Through the life force, I have achieved youth, strength, enthu­si­asm, and pur­pose of mind, body, and soul I shall use this glo­ri­ous power for great good. Paul Bragg

With the infi­nite life force within me all things are pos­si­ble. Paul C. Bragg

The life force is burn­ing keenly in my body, and I have the power through my mind and heart to direct it wher­ever I desire. Paul C. Bragg

Very Small Monkeys

They are native to rain-forests of Brazil, Peru, Bolivia,  Ecuador and Colom­bia .  Fin­ger mon­keys are, as a mat­ter of fact, pygmy mar­mosets. They are also known by the names “pocket mon­key” and “tiny lion.” This cute lit­tle pri­mate hugs and grips on to your fin­ger so tight that it pulls your heart­strings and you wish you could take it home with you.

The fin­ger mon­key is the tini­est liv­ing pri­mate in the world. It’s so small that it can hold on to your fin­ger. These pri­mates belong to the fam­ily Cal­litrichi­dae, species Cebuella and genus C. pygmaea.

Fin­ger Mon­keys — World’s small­est primate

A walk through Patricia’s Santa Bar­bara Garden

Whim­si­cal Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls over­see Patricia’s Garden

Patri­cia asks you all to Dream and live those dreams

Beau­ti­ful gar­den flow­ers in bloom

Patricia’s High Soci­ety Tree Roses

Click on link below to view more pho­tos of Patricia’s Roses.
 Please be sure to lis­ten to the music as you view.

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100 Years of Healthy Food Innovation

I was blessed to be at the Nat­ural Food Expo in Ana­heim March 2012, and run around with about 50,000 health seek­ers. Well, some are seek­ing other things than health, like money, fame or just a good time. One thing that struck me is the var­i­ous ways orga­ni­za­tions are struc­tured in the move­ment. As a CEO level con­sul­tant to many brands I enjoy pro­vid­ing lead­er­ship, direc­tion, cap­i­tal, busi­ness devel­op­ment and guid­ance, I study the win­ners, losers, hang­ers on and long time lead­ers. I am happy to say that the cot­tage indus­try side of the busi­ness is still thriv­ing. The Cor­po­ratism that many brands are under is also quite evi­dent. And the rare and fas­ci­nat­ing fam­ily dynasty is still around, albeit in quite a lim­ited way. While many sell out, wit­ness New Chap­ter sell­ing to PnG   this month, the fam­i­lies of the Bron­ners, Kushis and Braggs remain true to their roots. The One Hun­dredth Anniver­sary of Bragg’s pretty much says it all. A great party, a fab­u­lous mis­sion and a leader that just can­not give enough. Amaz­ing what a dynasty built on Apple Cider Vine­gar can cre­ate! Patri­cia Bragg is truly a shin­ing light and as she is in her foun­da­tion years of cre­at­ing endow­ments for oth­ers to ben­e­fit from, it is a true joy to feel her true spirit. A spirit which shines through on this photo we shared at Expo.
Love you Patri­cia! See you on Dia­mond Head soon ….

Patri­cia with article’s
Author, Bo Rinaldi

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RYE BREAD

3 cups 100% rye pas­try flour

1 tsp dry yeast dis­tilled water

1 Tbsp Bragg Organic Olive Oil

2 Tbsps sauer­kraut, drain (optional)

1¾ cups luke­warm

dis­tilled water

1 Tbsp raw honey

Dis­solve yeast in luke­warm water; add olive oil, honey (to pre­vent stick­ing, oil mea­sur­ing cup or spoon) and then the rye flour. Mix and knead to a dough on rye-floured board. Add two table­spoons drained sauer­kraut (optional). Cover and let rise in a warm place until dou­bled in bulk. Shape into loaves. Place in oiled bread pan; let rise again and bake in hot oven (375-400°F) for 20 min­utes. Reduce heat to mod­er­ate (about350°F). Con­tinue to bake 40–50 min­utes. Makes two loaves.

I know not the mean­ing of hunger. The life force within me and the life ele­ments have com­bined to feed me, body and soul. Paul C. Bragg

Patricia’s Healthy Santa Bar­bara Lifestyle

Here’s Patri­cia feed­ing birds by East Beach

Patri­cia with Cutty enjoy­ing Healthy Veg­e­tar­ian Breakfast

Patri­cia at Santa Bar­bara Mission

Patricia’s Santa Bar­bara farm

Patri­cia relax­ing on old stage­coach bench

Blamed for Bee Col­lapse, Mon­santo Buys Lead­ing Bee Research Firm

Anthony Guc­cia­rdi 
Nat­u­ral­So­ci­ety
April 19, 2012

Mon­santo, the mas­sive biotech­nol­ogy com­pany being blamed for con­tribut­ing to the dwin­dling bee pop­u­la­tion, has bought up one of the lead­ing bee col­lapse research orga­ni­za­tions. Recently banned from Poland with one of the pri­mary rea­sons being that the company’s genet­i­cally mod­i­fied corn may be dev­as­tat­ing the dying bee pop­u­la­tion, it is evi­dent that Mon­santo is under seri­ous fire for their role in the down­fall of the vital insects. It is there­fore quite appar­ent why Mon­santo bought one of the largest bee research firms on the planet.

It can be found in pub­lic com­pany reports hosted on main­stream media that Mon­santo scooped up the Bee­o­log­ics firm back in Sep­tem­ber 2011. Dur­ing this time the cor­re­la­tion between Monsanto’s GM crops and the bee decline was not explored in the main­stream, and in fact it was hardly touched upon until Pol­ish offi­cials addressed the seri­ous con­cern amid the mon­u­men­tal ban. Own­ing a major orga­ni­za­tion that focuses heav­ily on the bee col­lapse and is rec­og­nized by the USDA for their mis­sion state­ment of “restor­ing bee health and pro­tect­ing the future of insect pol­li­na­tion”
could be very advan­ta­geous for Monsanto.

In fact, Bee­l­og­ics’ com­pany infor­ma­tion states that the pri­mary goal of the firm is to study the very col­lapse dis­or­der that is thought to be a result — at least in part — of Monsanto’s own creations.

What’s more, Bee­l­og­ics is rec­og­nized by the USDA, the USDA-ARS, the media, and ‘lead­ing ento­mol­o­gists’ world­wide. The USDA, of course, has a great rela­tion­ship with Mon­santo. The gov­ern­ment agency has gone to great lengths to ensure that Monsanto’s finan­cial gains con­tinue to soar, going as far as to give the com­pany spe­cial speed approval for their newest genet­i­cally engi­neered seed vari­eties. It turns out that Mon­santo was not get­ting quick enough approval for their crops, which have been linked to severe organ dam­age and other sig­nif­i­cant health concerns.

Steve Cen­sky, chief exec­u­tive offi­cer of the Amer­i­can Soy­bean Asso­ci­a­tion, states it quite plainly. It was a move to help Mon­santo and other biotech­nol­ogy giants squash com­pe­ti­tion and make prof­its. After all, who cares about pub­lic health?

It appears that when Mon­santo can­not answer for their envi­ron­men­tal dev­as­ta­tion, they buy up a com­pany that may poten­tially be their ‘experts’ in deny­ing any link between their crops and  bee decline.

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