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Celebrating Green Elk Rapids with Recycled Animals

Andy — Mon, 20 May 2013 18:38:31 +0000

Green Elk Rapids Days

Celebrating Green Elk Rapids with “Trashformations”

Customers visiting our Elk Rapids store have really been enjoying the “trashformations” in front of our place in Downtown Elk Rapids. For the past few weeks the entire village has been celebrating “Green ER” or “Green Elk Rapids”.

This month long event encourages recycling and “going green”. 2013 Green ER started on April 21st and is running through May 29. The entire month is filled with fun activities and events and the “trashformations”. The trashformations are creations made from recycled and repurposed material with a “green” theme. Our building was nicked named the “Green Zoo” by two local girls. The reason is we have a number of “trashformation” animals outside including flamingos, giraffe’s, an elephant, a deer and even an alligator.

All of the animals were made from repurposed and recyclable material including bubble wrap, plastic bottles, heating hose, milk jugs, duct tape and more. Check out the entire collection of animals from Green Elk Rapids 2013 at this page on our website.

We even have a great video of all of the animals on the Green Elk Rapids page, too.

Cherry Juice Health Benefits – Sleep Benefits

Andy — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:28:24 +0000

With the warm weather fast approaching many of us will be balancing work and summer activities. In addition the days will soon be getting longer too. This means more daylight, thus reducing the amount of time per day our body produces melatonin. Since melatonin is naturally produced in the body and exposure to light actually reduces the amount of melatonin in our system, the longer days may have some people getting less sleep. With this being the case, it makes sense to take a look a natural ways to enjoy a more restful night’s sleep during the summer months.

One natural choice is to add a glass of tart cherry juice to your daily routine. The reason for this suggestion is due to a study published from the University of Rochester, University of Pennsylvania and the VA Center of Canandaigua. According to the information in the study, the researchers worked with 15 older adults during the four week study period. During the first two-week stage of the research, the participants were asked to drink a glass (8 ounces of pure tart cherry juice) twice a day. They drank a glass once in the morning and the second glass in the evening. After the initial two weeks, the participants were then asked to drink a placebo drink, containing no cherry juice, for the remaining two weeks.

After the full four weeks were finished the data from the research was collected and analyzed. The results indicated an increase in a healthy night’s sleep when the participants drank the cherry juice. The researchers found the adults enjoyed about 17 more minutes of sleep, on average, during the two weeks of drinking the cherry juice.

So what are the Benefits in Cherry Juice?

As mentioned above, melatonin is naturally produced in the body and contributes to help regulate the rhythmic pattern of the body. It helps with wakefulness during the day and sleepiness during the night time hours. Tart cherries, is the top source of naturally occurring melatonin and to date no other fruit or vegetable has been discovered to provide more natural melatonin then tart cherries. This means by enjoying a glass of cherry juice twice daily may help to maintain healthy sleep patterns and help you get a better night’s sleep.

So take a peek at the melatonin levels in different tart cherry products. The following information is a result of research conducted by Dr. Russell Reiter. Dr. Reiter is considered the “Dean of Melatonin” by his peers. The reason for the nickname is one area of his career is the amount of research he has published on melatonin.

Melatonin in Tart Cherries for Sleep Benefits

Cherry Products Melatonin Levels

Fresh Tart Cherries: Up to 13.5 nanograms (ng) of Melatonin per gram
Cherry Juice Concentrate: Has up to 10 times more the Melatonin per gram when compared to the raw fruit.
Cherry Powder 137+ ng per gram

* Result conducted by Dr. Russell Reiter – *Cherry powder is used to make tart cherry capsules

To learn more about Dr. Russell Reiter and Melatonin, check out this article on Cherry Juice Sleep Benefits and Melatonin

As indicated by the information in the chart above, a glass of cherry juice has about 135 nanograms of melatonin and the tart cherry powder even has more. We use tart cherry powder in our Fruit Advantage Tart Cherry Joint Formula – tart cherry capsules. So as you enjoy the long days of summer, consider adding a glass of cherry juice or tart cherry capsules to your daily routine to get an great night’s sleep, too.

Happy Cinco DeMayo – New Tortilla Chips from Traverse Bay Farms

Andy — Sun, 05 May 2013 19:36:41 +0000

Celebrate Cinco DeMayo - Exclusive Announcement and Offer to our Blog Readers and Facebook Friends. – We are announcing a free bag of the new the soon to be released tortilla chips to complement our award winning line of fruit and gourmet salsa !

What other way to celebrate this fun holiday than with tortilla chips and salsa! In just a few days, our customers will be able to celebrate with the Traverse Bay Farms gluten-free tortilla chips!

Great news…we are announcing the launch of a new corn-based tortilla chip. These new tortilla chips are gluten-free and also free of trans fat. This means they are ideal for those looking to enjoy gluten-free and trans fat free foods. They will soon be available from our website. Also, to help celebrate the launch of this complimentary product to our award winning line of fruit and gourmet salsas, we will soon be offering a free 4.5 oz. bags of these gluten-free chips when you buy 6 jars of salsa. While this offer will not be available to the general public for another few weeks, we are making this offer exclusively to the readers of our blog and Facebook friends in the near future. So keep an eye out for another post that will announce when you’ll be able to get a free bag of the new Traverse Bay Farms Corn Tortilla Chips when you place an order for the salsa.

The Traverse Bay Farms tortilla chips are available in two sizes. These sizes include 4.5 oz. and 12 oz.. The smaller 4.5 oz. bags are ideal for taking to the beach, for a summer picnic or during an office break. While the larger 12 oz. bag is just the right size to enjoy with family and friends while entertaining, boating on the lake or watching a summer baseball game.

These tortilla chips can be enjoyed with any type of recipe. They are ideal for simply scooping salsa, making nachos or you can even crush a few of the chips and sprinkle on top of a taco salsa. The options to enjoy these gluten-free corn chips are endless. Keep an eye for the ability to get your free bag when you purchase 6 jars of our award winning salsa.

Traverse Bay Farms Supports Run Across Michigan

Andy — Sat, 04 May 2013 22:35:30 +0000

Roger Bonga, also a friend of our’s, is currently doing a solo 350+ mile run across the entire State of Michigan. He is running to raise money to fight Parkinson’s disease. Roger started is running the long way across Michigan.

Here started in Sault Ste Marie on May 3rd and running across the Mackinac Bridge to the lower Peninsula. After he crosses the Straits of Mackinac he’ll continue his run down the remainder of the state to the Michigan / Indiana line.

Here is a list of his current Itinerary (could change)

May 2nd Stay overnight in Sault Ste Marie
May 3rd Sault Ste Marie to corner of Mackinaw Trail Rd and Dixie Highway Rd– 37 miles
May 4th Mackinaw trail & Dixie highway to Pellston Lodge, Pellston, MI – 33 miles
May 5th Pellston Lodge to Boyne Highlands Resort, Boyne Falls, MI – 35 miles
May 6th Boyne Falls to Kalkaska Grananada Inn, Kalkaska, mi – 35 miles
May 7th Kalkas…ka to Cadillac – 39 miles
May 8th Cadillac to Big Rapids Quality Inn – 41 miles May 9th
Big Rapids to Rockford – 36 miles
May 10th Rockford to Yankee Springs area – 34 miles
May 11th Yankee Springs area to Portage Quality Inn –35 miles
May 12th Portage to Finish – 35 ish miles

Check out the information here and the link to this Run Across Michigan Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/runacrossmichigan

http://support.pdf.org/page.aspx?pid=502&tab=0&frsid=678 www.rogerbonga.com

Roger will be using the Fruit Advantage Tart Cherry Powder to help with his sore muscles. Running 350+ miles to raise money and awareness for Parkinson’s disease is great and please share this information too!

Twilight Saga with Traverse Bay Farms

Andy — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:52:13 +0000

The Wolves are howling…Kiowa Gordon, known as Embry Call and part of the shapeshifter wolfpack in the Twilight Saga. He starred in all three of the Twilight Saga’s including:

The Twilight Saga: New Moon
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn

He’s enjoying some of our tart cherries and with our Fruit Advantage Joint Formula Tart Cherry.

Recommended Dosage of Cherry Juice

Andy — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 18:57:54 +0000

We get a lot of soon-to-be customers contacting us and asking “What is the recommended dosage of cherry juice?” Being an all-natural product, their is no official daily recommended dosage. However, the suggested dose of the Fruit Advantage tart cherry juice concentrate is one ounce of juice concentrate to seven ounces of water. The reason for this 7-to-1 mixture is this is the correct mixture that the U.S. Government to qualify to make a 100% pure drink. Basically, this suggested mixture amount allows us to advertise that the reconstituted concentrate makes a 100% pure glass of juice.

However, you can always mix the ounce of the cherry concentrate with 4 ounces of water for a stronger cherry flavor or dilute it more. For example, mix in 10 ounces of water with the cherry concentrate.

No matter how you dilute the Fruit Advantage Cherry Juice Concentrate with water, the most important thing to remember is to get the full ounce of the concentrate daily. This amount is what most of the research has been conducted on regarding the natural health benefits of the tart cherry. In addition, if participants in a specific research study are drinking the cherry juice, reconstituted from the concentrate, they are usually consuming an 8 ounce glass to be studied for the research.

The intake of an 8 ounce glass, or multiple glasses, of the cherry juice allows the researchers to standardize the research findings and provide a solid understanding of the final results by both their peers in the research community and public in general.

For example, it would extremely confusing if cherry researchers used arbitrary amounts of the cherry juice. This would not only cause confusion but wouldn’t provide much insight to the dosage of cherry juice an individual should drink to receive the greatest benefits.

So to answer the original question, the dosage of cherry juice is to mix ounce of the cherry concentrate with 7 ounces of water to make a 100% pure glass of tart cherry juice. Learn about the Natural Health Benefits of Cherry Juice Today!