Hempzine | March 2007 | Issue #9 - IT'S PRACTICALLY EASTER
In this issue:
• Community Events
• Art Opening - Ben Frisen
• Book Review by John Norris
• SALE - on Nomads hempwear
• Featured Products
• Hemp in the News
• Hemp multimedia - new podcast!
• Hemp recipe - green smootie
• Shift Natural Fashion - Conscious Consumerism Contest
COMMUNITY EVENTS
Enter to Win a $1000.00 Shopping Spree!
Enter online here or click the image above
Call For Submissions
Earth Day Art Show presented by Hemp & Company and Greensquare Studio.
Celebrate Earth Day with artwork on the theme of environmental conservation, ecological best practices, and ecological sustainability! Submission deadline is March 10th 2007. This is an Earth Day public event hosted by Hemp & Company of Victoria BC. Artworks will be displayed in H&C stores in downtown Victoria and Vic West. All art works must be wall-mountable and ready to hang. Artists may offer the work for sale. No entry fees. Artists are asked to submit digital files of ONE OR TWO WORKS ONLY, a brief written description of the works and a cv. Selected artists will be contacted by March 20th. Show dates are April 4 to May 2.
Please submit all digital files in one email to:
Greensquare Studio
greensquare@mac.com
or by mail* to
Attn: Claudia Lorenz
Greensquare Studio
420 William St. Studio 14B
Victoria BC V9A 3Y9
*Only submissions with a SASE will be returned.
Raw Food Lecture
Victoria Boutenko will be speaking in Victoria at the Church of Truth on Monday, March 26th. The topic for this year’s raw food lecture is Nourish Your Body: Know the Signs of Malnourishment and How to Avoid It. Tickets are available at Shift Natural Fashion and The Good Planet. For more information, please visit: www.IslandVeg.com
As a result of attending last year’s Victoria Boutenko Raw Food Lecture and by incorporating her five taste balance technique, Ken was inspired to create the following (see below) green smoothie recipe. Bon Appetit!
Environmental Info night
Parkland Secondary
10640 McDonald Park Road
Sidney B.C. V8L 3X9
Phone 250 655 2700
Brian Gordon will be doing the "Inconvenient Truth" slide show, Ken Wu will talk about West Coast Rainforest preservation,
and Emily Menzies will be speaking to Sustainability.
Tuesday, March 13th. It will be from 6:45 - 9pm.
FoodRoots Sustainable Feast
Saturday March 3, 6:00 pm
Victoria, BC
Garry Oak Room - Fairfield Community Centre
1335 Thurlow
www.foodroots.ca
Tickets $25 available at:
• Vic West Farmers Market
• HEMP AND COMPANY
• SHIFT NATURAL FASHION
Vegan in Victoria?
The Victoria Vegan
www.thevictoriavegan.com
A new publication from Friends of Animals
Networking - Greendrinks
On Tuesday March.13th - earlybirds wanting quiet conversation may arrive anytime after 4:00pm before
the crowd arrives and noise levels build up.
Victoria, BC
5-7pm - Queen Mother Cafe
407 Swift Street
ART OPENING
Ben Frisen - Victoria | H&C - Craigflower Store
Photography by:
Ben Frisen
Local Victoria photographer who enjoys the outdoors and capturing images of nature.
Tuesday, March 6th
Opening from 5-7pm come and meet Ben
Show continuing through until the end of March
at H & C
422 Craigflower Rd. (250) 412-0880
Chad Thompson - Nelson | H&C Nelson Store (continuing throughout March)
Native Art - fishing scenery
Drawing pride and inspiration from his native ancestry, the artist hopes to enlighten people to the beauty and sophistication of First Nations culture and tradition.
Chad feels he is influenced constantly by his surroundings; Mother Earth is his greatest teacher.
Medium: He uses acrylic paint but also indulges in antler, stone, and is a wood sculptor.
Also, jewelry design, artifact reproduction and replicas, hide painting leather work, fine wood working and carpentry.
All picture frames are crafted by the artist.
BOOK REVIEW
Book Review - The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
by John Norris
As a few readers may remember, back in 1995 I reviewed a best-selling book, When Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten. Now, more than a decade later, Mr. Korten has written a second book The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community which completes the train of though begun in the first. This review will encompass both books.
For all of us who are observing with unease bordering on despair what is going on in our newly global world — and, even worse, how that damaged global world is increasingly affecting our quiet refuge here — these two books are of great importance. As the products of a highly intelligent master-thinker they will provide readers with clear explications of our vague fears and intuitive forebodings about the half-understood events we see all about us.
read the complete book review here
Article - Knowles Knows
by Lorna Knowles
February was a busy month at H&C. Our participation in 2 fashion shows created enough activity to brighten up the rainy winter days and provide a focus for the month.
On Tuesday the 20th, H&C and Shift Natural Fashions modeled our Hemp Blend, Bamboo and Soy clothing in a Fashion Show presented by the interact Club of Oak Bay High School which is associated with the Rotarians. Funds were raised to assist the Cotlands Aids Orphanage in South Africa through the admission price and a silent auction to which many local businesses contributed. Thank you to the Victoria Event Centre for contributing a percentage of the bar receipts to the cause.
A few days later, we geared up again for The Ethical Purchasing Forum at U Vic. and on Saturday night, with the assistance of our great volunteer models Dierdre, Jocelyn, Roger, Troy, Angela, Kristi, Cloe, Crystal and the amazing stilt walker, Andrea we attempted to entice a 100 or so practiced fashion resistors to succumb to the benefits of wearing our natural, durable, and sustainable clothing. Time will tell if we conveyed our message. Many of the attendees received prizes for answering our M.C. Bill Finley's skill testing questions. After the show, a marimba band got everyone on their feet to conclude the Fun Filled Forum.
If you haven't heard yet, a contest is being held to name the 500 Johnson St. Block and a draw is being held for a $1000 shopping spree in participating shops. We'd love to see you get the chance to win.
SALE - NOMADS HEMPWEAR
Hemp and Company (Victoria / Nelson / Online)
up to 40%off
Nomads hempwear items - shop online!
Hemp and Company (Nelson)
30% off
Our men's H & C jeans
Featured Products
Hemp and Company (Victoria)
BUY ONE, GET THE SECOND ONE FOR $5.00
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MEN'S SPECIALEfforts hoodies $39.99
Satori Hemp and Organic cotton Men's boxers $19.95 in white and green
AND Satori Hemp and Organic cotton socks $12.95
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NEW! Vancouver Mahadevi design!
HEMP IN THE NEWS
Letter From Frankfurt: Bright Green Fashion, Fair Trade Clothing
07 August 2006
WORLDCHANGING
Hemp is Booming Says Manitoba Harvest
23 March 2006
TREEHUGGER
HEMP MULTIMEDIA
What is a Podcast?
Very simply, it's a way of broadcasting audio, video, text or image files. Our Hemp and Company podcast contains only audio files, covering thoughtful lectures based on industrial hemp. A Podcast is a media file that is distributed by subscription (free) over the internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers.
What is a Feed?
A feed is a list of episodes (and their URLs) of the show that may be accessed. This list is published in RSS format ('Really Simple Syndication') which provides other information, such as publishing date, titles of the episode, and accompanying text descriptions of the series and each of its episodes.
H&C PODCAST - Hemp History Parts One and Two
Listen to the two newest parts of a lecture series by Bill Finley on Hemp History
The future is bright, the future is hemp
04 Oct 2006
BBC
*Requires Real Audio Player
Radio Shropshire's Nigel Dolman met former farmer John Beasley who believes that he might have the answer for Shropshire's ailing sugar beet industry.
HEMP RECIPE
The following recipe for green smoothie is a staple in our household. Ken generally makes a full Vitamix container of this in the morning and we drink at least a large glass of this for breakfast (sometimes more) and have some more at lunch time or at other times of the day. (Recipe provided by Ken Steele and Linda Chan from VIVA-Raw)
Ken’s Power Green Smoothie Recipe:
3 cups water
3 large (or 4 small) bananas, cut up
1 apple (cored), cut up in four
1 tbsp. pumpkin seed
1 tbsp. flax seed
4 rounded tbsp. of hemp seed (approximately ¼ cup) *
1 slice of lemon (minus seeds, but including the rind if you’re using a Vitamix blender)
3 to 4 stalks of celery, cut up in bite size pieces *
Green leafy vegetable of your choice, torn or cut up - use small amount at first then build up to 4 cups (approximately a head of lettuce or half a bunch of kale)
2 to 4 cups of frozen fruit of your choice (berries, peaches, mangos)
1 teaspoon of maca powder (optional) *
Place ingredients in a Vitamix or blender and process not more than 30 seconds at a time. Running blender too long at a time heats ups unit and wears out the motor in addition to destroying the healthful enzymes that provide us with nutritional and digestive benefits.
Discussion of Green Smoothie Ingredients:
Hemp Seeds: Hemp seeds offer a balanced and very desirable EFA (Essential Fatty Acids) ratio of omega 6 to omega 3. The protein in hemp seed is also exceptionally high
quality in terms of amino acid (AA) composition and protein structure, the latter affecting digestibility and utilization by the human body. Hemp protein contains all of the essential amino acids in more nutritionally significant amounts and at a ratio closer to a “complete” source of protein (like meat, milk and eggs) than all other oil seeds except soy.
Celery: The minerals contained in celery juice make the body's use of calcium more effective, balancing the blood's pH. It is also a great electrolyte source.
Green Leafy Vegetables: Quantity depends on choice (e.g. leaf lettuce, romaine lettuce, kale, chard, collard greens, other Chinese greens such as gai-lan, bok choy). The darker the green, the better for you, but use small quantities at first and build up to about 4 cups (approximately a head of lettuce or half a bunch of kale). Greens are an important source of vitamins, minerals and protein.
Maca Powder: This is a super food which boosts energy, stamina and mental function. It also provides the body with many healthful nutrients, including potassium and calcium.
Green Smoothies are:
Great tasting
Ready in minutes
Easy to prepare
Easy to digest
Nutrient dense
Green smoothies provide all the vitamins, minerals and protein the body needs.
Victoria Boutenko’s , award winning book Green for Life reveals the unique healing potential of green smoothies derived from her extensive research into achieving optimal health on a raw food diet. This book also documents testimonies of her research subjects (Roseburg Study), who drank 1 quart of her green smoothie every day for one month in addition to their regular diet. To Victoria’s great satisfaction, everybody who participated for the duration of the study, achieved substantial health benefits despite their different dietary habits.
SHIFT NATURAL FASHION
Conscious Consumerism Contest:
Also come up to Shift in Fernwood and fill out one of our market surveys for your chance to win a 20 dollar gift card! The survey asks a series of questions about the sort of products we carry, and asks you to rate them in order of importance to you. This is a great opportunity to provide us with some very valuable feedback, and your comments could help to shape the community by offering suggestions about what you'd like to see in the square.
