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Mom-Daughter Team
Nurture Natural
Eat Well, in Good Conscience
Beauty
L
ooking to bring local and
I
n Galax, Virginia, a new family-based
business is creating wholesome, all-
organic delights home for
natural products to enhance body, spirit
dinner? Local Roots now has
and mind. Natural Beauty specializes
Executive Chef Joshua Smith’s
in bath and body products customized
new signature line of lamb sausages available for purchase. A partnership between
for each client, based upon age, skin
Border Springs Farm in Patrick Springs, Virginia and Local Roots Café in Roanoke,
conditions and allergies.
this new line of retail sausages includes three different flavors, all made with local/
“We believe that Natural Beauty
organic ingredients.
is a new opportunity for clients to care
“To have a chef as creative as Josh Smith prepare my lamb makes me feel like
for the nutritional needs of their skin
my animals had an honorable life,” says farmer Craig Rogers, who raises the Ani-
and spirit with the same care they give
mal Welfare Approved, Certified Naturally Grown grass-fed lambs.
their diet,” say the owners, a mother-
and-daughter business team with seven
Order the sausage directly from Border Springs Farm (BorderSpringsFarm.com or
years of experience in natural health
276-952-5485) or pick it up at Local Roots Café, 1731 Grandin Road,
and beauty. “That’s why our products
540-206-2610. See Border Springs Farm ad, page 30 and Local Roots ad, page 31.
are made to order and customized to
the client’s individual skin type and
needs.”
Natural Beauty is available for in-
Meet the International “Vet
dividual consultation and home parties
Squad”
in Galax, Wytheville and surrounding
areas.
D
r. Marjorie Lewter, local holistic veterinarian, is
hosting two international exchange students from
For more information, call 888-821-2526
a Polish veterinary college this summer. The connec-
or visit
NaturalBeauty1.vpweb.com.
tion came through the International Veterinary Student
See ad, page 31.
Association and the American Veterinary Medical As-
sociation. Both students are interested in rural practice
and holistic veterinary medical care.
Dr. Lewter says, “It will be an educational and
fun experience for all of us, I am sure,” and adds that
Dr. Marjorie Lewter
her 8-year-old daughter is especially excited about the
student visitors.
The “vet squad,” as Dr. Lewter calls it, will travel to homes and farms in the
Blacksburg area to see patients large and small. Dr. Lewter’s practice, Alternatives
Mobile Vet Care, serves both domestic and farm animals in a holistic manner, at
the animal’s location.
540-789-5550
SHairfield@NaturalAwakeningsMag.com
Contact Dr. Lewter at 540-544-6971 for more information. See ad, page 19.
Vitamins • Herbs • Nutritionals
Hair Analysis • Natural Therapies
Dorothy Harrell
Pharmacist
540-674-0914
4620 Lee Highway
(between Dublin & Pulaski)
Dublin, Virginia 24084
Hours: Monday thru Friday — 8 - 6 pm
e-mail:
natpharm@usit.net Saturday: 8 - 1 pm
July 2009
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