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ABOUT ME
Like a lot of companies on the Internet today, this is a one person company.
I wear all the hats; product design and development, production, shipping, marketing, website management, and customer service.
The truly great thing about that is I am totally responsible. I don't have to worry about mistakes made by my employees as I have in the past. I have always been a happy creator but I have never really liked marketing. So the Internet is like a miracle to me. To be able to reach my niche market so easily makes me feel very appreciative.
I have been selling sprouters for over 4 years now and have many happy and appreciative customers. I don't advertise and I don't promote anywhere but here on my website. Growing wheatgrass is not for everyone so I don't want to talk anyone into it.
This is actually the bio that I wrote at the beginning of my site. I thought I would leave it as a kind of time capsule and put more up-to-date ones on my other sites as I create them.
I have been working in the alternative healing field since the seventies, mostly in the area of body/mind work. I have been an energy healer, a massage practitioner and a Feldenkrais Practitioner. I wrote a book, "Come Home to Your Body, A Workbook for Women", which was published in 4 languages but is now out of print.
Lately I have worked extensively with women going into and through menopause, moving into the Wise Woman phase of their lives. I have also done a lot of transformational psychology and Neuro-Linguistic Programming. In the past I have been more movement and psychology oriented than nutritional, although I have eaten in a reasonably healthy way and taken multiple supplements for years.
I have been a potter, sculptor and artist. This peony is one of my favorite paintings.
All my life I have had an interest in gardening and creating healing spaces. I created a copy of the Chartres Labyrinth in the garden at my last house to use as a healing and meditation circle.
Mostly I have just followed where my interests led me throughout my life, and my two major interests have always been creativity and health. I feel truly blessed to have so much creative energy but I also think there is a strong link between creativity and health.
When I am feeling the most vibrantly healthy and alive I am at my most creative in every way.
One of the most important roles in my life right now is grandmother. I am loving it. It is no fun moving into the Wise Woman stage when you don't have grandchildren. Your own kids don't suddenly think you are so wise. But, for a child, a good Grandma is one of the wisest, most loving and most important people in her life. It is such an opportunity to fill your heart to overflowing.
My daughter-in-law has been studying alternative nutrition since she decided to get pregnant and she is the person who started me on wheatgrass. With initial resistance on my part, I might add - she made me do it!
Drinking something green that smelled like my lawn didn't sit right with me at first. I had managed to avoid it since my first health regime in the seventies with Adelle Davis. I can't tell you how often down the years friends have offered me wheatgrass juice and I always turned up my nose. I was healthy enough and that was going too far. I have to say that changed after menopause. I started getting heavier, slower, lazier and less healthy little by little. It crept up on me. Now I am back to 120 lbs with lots of energy.
Isabella is five years old now and thriving. Yvette really credits wheatgrass juice with an important role in her own and her children's good health. Back then, when she first got into it, she was determined to have wheatgrass every day for her family. She read that the optimum dose was 2 ounces a day and in San Francisco that is $1.50 per ounce.
So when she got me hooked I couldn't imagine all of us paying 15 bucks per tray for something that anyone could grow for less than a dollar. I looked online but there was nothing on the market. Since I have had gardens for years, done drip irrigation, built myself greenhouses; I know a lot about growing things, designing things and making things. I was sure I could build home wheatgrass sprouters at a price that would make sense.
Wouldn't it be great if a wheatgrass sprouter became as common as a microwave in our unhealthy country. We could all drink live green juice for pennies a day and move to a higher level of vitality and loving, sharing energy.
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