Harvest Haven Health - HERALD ISSUE 2

This is as much a surprise to me as it is to you! A second issue of the Harvest Haven Herald is now in your possession! We hope you will enjoy it, be informed, and take advantage of the little bit of knowledge we pass on for good. Remember that this newsletter is for Hsin Ten (Chi) distributors, our friends, who shop with us at our farm store for organic groceries and other healthy products, and for the general public. Share this newsletter with all those you will. We will appreciate it and hopefully they will too.

Why Shop at Harvest Haven Market Farm?

There are many reasons, some of which are:

We produce most of the food right here. We are not just a retail outlet. You can assure yourself of what you are getting by knowing us and knowing how we do things here.
When is the last time a cashier at Safeway took the time to advise you how to cook, garden, or live healthily?
You gain by supporting local farmers and businesses. You contribute to sustainable agriculture, to the environment, to health for all. Your moral and ethical support is as important as the financial.
We are one of the rare farms using Grander Living Water for everything. Grander makes a big difference in your fruits, vegetables, and meats.
No transportation, or too busy? No problem. We deliver.

As stated in our first issue of the Harvest Haven Herald, the theme of our farm business is “Back to Basics.” Another way of putting it is that we practice Preventative Healthcare. Why spend money, energy and time on drugs, medical treatment, therapy, supplements, poor food, sick care? Why lose time from work, have sleepless nights, headaches, fatigue, even cancer? Eat proper food, drink proper water, breath proper air, and treat your body, soul and spirit to good influences. That is what we are all about. Come and live, and enjoy! It IS possible! Believe it.

Organic Food

Notice: Our raspberries and strawberries are coming.
Organic BC Fruit orders taken now. Give us a call.

The following are food topics that are important to all of us.

Salt and the Principle of Wholeness by Paul Cohen

Recently we have been learning more about salt. Whole salt properly harvested from the sea contains a great variety of minerals and trace minerals directly suited, and necessary for our bodies' health. The cheap white stuff labeled "salt" is highly processed, 100% sodium chloride, nothing else. It is neither whole nor balanced as found in nature. It is therefore out of harmony with nature and our bodies.

Our blood has similar mineral composition to seawater. Salt that is harvested from the sea has those necessary elements to harmonize our body systems. We need the minerals found in whole salt. What is best is that these minerals come already packaged for us in appropriate proportions, and in a deliverable form that is directly suitable for the body. It doesn't take much salt to season your food, nor does it take much of its (whole salt's) components to give you what you need. Some of these very necessary elements have been labeled "trace" elements. A little is what is needed; more is not necessarily better.

Along the same lines, foods that are used whole, which are raised to maturity on good clean soil, provide vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and literally thousands of other substances not available on the market. We don't live by isolated things. Whole and organic foods have a multitude of elements, and who is to say that ALL of them in COMBINATION are not beneficial, even necessary to life? Is it wise to depend on refined, chemically grown and treated foods, and then supplements to make up for the shortfall? Ought we not first seek those fundamental and basic things that suit our needs? Isn’t whole sea salt the ultimate mineral supplement, at a fraction of the cost of man-made ones? Doesn’t the same go for food, grown in conditions as described above?

It is very simple. We come from the earth, and those things grown or obtained from the earth match our needs.

No doubt, we might lack somewhat from depleted soils by not eating certain supplements. However, what are we lacking by not availing ourselves of good organic food? God has created us to eat foods, not supplements. That is why we have this organic farm. We are replenishing the soil, treating it right, and our emphasis is on going back to basics. Natural sea salt is a basic, as is good, clean food. These ought to come first. Second, or never, is not really a choice in the long run.

Some Interesting Facts about Salt (Bottle washer’s note)

The word “salt” has received a bad rap, and the ordinary processed table salt deserves every bit of it and more. It is nutritionless poison, nothing less. It is my conviction that good, wholesome, unprocessed salt normalizes body systems. I believe that if we were all to consume but moderate quantities of proper salt, we would soon do away with many of our ailments and diseases. Let us consider some facts about good and bad salt:

Did you know that whole salt is the most complex mineral element of the planet? Did you know that salt is found in 85% of the earth? Does that tell you something? To me, it means that salt was provided in abundance, because it is so vital to our lives.

The Bible says, quoting the Lord Jesus Christ, that “salt is good.” Yet, many “experts” and “professionals” would have us believe that the less salt we consume, the better. Not so. I believe God. Of course, if the experts are referring to ordinary table salt, they are right. However, Jesus was not referring to the cheap counterfeit. He was referring to the real thing, and so are we.

Does salt indeed increase blood pressure? Ordinary table salt does. However, the British Medical Journal has reported that whole, properly harvested sea salt normalizes blood pressure. It reduces high blood pressure and increases low blood pressure. Isn’t that wonderful? That beats taking medication, does it not?

Don’t be fooled by the term “sea salt.” Salt coming from the sea means no more than flour coming from the farm. There is processed flour that is poison, and organic flour that is wholesome and nutritious. Both come from the farm. The questions are: “Where in the sea does it come from? How is it extracted? Is it refined?”

Ordinary table salt has no nutrients whatsoever, and the iodine added is synthetic. Good sea salt has upwards of 92 minerals, 24 of them known to be trace minerals essential for life, in proper proportion and balance. Natural iodine is one of them.

While the synthetic iodine of poison table salt lasts no longer than 20 minutes in one’s body, the natural iodine of good salt will be there 48 hours, with traces evident weeks later.

Natural salt provides the vital connection with the forces and elements of nature.

The moral of the story: Sifto stinks and Windsor winks; Get Real.

For more information (and there is SO much more), ask us.

Good reading on salt: Seasalt’s Hidden Powers by Jacques de Langre, Ph.D.

Note: While RealSalt is mined on land, and may not have the same quality as newly harvested sea salt such as Nature’s Cargo, it is nevertheless very good, and is by far preferable to what is commonly used.

Item Number Two on Our Food Section - Dandelions!!!

This so-called “weed” has been the bane of gardeners, lawn dressers, park and golf course keepers, farmers and more. Yet, it is no secret that dandelions are enormously nutritious. Italians love them in their green salads. Why do you think they can sing so well? By the looks of Pavarotti, he eats several salad bowls each day, with olive oil, of course!

Here goes the “chicken and egg” thing: “Are people smarter because they eat dandelions or do they eat dandelions because they are smarter?” I have no doubt that if dandelions are full of nutrients, which they are, they will be better off mentally as well as physically. Animals love them, birds love them, children love them (until they are forced to weed them) so why don’t we? It seems that we tend to despise the common.

Another conviction: We are searching the world over for expensive and exotic herbs and supplements when we already have a veritable carpet of medicine beneath our feet, nearly everywhere we walk. It is a fact that dandelions are blood and liver cleansers, that they help other vital organs, like the kidneys and pancreas. How many people have problems in these areas, even cancer!

So, take fresh dandelion leaves (flowers and stems too if you wish), with good salt, some essential balance oils and apple cider vinegar each day, and you will be improving your health potential significantly! Pick them young and shaded, to avoid much bitterness. When mixed with other salad stuffs, they are simply delicious!

Warning: Don’t pick them from chemicaled areas, and if you don’t have any, we sell commercial organically grown dandelions.

Item Number Three - A Secret About Good Beef! Did You Know?

You can get your Omega 3’s and 6’s from Harvest Haven organic, pasture-fed beef! Our beef has the best of pasturing with diversity, including Cicer milkvetch (high in protein lipase), legumes, clovers, and grasses. We mineralize our pastures and water them with Grander, thus enabling plants to absorb nutrients from the soil more efficiently, and protecting the cattle from unwanted chemicals. Our beef is no ordinary beef.

Item Number Four – Sauerkraut

Who Wants European-style, oak barrel-made Sauerkraut? We have it! A wonderful source of enzymes in the natural! Would you like to know more about enzymes? Ask us.

Water

Water – What a Substance! by Paul Cohen

On May 5, a meeting was held at Harvest Haven with Dan Stewart of Water Revitalization Ltd, representing Grander Water Revitalization products for North America. The main thrust of Dan's presentation was that water has a tremendous memory for information, which can make water the carrier of either life or death. When water is chemically treated, confined, and then transported in straight piping systems, it loses much of its original vitality becoming listless, carrying negative information. No amount of other types of treatments will change this.

What is unique about Johann Grander's systems is that he has found a way to overwrite the negative information by re-establishing the original and healthful information that water carries when pristine. Thereby the water becomes a better solvent, cleans itself up, and becomes the conduit of life that it was created to be. Grander credits his invention as a gift from God.

The following night Victor and I attended a presentation in Calgary by Dr. Emoto of Japan, famous for his book, Messages from Water. Dr. Emoto's work with waters from all over the world has demonstrated that water quality, while degraded by industrial processes, can also be affected by music, thoughts and words. He documents this effect with before and after pictures of the crystalline structure of various waters when frozen. Water exposed to harmonious music, or having positive words or thoughts applied to it, takes on meaningful and beautiful geometric patterns. These patterns represent a positive reorganization of water. The results, however, are only temporary, especially in tap water that lacks tight formative clusters to begin with, which clusters can then better hold the information imparted to the water. The wonderful thing about Grander revitalization is that it re-establishes permanently these formative clusters found in healthy water.

Dr. Emoto said that concerning our health, "Diseases come from irregularities of vibration." What Grander Water Revitalization does is to help normalize and restore the proper vibrational information to water, giving it life abetting properties and vitality, aiding not only our health, but also the health of all it comes in contact with, earth, plants and animals.

The Hsin Ten Enterprises Products (CHI NEWS)

Greetings to all the Chi Distributors and customers out there!

A reminder that so far, Hsin Ten is still offering free carrying cases, enzymes and Beta Loe with every Chi and HotHouse Combo order. That is a good deal, knowing that many people in the past have ordered those machines without that bonus, myself included. Besides that, the company is giving free enzymes and a Daytimer if you email your order in on any machine purchase. Doing it that way, one receives about $350 Can.(or $15 Am…but things are looking up lately…used to be $10 Am.) in free and useful merchandise with a combo, and over $100 (Can.) worth with a single machine!

Are you aware that if you order 6 machines, be they Chi, Hot House, FIR-To-Go, or Energizers, in any one month, you receive a free one, besides your commissions? Something to think about!

Chi Testimony by Sherry Greenberg ND, HMD, LMFT

I would like to share my gratitude for my Chi Machine! The past six months have been the busiest time of my life. Every moment seemed to be filled with back-to-back clients and the days were extremely long. During this time my normal exercise routine of running, walking and yoga that I had a lifetime commitment to, took a serious decline. Newly acquiring and using the Chi Machine, I was able to maintain my level of mental, emotional and physical fitness during this time. Now that my schedule is allowing me to resume my exercise routine, I find that I am able to return to these fitness activities easily. Therefore, I know the Chi Machine was instrumental in maintaining my level of fitness. I was amazed at my ability to maintain a graceful emotional attitude in times of high stress without exercise. I found a little bit of “Chi” time spent yielded a high quality holistic return.

Chi Testimony by Richard Vodegel, MD, Sun Lakes, AZ

Rheumatoid arthritis, chronic neck and back pain, chronic fatigue

I am a 72 year-old medical doctor and psychiatrist who has used the Chi Machine now for about a week. Prior to this, I have availed myself of the usual prescribed medical therapies and medications.

My symptoms were:

Chronic back and neck pain due to ankylosing spondylitis, a form of rheumatoid arthritis where the spine becomes fused and rigid. This started 35 years ago.
Chronic fatigue for 5 years, with lack of physical energy, where many little daily things were difficult to do.
Sleep disturbances because of the pain.

What the machine did for me:

Back and neck pain changed to the point that they did not control my life anymore.
The chronic fatigue disappeared surprisingly after 5 days, and I have no trouble doing things again.
Sleep is comfortable without continuously having to find a painless sleeping position. It seems that my bed and I are friends again.
Last, but not least, a feeling of well-being and normalcy only remembered from younger years.

I used the Chi Machine twice a day. One day, I only got one treatment and felt the difference. Frequent experiences after a treatment were as if I just had a good workout, as if I were in a spa or had a good relaxing massage. Also, I had some small but pleasant changes, e.g. putting on my socks and shoes were easier. Considering that, as a beginner, each treatment lasted only 5 minutes, for the ratio of times spent and duration of benefits received, it was not a difficult decision to purchase the machine.

Dr. Nathan Lipton, who has been in Lethbridge, has over 30 medical doctors in his downline, both using and selling Chi Machines, HotHouses and Energizers. They find them very effective. Don’t think the medical people are missing out!

The Spiritual

Have You Ever Wondered?

They say Jesus Christ was a great man, a prophet, a teacher, an enlightened and wise and good man who loved people. Many believe He was, and is, the Son of God, even God Himself. The entire Bible is based on Him, the Gospels on His life and work. Now while people are not at all ashamed nor reticent to speak of any other man, so many are ashamed to speak of Him. Have you ever wondered why? If you have answers, let us know. We would like to hear them.

“We Bought the Farm”

This is where we talk about the unusual, the strange, the incredible, the funny…the ridiculous?

“They Took a Gander” by Lois Benson

On a bright warm autumn day, I decided I had better pick the beans for seed the next year. I was enjoying the peace and quiet in the patch when along came…the GEESE. The squadron (or gaggle, whatever) of twelve made their way into the bean patch to see what I was up to. They were always curious, ever investigating anyone and everything. The geese would follow customers around, to the delight of some, annoyance of others, and some even in fear of them.

They were honking, shaking their heads, stopping to nibble on the dry bean vines, and came over to look into what I had in my container. I thought, "Oh great, there goes my quiet few hours in the garden!" I decided I would try to discourage them from making so much noise. I began to sing. At first their honking continued, then slowly, goose by goose, they stopped. They looked around, cocking their heads, and looked at me in amazement as if to say, "What is that noise?" They remained beside me, but were very quiet. So I decided to try a second verse to see what would happen. As I began, the geese looked at one another, and I am sure that if they could, they would have rolled their eyes. Then, politely and respectfully, they filed into a single line formation (all twelve) and waddled out of the garden. Once they got outside of the garden, though, they broke into a noisy commentary, shaking their heads and looking back at me as they left.

For Sale

Machinery: Kubota 65 hp tractor, John Deere seed drill, Troybilt rototiller.

Music: Six and twelve string acoustic guitars.

Appliances: Maytag built-in dishwasher, water softener, 20 cu ft freezer, pasteurizer, Omega juicer, humidifier/mister.

Automotive equipment: AVR – (electronic automotive analyzer)

Recreational: golf clubs, Tonka sandbox toys, lawn furniture.

Children’s: Clothes and furnishings, beds…

Miscellaneous: Avon collector’s after shave and cologne bottles (many still full), oak barrels.

That ends our second issue! Do you have enough for wallpaper? Let’ see what we can do!

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