Monday (correction FRIDAY), January 17, 2020
6:00 – 8:00 PM

Location:

Natural Grocers
201 Coburg Road
Eugene, OR 97401

Topic:

We are having a Gut Health theme for January!  Our potluck topic is Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) and our DVD is the GAPS diet.

Have you heard of SIBO? Wondering if you have it and how to treat it? Aurora will give a brief overview of SIBO according to the latest research. She’ll discuss how she has improved her symptoms by eating more like traditional people.

What to bring?

If you have been coming regularly, please consider upping your game!  Bring more food or something different or special.  If this is your first time, its fine to bring something easy.

The Wise Traditions Diet includes whole, unrefined foods such as:

Wild Seafood

Pastured Eggs

Vegetables & Fruits

Fermented Foods

Raw Dairy

Butter & Traditional Fats

Pastured Poultry

Grass-fed Meats

Bone Broth

Properly Prepared Grains & Legumes

Sourdough Bread

Crispy Nuts & Seeds

Bring enough to share with everyone and be sure to include some traditional fats!

Children and guests welcome.  Please bring dishes and serving utensils for your dish.

Thanks!

For more information see: Potlucks

by Becky Plotner

Recorded at the Wise Traditions 2019 Conference

Friday, January 24, 2020

DVD begins at 6:00 PM

Location:

Natural Grocers
201 Coburg Road
Eugene, OR 97401

Description:

GAPS, Stage by Stage will thoroughly cover the reasons why we do each GAPS foods at each stage, laying out the protocol in an easy-to-follow manner. GAPS is all about reducing inflammation so the body begins to speak to you, telling you what to do. When you support the body properly, it can repair itself. When we miss these signs, it can prolong the journey.

Becky Plotner, ND is a board-certified naturopathic doctor, through the American Naturopathic Certification Board. She is a traditional naturopath, a certified GAPS practitioner and doctor of pastoral sciences. She is a practitioner classified as literate in Lyme and literate in iodine.

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Have you ever wanted to spend more time getting to know all the interesting people you meet at a Eugene Chapter potluck?  Have you ever wanted to hang out with people who share your interest in traditional food?  Have you ever wanted to drink tea, make arts & crafts and visit with like-minded friends?

I have.  So I created an evening for just such an event.  Please join me:

Tuesday, January 28, 2020
6:00 – 8:00 PM

Location:

Natural Grocers
201 Coburg Road
Eugene, OR 97401

Bring:

Bring your crochet, knitting, doodling and drawing supplies or any other art supplies (that you can carry and clean up).  You don’t have to feel artistic, just have fun.  I’ll bring adult coloring pages and markers, herbal tea and conversation!

Topic:

Our topic will be anything we want to discuss!  We will check in with those of you who made tallow balm at our last demo and see if anyone has any questions.  Anything in the Food, Farming and Healing Arts arena is fair game.

Children and guests are welcome.

See you there!

– Lisa

And as always, check out the online version of this newsletter and our local Eugene area website for updates, link corrections and many more resources.

Eugene Area Resources:

• Web: eugenewestonaprice.org
• Instagram: eugene_chapter_wapf
• Facebook: facebook.com/wapfeugene

Enjoy!

– Lisa

Friday, August 9, 2019

6:00 – 8:00 PM

Location:

Natural Grocers
201 Coburg Road
Eugene, OR 97401

Topic: The Benefits of Saturated Fats

In contrast to the modern low-fat fad diet proponents, we encourage the use of animal fats and tropical oils. Traditional people valued fat and went to great expense to insure that they had enough of it. Butter, lard, tallow, coconut oil, palm oil, olive oil, are all wonderful fats and oils to include in the diet. Small amounts of cold-pressed flax or other fragile polyunsaturated oils are good to include, but are needed in much smaller quantities than the stable saturated and monounsaturated fats. Fat content of traditional diets ranged from 30% to 80% of calories, but only a small percentage was from polyunsaturated oils. Most fat in traditional diets was the saturated and monounsaturated fats from animals and tropical oils. All natural fats and oils contain a mix of saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated.

We will discuss where, why and how to include saturated fats in your traditional diet.  This is part of our introductory series.  Please bring a guest!

For more information:

• Fats & Oils
• Know Your Fats: Saturated Fats

What to bring?

Anything from Nourishing Traditions, the Healthy 4 Life booklet or Recipes of the Week would be wonderful.  A simple homemade meal made from scratch using natural fats is always a great contribution.

Some examples include: a roasted chicken or other meat, meat and vegetable casserole, a dish made with soaked grains, soup using homemade bone broth, pastured egg quiche or other egg dish, organic salad with homemade dressing, steamed or roasted vegetables with butter or cream sauce, fermented vegetables, fresh or cooked fruit with raw whipped cream.  If you come to the potlucks regularly, please try to bring a dish from a different category every so often.

Bring enough to share with everyone and be sure to include some traditional fats!

Children and guests welcome.  Please bring dishes and serving utensils for your dish.  Thanks!

For more information see: Potlucks

Monthly events to educate, inform, and empower.

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Tuesday, August 13th

Informed Consent & Corporate Malfeasance

Jennifer Margulis, PH.D. – Award winning science journalist
Luke Yamaguchi, MA, NTP, – Nutritionist at Gut Resolution

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Tuesday, September 17th

Constitutional Rights & Civil Liberties

Robert M. Snee, JD, Anna Kasachev, Dominika Boianoff – Russian Old
Beliver Community, & Angela C Miceli Stout, Ph.D.

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Tuesday, October 22nd

Oregon’s Youth & Mental Health:
The Dangers of the Push for Exclusionary School Mandates

Jenifer Trivelli, M.S. – Educational Consultant
Continuing education credits available

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Time & Location:

6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
OsteoStrong
315 W. Broadway St, Eugene Oregon 97401

Presented by:

Lane County Parents for Inclusion Not Exclusion (LCPINE)
www.lanecopine.com
LaneCoPINE@gmail.com, 541-357-7320
All events are free; donations accepted and seating is limited – first come, first served.

Flyer:

Download: PINE_Flyer

For more information see:

Weston A. Price Foundation:

• Vaccinations
• High Aluminum Levels Contaminate Brains of Autistic Children
• CDC vaccine excipients

Date:

Tuesday, August 20, 2019

6:00 PM

Details:

Are you thinking about keto and scared of giving up bread? Are you on keto and missing bread?  Join us and learn how to make a popular keto staple called fat head dough. It’s easy! Once you’ve learned it, we’ll teach you the minor adjustments it takes to make this dough into bagels, burger buns, and even pretzels.

Presented by: Aurora and Brian Gerber

Aurora and Brian Gerber have loved cooking all their adult lives. They have been cooking all their meals from scratch according to Weston Price principles for three years. Treating SIBO and parasites, they have been on many healing diets together including the candida diet, the low FODMAP diet, the GAPS diet, and finally keto. Brian and Aurora have been on keto for one year.

Location:

Natural Grocers
201 Coburg Road
Eugene, OR 97401

For more information see:

• Keto Recipes

by: Marianne Rothschild, M.D.

Friday, August 23, 2019

DVD begins at 6:00 PM

Location:

Natural Grocers
201 Coburg Road
Eugene, OR 97401
www.naturalgrocers.com/store-location/eugene

Description:

We cannot fully benefit from good nutrition without a properly functioning digestive system. In this DVD Dr. Marianne Rothschild discusses in detail the key components involved in digestion. She will review common digestive malfunctions such as IBS, gall bladder problems, leaky gut, food sensitivities and candida. Attendants will learn how to discern particular problems and ways to resolve them.

Presenter info:

Marianne Rothschild, M.D., is a family physician who has practiced holistic medicine for over twenty-five years. She blends many traditions of healing in her work including herbs, nutrition, lifestyle modification, homeopathy, flower essences, aromatherapy in addition to conventional Western medicine.

She received her medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1990 with honors in emergency medicine and community and preventative medicine.  She completed her family practice residency at Chestnut Hill Hospital in Philadelphia.

After moving to Maryland, Dr. Rothschild worked with the Johns Hopkins Medical Services Corporation before establishing her own practice. She has grown children, many grandchildren and currently has a private practice in Maryland and California. Her book, Dancing with the Rhythms of Life: A Holistic Doctor’s Guide, will be available in 2018. More information can be found on her website: www.mariannerothschildmd.com

Cost: Free (Donations requested)

Donations of any amounts to the Eugene Chapter, Weston A. Price Foundation are appreciated.
$5-10 suggested for those who can afford it, and $1-4 for low-income.
(Please also volunteer to help the Eugene Chapter).

Want to see the DVD, but can’t attend?

Purchase your own copy from Fleetwood Onsite Recording:

31398 – The Rhythm of Digestion $18.00

Format: MP4 Video file download
Includes: Audio & Slides

Wise Traditions 2019

The 20^th Annual Conference of the Weston A. Price Foundation

Ancestral Health Meets Modern Science

November 15-17 * north of Dallas, Texas

wisetraditions.org

All registered by July 31^st will be entered into our drawing for $100 refund on your registration.

Join us in Texas to meet and learn from these impressive speakers:

Informative practical talks:

• Sally Fallon Morell, MA, author of Nourishing Traditions
• Becky Plotner, ND, expert on GAPS
• Janine Farzin, expert on school lunches
• Esther Gokhale, author of 8 Steps to a Pain-free Back
• Leslie Bobb and Lyndsay Gutierrez, fermentation experts
• Monica Corrado, MA, CNC, traditional food chef
• Sandeep Agarwal, expert on ghee & Indian cuisine
• Andrew Gardner, expert on animal fat skin care
• Bloggers panel with Carrie Vitt, Kelly Moeggenborg & Mandy Blume

Interesting science-based talks:

• Peter Ballerstedt, PhD, expert on ruminant agriculture
• Natalie Campbell, vaccine researcher
• Tom Cowan, MD, author of Human Heart, Cosmic Heart
• David Diamond, MD, expert on cardiovascular disease
• Ben Edwards, MD, of the Root Cause Protocol
• Anthony Jay, PhD, author of Estrogeneration
• Kiran Krishnan, expert on intestinal flora
• Robert Quinn, DAOM, LAc, founder of Kamut International
• Karen Randall, DO, emergency medicine physician
• Pam Schoenfeld, RD, co-director Healthy Nation Coalition
• Stephanie Seneff, PhD, expert on glyphosate
• Joseph Tarantolo, MD, existential psychiatrist
• Jerry Tenant, MD, author of Healing is Voltage
• Timothy Weeks, DC, author of Whole Body Health
• Louisa Williams, MS, DC, ND, author of Radical Medicine
• Lindsea Willon, expert on insulin resistance
• Will Winter, DVM, expert on pastured livestock
• Nasha Winters, ND, LAc, co-author The Metabolic Approach to Cancer

For further information: wisetraditions.org or phone (540) 722-7104

Early bird discount until September * Membership discount for registrants

This comes to us from the Weston A. Price Foundation. Please take a moment to read this email and then call your Senators and Representative.  None of them have co-sponsored these bills, please ask them to do so.  I called all three and it only took about 7 minutes (we suggest saving their numbers in your phone!).

In this area they are:

Senator: Merkley, Jeff 

Senator: Wyden, Ron 

Representative: DeFazio, Peter

Washington, DC Office
2134 Rayburn Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
phone: 202-225-6416
Contact: https://defazio.house.gov/contact/offices/washington-dc-office

Want local meat? Tell Congress to pass the PRIME Act

https://www.westonaprice.org/want-local-meat-tell-congress-to-pass-the-prime-act/

As consumer desire for local, grass-fed meat grows, it’s increasingly difficult for farmers to meet the demand due to a shortage of government-inspected slaughterhouses.

Current federal law bans the sale of meat to consumers unless it has been processed in a USDA-inspected facility or under a state inspection program with the exact same standards as the USDA facilities. These regulations are designed for the large, industrial-scale processors, and they are too expensive and difficult to meet for most small-scale processors who work with local farmers.

With few slaughterhouses available to small farmers, many have to haul their animals for several hours, resulting in increased expenses, higher prices for consumers, and unnecessary stress on the transported animals.

“Custom” slaughterhouses, for which states can set their own inspection standards, do exist, and many farmers already have much closer access to one of these facilities. But current federal law provides that these facilities may only process meat for the person or persons who owned the animal when the slaughter took place. This means the customer(s) must buy the whole animal while it is still alive – buying a large amount of meat all at one time, without even knowing how much meat they’ll end up with or what their price per pound will be. This is not feasible for most farmers or consumers!

H.R. 2859/ S.1620, known as the PRIME Act, addresses this problem by repealing the federal ban on the sale of meat from custom slaughterhouses.   The bill allows states to set their own standards for the sale of meat within the state processed at a custom slaughterhouse.

The PRIME Act is a win-win-win: we can increase farmers’ incomes, increase consumer access to locally raised meat, reduce federal regulations on small businesses, cut down on fossil fuel use, and improve animal welfare.

Filed by Representative Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), Representative Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), and Senator Angus King (I-ME), the PRIME Act already bipartisan support with 17 co-sponsors from over a dozen states – but we need to build more support in order to move it forward. Will you help?

TAKE ACTION

Call your U.S. Representative and Senators and urge them to sign on to H.R. 2859 and S. 1620. You can look up who represents you at https://www.congress.gov/ or call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.

Below is a sample message for your call or email. Remember that calls have a greater impact, and only take a couple of minutes. Use this sample message as a starting point – tailor it to your own language and focus on why this issue is important to you. Personalized messages are the best way to convince legislators!

As a constituent, I urge Representative ____ to co-sponsor H.R. 2859, the PRIME Act.   [OR: I urge Senator ___ to co-sponsor S.1620, the PRIME Act]

This bill opens up more options for small farms and ranches, and thus for the consumers who want to buy from them. The bill simply removes the federal ban on the sale of meat from custom slaughterhouses directly to consumers and venues serving consumers within a state, subject to state law. This returns power to the states to establish a regulatory scheme that makes sense for their citizens.

The PRIME Act supports local food production and small businesses, while also reducing vehicle miles traveled with livestock trailers and helping to meet the consumer demand for locally raised foods.

Please support our local farmers and consumer choice by co-sponsoring H.R. 2859.

Name
City, State

If you are a livestock producer, take a few extra minutes and ask to speak to the staffer who handles agricultural issues. Briefly explain to the staffer any problems you have faced with lack of access to inspected slaughterhouses, and how the PRIME Act would help your business and benefit your customers.

NOTE: If your Representative is already a co-sponsor, be sure to say “Thank you!” when you call.

H.R. 2859 co-sponsors:

• Justin Amash (R-MI)
• Andy Biggs (R-AZ)
• Tim Burchett (R-TN)
• Joe Courtney (D-CT)
• Rodney Davis (R-IL)
• Jeff Duncan (R-SC)
• Matt Gaetz (R-FL)
• John Garamendi (D-CA)
• Jared Golden (D-ME)
• Mark Green (R-TN)
• Jared Huffman (D-CA)
• Steve King (R-IA)
• Thomas Massie (R-KY)
• Tom McClintock (R-CA)
• Mark Meadows (R-NC)
• Carol D. Miller (R-WV)
• Alexander X. Mooney (R-WV)
• Scott Perry (R-PA)
• Chellie Pingree (D-ME)
• Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
• Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)

1620 was filed Senator Angus King (I-ME) and is co-sponsored by Rand Paul (R-KY) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN)

I just got an email from a local farm letting us know that they have milk available.

Our Jersey cow just freshened and we have space in our milk rotation for folks wanting weekly milk. Our cows are grass fed on our pastures and fed hay from our own place in winter along with mangels, turnips and squash we grow for them.

We are looking for residents of River Rd and Santa Clara or folks who make a weekly trip to this area already. Please call if interested and we’ll arrange a visit to our farm in Santa Clara.

Small is Beautiful

There are also other farms that sell milk in the area, if you would like more information see: Raw Milk or Contact Us.