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Healing Foods and Resources Lillooet, BC

Below is a list to help you find locally-grown organic and biodynamic fruits and vegetables; as well as milk products, butter, eggs, chicken and meat from pasture-fed animals. Our specific focus is regeneratively grown and raised, traditionally handcrafted minimally-processed, refined sugar-free, nutrient dense foods, herbal products, and other natural health supporting resources including practitioners. If you would like to be added to this list and live in Lillooet and Upper St’at’mic please contact me.

Lilloonet – Online marketplace that hosts many of the local farms, artists, herbalists and more for the Lillooet area

Three Ravens Farmstead – Free range eggs, lamb, ducks and more

Seed to Culture – All kinds of traditionally cultured foods made from their own regenerative, locally grown produce

Hella Delicious – Handcrafted honey-butter delicacies, meat bars and kefir grains.

Golden Cariboo Honey – Local honey

Am’lec – Garlic and dehydrated products, locally grown

Spray Creek Ranch – Grass Fed beef, Free Range chickens and eggs, pork, turkey

Rose Hill Farm – Chickens and Dexter cows, great how-to blog and store with some very interesting items.

One Love Farm – Organic vegetables and fruits

Riley Creek Farm – Organic Apples

Bruins End Orchard – Fresh, frozen and dehydrated fruits: Apples, apricots, plums, cherries etc

Old Airport Gardens – Fruits and vegetables, no pesticides used

Other items and Practitioners:

Gillian’s Herbs – incredible range of natural herbal products including salves and teas

13th Fairy Soapcraft – delightful range of naturally made soaps

Tse’lacha Wellness – Traditional Salish medicine from time immemorial – salves, smudge and much more

Lumen Natura – Gut and Psychology Syndrome Certified Practitioner, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist

Canadians Rally for Food Freedom

Canadians Rally for Food Freedom

Vancouver rallies for food freedom November 23rd 2011 in conjunction with all the other right to food choice rallies across the country. These food freedom rallies are in response to the irrational and heavy handed pressure on small-scale local organic food clubs and communities across North America ...

Vancouver’s Fresh Milk Family

Vancouver’s Fresh Milk Family

Last weekend we headed out to our local community dairy's annual farm picnic (www.ourcows.ca). I was pretty excited as we'd only been out to the farm once before on a cold rainy day, which was fun as well--at the time there were about 7 young calves and a litter of puppies--but it is always nice to ...

Foodie’s Follow Friday Bloghop 3

Foodie’s Follow Friday Bloghop 3

I have teamed up with Alex over at www.amoderatelife.com and April of 21st Century Housewife to host the Feed Me! Tweet Me! Follow Me Home Friday Friend Builder Linky. Scroll to the bottom of this page to link up your Real food lovin' blog so we can all get to know each other. This week has been ...

Foodie’s Follow Friday Bloghop 2

Foodie’s Follow Friday Bloghop 2

I have teamed up with Alex over at www.amoderatelife.com and April of 21st Century Housewife to host the Feed Me! Tweet Me! Follow Me Home Friday Friend Builder Linky. Scroll to the bottom of this page to link up your Real food lovin' blog so we can all get to know each other. We are in the middl ...

A Favorite Lunch for the GAP Syndrome Diet

A Favorite Lunch for the GAP Syndrome Diet

For a wonderful well-rounded lunch or snack with nutrient dense chicken liver and lots of home-made fermented vegetables, try one of my favorites: Carrot, ginger, apple kefir smoothie to start. Technically it should be drank and digested at least half an hour before eating the delicious chicken liv ...

Help Our Cows

Help Our Cows

I had the opportunity to have dinner with Alice Jongerden, and she told me some of how she came to be our cow's caretaker. She originally started with just one cow because she wanted fresh milk for her kids. Unfortunately, that cow was dry and she didn't get any milk. After a while she decided to se ...

Pasteurisation, a Sour Story

Pasteurisation, a Sour Story

The following is re-posted from The Good Soup, written by Angela. It helps to explain the differences between the type of raw milk that needs to be pasteurized and the quality fresh raw milk that doesn't as well as what pasteurizing milk covers up. Pasteurization, A Sour Story The word ‘ ...

Real Revolution Resources

Real Revolution Resources

Please feel free to repost all or any information, please link and reference. Most on the ground Real Milk Revolutionaries have been in action for quite some time already. One of my favorite online activists is Food Renegade--every Friday it's Fight Back Friday's--a great place to find delicious ...

Real Milk Revolution

Real Milk Revolution

Please feel free to copy and post any or all of this information and images. (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License) The grassroots Real Milk movement was begun years ago, by Sally Fallon Morell in the US. Here in Canada, Michael Schmidt gave the movement an opportunity wh ...