"Anastasia" Interview Playback Available NOW :)

WOW, did you listen in live to the radio show interview Mr. M did with Dr. Leo Sharashkin on Friday night? Mmmmmm, what a wonderful inspiration Dr. Leo is, stepping from a projected path of corporate business life into becoming the editor of the phenomenal "Anastasia" books into English, moving onto a plot of land, homebirthing and raising three vibrant children with his lovely wife, co-creating their kins' domain garden and now sharing workshops worldwide based on Anastasia's simple and profound message - to get to the land and start growing ;) Well, in truth, she shares a *lot* more than that in these books - this is the core message that I took from this life-shifting series though and it was SUCH a blessing to be able to speak with Leonid directly about this revolution...

If you missed the call, the free interview *PLAYBACK* can still be heard over at TheRawFoodWorldRadioShow.com until midnight Pacific time tonight (Sunday) - the special book offers on the call are also available until midnight Pacific tonight - enjoy :)))


on March the 26th I appreciated:

1 quart water
1.5 cups carrot juice blended with Vitamineral Green
1 tbsp bee pollen, 30 chlorella tablets
2 cups greeeeeeeeen juice mixed with carrot juice
bowl of blended lucuma/coconut pudding with dulse and flax crackers
mug of reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
3 cups water
2 cups greeeeeeen juice mixed with carrot juice
bowl of broccoli salad (chopped broccoli, avo/basil sauce, dulse, chopped tomatoes), followed by a few slices of dried plantain
2 cups water

Mmmmmmm, I hope y'all enjoyed the recent 'WISH' Summit as much as I did - in fact I'm *still* listening to the calls now, there were so many of them and soooo much amazing info to absorb...if any of you missed the Summit or didn't hear as much of it as you would have loved to, this is a little reminder that the RawReform Giveaway prize this month is a full 'back-stage-pass' for the WISH Summit, so that the blessed winner can access the call playbacks whenever they want - yeeeeeeeeee-HAH ;)
This giveaway closes this Thursday, April 1st, so...don't be a 'fool' ;) ...get your entry in before mid-week to potentially secure your own back-stage pass to an absolute bounty of enriching interviews. Just send in your A to the following Q, to be in with a chance of winning:

"What is *your* brightest wish for the young girls of today?"

Send your entries in to angela@rawreform.com and the winner will be picked at random and with love around the start of April...thanks, we love you :)


on March the 27th I enjoyed:

1 quart water
2 cups greeeeeen juice mixed with carrot juice
bowl of leftover broccoli salad (chopped broccoli, avo/basil sauce, dulse, chopped tomatoes), followed by a few macadamia nuts with raisins
3 cups water
chunk of pineapple
shared yummy meal of guacamole, veggie crudites & flax crackers, followed by half a banana
2 mugs reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
2 cups water

I mentioned Anastasia's message above, to 'get to the land and start growing food' and wow, things are unfolding for us with such joy in that direction right now - we've been planting trees almost daily the last few weeks, plus getting the veggie garden beds ever-nearer to planting stage - YAY :) Today we picked up a whole new set of trees to plant too: dragon fruit, mulberries, macadamias, almonds...and many more on the way - we LOVE it :)))

On the subject of planting, many of you have been writing recently too, to let us know how *your* gardens and plant babies are coming along - it's especially exciting to hear how many of you have been planting up the heirloom tomato seeds that were offered last week, plus so many of you seem to have been having GREAT success with the outrageously prolific Ice Cream Bean seeds ;) Here's a message from one reader, JoAnn, about her experience so far with the Ice Cream Beans:

"I purchased two pods and planted all the seeds from one pod. I am pleased to announce I am now the custodian of more than twenty little new seedlings. I started them shortly after receiving them from you folks in late Feb they emerged March 10th.

You are so right they are prolific. Twenty something little seedlings from one pod. Now I'm waiting for at least two sets of true leaves to appear so I can move each new seedling into it's own 2 gal nursery pot. Care for the seedlings in my heated greenhouse until the weather is warm enough. Weather conditions prevailing set them out side for the summer. As I live just north of Seattle, Washington (not exactly tropical weather) it will not be until July I can safely set them out. The Ice Cream Bean trees will need to overwinter inside a greenhouse until next year. Then to new homes with really big greenhouses.

I bet I'm the only one on my street with an Ice Cream Bean forest. Thanks !

Honored to hold the light of awareness, joy and magic 

Thank you, JoAnn"

;) LOVE it ;)

All love and lightning blessings of divine alignment to you all,
Angela Stokes-Monarch. xxx

Free Complete Audio Download of "World Peace Diet" :)

WOW - in case you didn't see, last week saw a monumental occurence in the 'vegan' world, when Dr. Will Tuttle's book "World Peace Diet", all about veganism and our spiritual connections with food, went to #1 in books on Amazon.com ;O

Dr. Will did a huge promo launch, which I mentioned here last week, with masses of amazing freebies thrown in for anyone who bought the book on Amazon - what a HUGE response he received and how beautiful to highlight a book with this kind of message for the whole Amazon-shopping-world to witness ;)

Now, as a 'thank you' celebration for such a successful launch, Dr. Tuttle would love to offer everyone a yummmmmmy freebie download of the WHOLE of his book on audio, unabridged, 13.5 hours. This usually sells for $15 and right now anyone can access the whole audio book for free - you can pick your copy up HERE - enjoy and congrats again to Will for such a wonderful campaign :))))
(If you didn't get his book yet and would like to, the launch page with the freebies is still up for a while longer, over HERE...)


On March the 15th I enjoyed:

1 quart water
3 cups greeeeeeen juice mixed with pineapple juice and sugarcane juice
bowl of green mush yum: young coconut meat, red banana, cilantro, garlic, on flax crackers with pieces of dulse seaweed, followed by a few macadamias with green raisins
1.5 cups reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
3 cups water
3 cups greeeeeen juice mixed with carrot juice and sugarcane juice
flax crackers topped with dulse seaweed, tahini, chopped tomatoes, followed by some home-made halva, made by mixing together Mr. M's tahini and local raw honey
1.5 cups reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
2 cups water

Our dear friend Elaina Love is looking for an assistant for her yummy business Pure Joy Planet. Excitingly, she is relocating the business to lovely Patagonia in Arizona at the end of this month and would love to also locate a new yumster to help out with office/marketing tasks and beyond - here are the deets from Ms. Love:

Office Assistant/Sales and Marketing position available in Patagonia Arizona with a conscious, intentional, rapidly growing raw food company.

Elaina Love, raw food chef and instructor of Pure Joy Planet is looking for a high integrity, raw food educated, focused and grounded person to work 20+ hours a week beginning March 31st in Patagonia Arizona.

This is the opportunity to grow with Elaina and to help her get set up in Arizona. Position includes and is not limited to: telephone sales, marketing, filing and paperwork, newsletter organization, and product production and fulfillment. Pay is $10 to start with commissions for additional time spent on sales and marketing.

Please send your resume to Elaina at ElainaLive@gmail.com. To find out more about Elaina and her work go to www.PureJoyPlanet.com

ENJOY :)

on March the 16th I loved:

1 quart water
3 cups greeeeeeen juice with pineapple juice
'pizza' piles of flax crackers topped with avocado mush (avocado, basil, cumin, lime juice, garlic) and chopped tomatoes, followed by half a fresh lucuma fruit ;O
2 cups reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
3 cups water
slice of raw birthday cake at a 5 year old raw starlet's b-day party
a few strawberries
2 cups reishi/shilajit/ormus tea
2 cups water


on March the 17th I appreciated:

1 quart water
2 cups greeeeeeen juice mixed with sugarcane juice
bowl of chopped fruit with young coconut meat: dragon fruit, red banana, pear and a few chunks of dried banana/mango on the side from friends
2 cups water
2 cups greeeeen juice mixed with carrot juice
shared yummers meal of kale salad with Mr. M: shredded kale, avocado, dulse, tomatoes, with *AMAZING* pieces of dehydrated 'mac cheese' mixture - WOW :) Followed by a little hand-mixed yumpot of tahini with local honey
mug of herbal tea
2 cups water

We've been having *so* much fun getting our trees and gardens going here in Vilcabamba...this week I tried fresh lucuma fruit for the first time (YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM :) and planted the seeds from the fruit - yay :) SIX of the carob seeds I planted have now come up too, plus enormous amounts of the Ice Cream Bean Seeds - those things are outrageously prolific...I'd love to hear from any of you who got some of them from our store and have been growing them too...I think every single one I planted of those has come up already... ;O
Mr. M has also been planting up a fig tree FOREST this week - very exciting - see the video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjqiw2HX8NE

Excitement is building too for the raw food gathering here in Vilcabamba in May - there are over 200 members now on the "Ning" community site for this gathering - come join us if you feel drawn :) http://rawinecuador.ning.com

All love, light and grace,
Angelalalalalaalaaaaaaaaaaa. xxx

Raw Food Gardening - Grow Your Own :)

WELL, after the Equinox on Friday, it truly feels like Spring is here now :) LOVING IT :) It also happens to be Mother’s Day here in the UK today:

Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mummas :)

In honour of all this, I feel it’s prime time to get out in the garden, give gratitude to Mumma Earth and get planting some food for the coming months – which is precisely what you can see me and my mum doing in today’s episode of ‘The Raw Food World TV Show’ HERE.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3PIvCPwfG8

on March the 20th I had:

1 quart water
mug of pau d’arco tea
2 cups greeeen juice: celery, cucumber, fennel, parsley, ginger, lemon
2 cups energy soup with okra and tahini
mug of spicy teaaaaaa
3 cups water
½ a delicious pineapple
3 cups hemp milk with cardamom/cinnamon
1 cup water

While we’re on the subject of gardening, I was absolutely DELIGHTED to receive news from a couple of readers this week that it seems Michelle Obama is indeed starting to grow food on the White House lawns :) :) :) How wonderful :)
Remember in this post HERE a few weeks back, I mentioned the 'Eat The View!' campaign from Roger Doiron, to encourage the Obamas to grow food at the White House? Well, it looks like it’s all falling into place, according to these newspaper reports:

New York Times: Obamas to Plant Vegetable Garden at White House

and

MSNBC: First lady breaks ground on 'kitchen garden'

Local schoolchildren have been helping Michelle plant over 55 varieties of veggies and fruits, all raised organically :)

Check out some of these quotes from the articles:

“There’s nothing really cooler,” Mrs. Obama said, “than coming to the White House and harvesting some of the vegetables and being in the kitchen...and actually experiencing the joys of your work.”

“You can begin in your own cupboard,” she said, “by eliminating processed food, trying to cook a meal a little more often, trying to incorporate more fruits and vegetables.”

“Mrs. Obama led a cheer with the children, shouting, "Let's hear it for vegetables!" and "Let's hear it for fruits!"”

:O
It really seems there is a raw-friendly lightworker in the White House :) Thank you, Michelle... May your garden flourish and spread inspiration far and wide :)


on March the 21st I had:

1 quart water
mug of pau d’arco tea
½ a pineapple
2 cups energy soup with okra and tahini
3 cups water
3 cups greeeeen juice: celery, cucumber, fennel, endive, parsley, ginger, apple
½ an apple with 3 cups of hemp milk w/cinnamon/cardamom
2 cups water

...and it seems the inspiration and joy of growing food is indeed spreading rapidly at the moment – check out another article sent in recently by one reader – Lynn:

Dollars from dirt: Economy spurs home garden boom

You can read the whole article HERE. It’s an insightful and interesting look at the current movement to work with the land, in the wibbly economic climate :)
There are some very cool little stats in this article, such as:

* "The National Gardening Association estimates that a well-maintained vegetable garden yields a $500 average return per year. A study by Burpee Seeds claims that $50 spent on gardening supplies can multiply into $1,250 worth of produce annually."
* "Community gardens nationwide are also seeing a surge of interest. The waiting list at the 312-plot Long Beach Community Garden has nearly quadrupled -- and no one is leaving, said Lonnie Brundage, who runs the garden's membership list."
* "Seed companies say this renaissance has rescued their vegetable business after years of drooping sales. Orders for vegetable seeds have skyrocketed, while orders for ornamental flowers are flat or down... Harris Seed's Web site now gets 40,000 hits a day."

WOW :) I am SOOOOOOOOOO thrilled to see all these amaazzzzzing shifts...we truly are SO blessed :)

Well, I hope this has given you some inspiration to get out there and get planting, if you haven’t got anything in the soil yet this year ;)
ENJOY :)
All love,
Miss Stokes. xxx