Raw Sacramento News RSN.04.30.04

Newsletter to Raw Sacramento Thursday, April 30, 2004 (potluck this Sunday)!

A "Public Nuisance" is how the city of Sacramento describes the home where many of us will enjoy our Next Monthly Potluck this Sunday, May 2 at 5:30pm. Come annoy the city bureaucrats with a raw dish! Full Details on Sunday's Potluck. Here's the letter to the editor of the Bee that Mark Blackburn wrote regarding his favorite green-thumbed criminal. The Bee has removed this article from it's free archive. Below is a headline and photo.

Karen Baumann works in her front-yard garden with twin sons Emery, left, and Taylor. The yard violates Sacramento’s city code that requires landscaping primarily with low ground cover or turf.

There are so may Raw Food events on our calendar I cannot mention them all! NOW is the time, however, to be planning attendance at the largest Raw Food Festival in the world (coming in August) as well as many other excellent regional events at places like Nevada City, Lodi, Sacramento, etc. Check the calendar or weep! In May you can hear Dr. Ruza Bogdanovich in Reno, Dr. Lorraine Day in Sacramento, and attend a 10-day juice fasting retreat near Nevada City with Len Watson. Check here!

Is it time to move? Need a new raw-friendly place to live? Suddenly there are 3 great options for you. Three of our members who have raw households are looking for raw roommates. (Ironically we have held potlucks at each of these homes, so you may know the homes already).

Can you help one of our members in need? For two years Larry and Diane Walters graciously opened their home in West Sacramento to us for Raw Sacramento events. They contributed a lot of their time to helping Raw Sacramento grow. They are now in need of some help. Have you wanted to help, but not known how? Here's an easy way to help our group. As an added bonus you will learn about the Gerson Therapy for cancer (one of the most successful non-toxic curative protocols for cancer).

Here's the request I received from Larry. Please reply directly to him. If you have any trouble reaching Larry, please call Mark at 916.444..6500.

-Mark

Hello Mark,

I would like to have you send out an informational message to the Raw Sacramento mailing list. This message is intended to provide a brief status of my current health challenge and to ask for assistance.

I have been diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus and have investigated all my options, including alternative therapies. I've decided on the Gerson Therapy (see website www.gerson.org for details).

Using the Gerson Nutritional Therapy, I am juicing carrots, apples, and a green drink from fresh organic vegetables. I have to juice and drink and cleanup after 13 juices per day. Part of the therapy is a heavy detoxification program and supplements. Plus I will need to get as much rest as possible while detox is cleaning out my system.

My wife, Diane has to work every day, so she helps me to prepare ahead for some of the juices and meals. That still leaves a large amount of work for me each day.

I am requesting some volunteers to help me each day. I would accept someone who can occasionally help, who can help once per week on a set time, or up to once per month on a set time. I will provide any training that would be required. It will be mostly preparing and cleanup for the juicing using a Norwalk Juicer.

If you feel that you can help with my Healing Therapy, please call me or Diane at 916.376..0860.

Thank you and God bless,

Larry & Diane Walters

Raw Restaurants Update: In our Last newsletter I made lengthy comments about raw restaurants in general and some new ones in the Bay Area. Since then I have made 2 visits to Cafe Gratitude which is quite easy to get to (even in SFO). You do not have to pay to park. I highly recommend them. They are rather close to the Rainbow Co-op/Market which has quite an assortment of foods & supplies for Raw Foodists (Bulk Foods: grains, nuts, seeds) exotic oils, organic produce, Evert-Fresh bags, Aloe Vera Leaves and many other items. Cafe Gratitude is a wonderful restaurant. Prices are modest. Portion sizes are small. Check our updated Restaurant links pages. .

Rainbow Grocery is at 1745 Folsom Street SFO 415-863-0620 Cafe Gratitude is about 1 mile away straight down Harrison St.

Interested in buying rawfood crackers? Alana (formerly Adair Schwarz) is gearing up production of raw crackers & cookies at her home near McKinley Park. Mark has tried them and says they are delicious!

We're all thumbs!

Thumbs up to Bee Staff Writer Dan Vierria who on April 24 chronicled the bizarre police state action of the Republik of Sacramento's Code Enforcement against homeowner Karen Baumann. Ms. Baumann, a teacher, a mother, and a gardener is guilty of planting a vegetable garden in her front yard! Imagine! (After attending Earth Day at CSUS, I read your article, wondering if it wasn't a late April Fool's joke).

Thumbs up to Ms. Baumann for her green thumb and green living! 100 years ago--when Americans were still healthy--every home in America had a vegetable garden. Today we buy plastic, genetically perverted food raised in dead soils, laden with poison called 'pesticides' wondering why we have 40 times the cancer, 25 times the heart disease, and many new diseases which didn't exist when we grew our own food with love as Ms. Baumann is 'guilty' of. In an effort to save $20 a week at the grocery store we now waste billions on dysfunctional disease care.

Thumbs down to the city bureaucrats! Based upon their logic, I'm suspicious they're gardening something in their back yards and smoking it without a prescription!

Personal-size seedless watermelons are hot this year, according to Small Farm News, a cooperative extension newsletter. Look for melons in the 3-pound range at farmers markets and supermarkets.

BurnOut II Weed Killer, with clove oil as one of its active ingredients, is now available for those seeking environmentally friendly garden care products. BurnOut II is an alternative to Roundup. Another new product using clove-oil is Poison Ivy Defoliant, which takes care of poison oak and climbing ivy as well. For more information: www.milkyspore.com.

I have updated our potluck schedule indicating the dates in 2004 for potlucks. What we need now are homes at which we could have these potlucks. Our participation is trending up—our November potluck had 40 individuals. If you are the host, you do not need to prepare a dish. And, you don't need to drive. The food comes to you! Here's some information about hosting a potluck.

Have you eaten much more raw food than previously for at least 2 months? Did you experience any health improvements? Would you be willing to write a 'Raw Food Testimony?" We would like to post more of these. If you have concrete, documentable health improvements and can write a few paragraphs about your experience, it may influence and help others. Would you please send us your Testimony?

Please forward this link to any interested party.

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