some difficulties… namely, the fossil record. During the Cambrian epoch a myriad of living things came into existence, an explosion of life, if you will ,with few antecedents.  The Cambrian explosion was in effect, a huge infusion of information.  Where did it come from? Whence the extraordinary coding to build new forms of life that, moreover, are reproducible? Whenever we see in a paragraph in a book,  an image in the sand on the beach, a hieroglyphic written in stone, it is the product of intelligence.

Then there is the question of the origin of life. How does life originate from inanimate matter? Note only must it be sustainable, it must be reproducible.Here Darwin has nothing to say, as the random variation, natural selection mechanism  applies only to living things.

Our pleasure to include with your order of $150 or more two pomegranates grown by Judith and her colleagues with Full Belly Farm. Theirs is one of the finest organic farms. We invite you to savor their intentionality.

Our Victory Garden Sale, this November, includes  Lake Baikal Siberian Pine Nut Butter, Brazil Nut Butter and our Red Quinoa.We offer these at a 10% discount.
Remember you receive an additional 10% off when you purchase 3 jars or more.

Ziziphus is back! Ziziphus jujuba, Chinese date apples grown for you by the outstanding family farmers with Full Belly Farms here  in California. Jujubes are red outside with a crispy texture, edible skin, and a sweet-tart flavor. Experience their refreshingly pleasant flavor. Then Vandana Shiva clearly and  eloquently explains how living soil teeming with microbes and fungi can mitigate climate change and increase nutrition. She calls for working with nature to address environmental ills.

Finally, Bjorn Andreas Bull-Hansen tells us how AI will make people miserable, as if we were not already,  more estranged, isolated and  lonely than at anytime in human history.

We take heart that despite all the challenges, you, in your wisdom, will flourish and thrive.

Please accept our best wishes  for good health and vitality, to you and family,

Jesse Schwartz PhD
President
Living Tree Community Foods

by Vandana Shiva

Based on the forthcoming book, “Climate Change and the Future of Food.”

Industrial agriculture is rupturing the planetary boundaries and driving climate change  

Fossil agriculture and food systems are destroying the climate, biodiversity and our health.

More than 50% of the greenhouse gas emissions come from an industrial fossil food system of producing, processing and distributing food.

Industrial agriculture and its food systems are fossil fuel systems.

Fossil fuel chemicals like nitrogen fertilizers have disrupted the planetary nitrogen boundary. The monocultures promoted for fossil fuel inputs are driving the loss of biodiversity, genetic diversity and species extinction.

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