and carotenes because all the nutrients are food grown. New Chapter is the company that creates the anti-inflammatory supplement Zyflamend. Two capsules twice a day really helps to keep inflammatory pain under control.


Nordic Naturals has


so many different omega-3 formulas, all pharmaceutical grade, triglyceride form, and New Chapter has so many amazing antioxidant and supportive supplements—they are a great fit for summer growth activities.


Thinking about our vegetables and fruits growing visibly in the ground and hanging from our fruit trees makes me remember going several years ago to a seminar given by Chris Killham (aka “the Medicinal Hunter,” an ethnobotanist who teaches botany through Amherst College in Massachusetts). Chris spent several months through two harvests and plantings of maca in the 14,000-foot- high Peruvian Andes Mountains, living with the native peoples and learning


In Peru the indigenous people


eat pounds of this herb/food as a part of their diet, so you can generally use as much or as little as you like without thinking, “Am I taking too much?” We carry many Gaia Herb


from them how they cultivate, plant, and harvest this amazing root. It turns out that maca is a large part of the Peruvian people’s diet in that mountainous region and is used as a food and medicine. Flash-forward to present day and Gaia Herbs Company imports Peruvian maca into the United States, processes it, tests it for purity and quality, and here we now offer certified organic maca powder on sale at S&S Produce!! Maca is an extremely nutritious plant that is advertised to reduce stress, promote healthy energy, and increase libido (male and female).


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products and this August, perhaps while you are reading this article, S&S Produce is sending one of my coworkers in the vitamin department to the Gaia Herbs farms in North Carolina! How exciting! I’m sure he will have much to share when he returns.


In July 2004 (10 years ago!),


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