Hi Friends,

Thanks for opening the Note today. I appreciate the encouragement from so many of you folks who let me know that you enjoy reading it. That inspires me to go on.

Please enjoy!

Fresh Pennsylvania Raw Honey Harvest!

Walt assures me that we should have the new harvest of raw wildflower honey this Thursday, which means you can start picking it up at the Green Dragon on Friday.

Hallelujah Hive Natural Bug Spray!

Our spray is very popular this time of year. You can spray on hair, body, clothes, etc. without worry of stains. It even smells nice since it contains a blend of pure essential oils and absolutely no chemicals or Deet.

End of Recession SALES! Here’s Hoping it’s over!! Hometown & Green Dragon Markets Only:

*Vermont Wildflower 1 Pound raw honey—Save $2

*Vermont Goldenrod 1 Pound raw honey—Save $2

*Buckwheat Honey – Save $1 on pints and Save $2 on quarts

*Elderberry Formula 4 oz—Save $2

*Elderberry Jellies and Jams – Save $2

*Hallelujah Hive All Natural “Chocolate” Body Soap–$3

*Barley Max – Save $5 when buying along with 1 more

Hallelujah Acres Supplement

*Hallelujah Acres Balanced Woman Cream —20%OFF

*Natural Cosmetics from Honey Bee Gardens — 20% OFF

*Along with other on-going SPECIALS at the markets

In the United States, the average lifespan of a medical doctor is 62 years. That is the average. That means that some live longer and some shorter. There are some very good medical doctors around who are also into natural means of health.

Something that might be interesting to consider, as I approach my 60’s – would I put my life into the hands of doctors that don’t know how to get past 62 themselves?

Please don’t take me wrong. Dorothy and I personally know some very fine medical doctors. I’m just saying that this statistic is scary and we should choose wisely.

Just because I have not been to the doctors since 1995, does not mean that other folks should never see the doctor. Check-ups can be good. That is between you and your very fine doctor. The system is evil. Some doctors also may be. However, many really do care about their patients. I just want to set the record straight. I am not against medical doctors. It is just that the system is bias to one side and not balanced. It is good to find a doctor that is more balanced in his or her approach to health.

The medical doctors of today are taught to believe that disease is controlled and even destroyed by medical drugs. But if the immune system is not strong enough to take the drugs, the body can die.

The Naturopathic doctor believes that the body, if given the right nutrition, or other natural means, can heal itself.

Joel Fuhrman M.D. a nationally known medical doctor uses a little of both in his practice. He believes that medical drugs should be used in emergency situations, and as soon as possible the patient should be put on natural means of healing so the body can heal itself. Medical doctors all over the country send their diabetic patients to Joel that they have given up on. Doctor Fuhrman sees 90+% of them get off most, if not all their insulin within 4 weeks.

The masses in this country are told that natural ways are quackery, and medical doctors, from what I have been told, are pressured by their insurance companies to push the drugs. Here is an interesting statistic: One of our Forefathers, Benjamin Rush, back in the seventeen hundreds said,

Benjamin Rush MD – “Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship… To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic… The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom.” Benjamin Rush, MD, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and personal physician to George Washington.

I’m going to stop here, because I will only get upset if I go further.

“Some Benefits OF”

RAW HONEY!

Strong Bones

Strong Digestion

Asthma—One of our customers, owner of a horse farm, said that after she started eating raw honey, her asthma just went away.

Better memory

Natural anti-biotic—Less colds and other sickness. Honey strengthens the immune system.

Tummy ulcers eliminated

According to Joe Traynor, the author of “Honey, The Gourmet Medicine”, copyright 2002, “Honey has been shown to provide relief for, or to cure, a number of different disorders, including, but not limited to the following: Diarrhea, ulcers, infections, IBS, gastrointestinal problems, cancer and staph infections. There are reports that honey both inhibits and kills cancer cells and can prevent the spread or metastasis of cancer.

Honey has also been shown to have an inhibitory effect on a number of fungal species, including Candida.”

Youthful Energy—Athletes in many countries have found that honey gives them more energy and staying power.

OH!! There is so much more. Nevertheless, so you don’t have to read a novel, let us go on to:

Bee Pollen

Fountain of Youth for the skin (Anti-wrinkle)

Sinuses

Arthritis

Youthful energy

Increases Metabolism—Warning! the side effect is “Weight Loss”

Anemia

Long, Long Life. Over 200 Beekeepers in Northern Russia well over 100 yrs old. They sell their honey and have pollen on the dinner table everyday.

Increased physical strength, even within 24 hours.

Less constipation

Only perfect food—Contains all the nutrition the human body needs.

We are seeing incredible results at the marketplace with this youthful food. I am getting testimonies virtually every week. This past Wednesday, one of our customers told me he started taking pollen twice a day last Thursday, after he got it from us at Hometown Market last Wednesday. He took it twice a day from Thursday through Sunday and, as a runner, he clocked a record run on Monday, just 5 days after he started eating the pollen.

I have been talking a lot about fresh bee pollen lately, so let’s go on to:

“Barley Max”

Contains barley and alfalfa grass

Helps cleanse and normalize blood

Alkalizes body—One of the most alkaline foods in the world. Disease hates alkaline. All disease is acid loving. Do the math! Arthritis, cancer, diabetes etc.

Builds and strengthens immune system

Helps strengthen and rebuild the cellular structure of the body.

Fiber Cleanse

Gentle colon cleanse

Cholesterol

Weight Loss

Return to youthful energy

Nicer, more youthful skin

Parasites gone in two weeks

More regular

Less Constipation

You just feel better!!

Propolis Spray– Natural anti-biotic

Poison Ivy (Itch & spread immediately)

Acne (within a week)

Cold sores (many have told me a matter of minutes)

Sore Throat (Great for singers & speakers)

Cuts—Helps keep infection out

Helps stop bleeding

I could go on with Wild Cherry syrup, Elderberry formula, etc., but I would be creating a Hallelujah Hive dictionary.

For more info on our natural products, and ordering, you can go to www.HallelujahHive.com

Hope to see you at the markets,

Mark

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge” –

-Hosea 4:6

Hi Health Minded Friends,

Thanks for opening the Note today. I hope you are all doing very well this week. There are some very important reminders this week. Please Enjoy!

Forks Farmers Market GRAND OPENING!

This Saturday the 12th from 10 am – 3 pm. What a neat place just absorbing nature in the middle of an organic farm complete with animals, barbecue samples from the farmers John & Todd, and usually live music. Hallelujah Hive plans to be there as well as our Natural Gourmet Chef daughter, Laura (You probably know her as Laura’s Sweet Gourmet). Besides the open-air farm store, there are about 12 – 15 other organic venders.

We don’t bring all of our natural products to this market for lack of space under our tent. We do bring most, but only a few of our natural soaps. However, if you know you are coming, and you are not sure we will have what you need, you can call or email us with your order and we will be glad to put a package together for you. We do honor our specials at the other markets.

For more info and directions, you can go to www.ForksFarmMarket.com

End of Recession SALES! Here’s Hoping it’s over!! Markets Only:

*Vermont Wildflower 1 Pound raw honey—Save $2

*Vermont Goldenrod 1 Pound raw honey—Save $2

*Buckwheat Honey – Save $1 on pints and Save $2 on quarts

*Elderberry Formula 4 oz—Save $2

*Elderberry Jellies and Jams – Save $2

*Hallelujah Hive All Natural “Chocolate” Body Soap–$3

*Barley Max – Save $5 when buying along with 1 more

Hallelujah Acres Supplement

*Hallelujah Acres Balanced Woman Cream —20%OFF

*Natural Cosmetics from Honey Bee Gardens — 20% OFF

*Along with other on-going SPECIALS at the markets

***For more information on the description of most of these products, just go to our website www.hallelujahhive.com.

Tupelo Honey!

It’s In! We have it!

100% Certified Raw, Unheated, Unfiltered Tupelo Honey from the white tupelo trees that grow in the Apalachicola River basin in North West Florida.

Yes, Hallelujah Hive will now be carrying Don Smiley’s Tupelo Honey. Don is the beekeeper and owner of Smiley Apiaries. From what Don tells me, Tupelo honey, although it is totally raw, stays liquid indefinitely.

My family and I have personally tasted it just to make sure it is good. Well…….It is GOOD!!

Come and get raw Tupelo honey at the markets or at our home and try it for yourself.

You can order, look at the pictures, or investigate our site, by clicking onto www.HallelujahHive.com The Tupelo Honey is not on our website yet. If you would like it shipped to you just call or email me.

“What I Want to do When I Grow Up”

…from a 50’s perspective.

Did you ever hear of Jack LaLanne? He started the first health club in America in 1936.

Believe it or not, he is still around. In fact, he and his wife of about 54 years are traveling the world, lecturing to whoever will listen that you don’t have to be sick. He’s now 95 years young, and driving a new red sports car.

When he was a kid, he wore a back brace. He was weak, thin, sickly (he dropped out of school for a year because of illness). He was shy, withdrawn, and he had boils, pimples, and blinding headaches.

For breakfast, lunch and dinner his diet was composed of cakes, pies and ice cream. That is until he met the late, great Paul Bragg. Remember, he was the guy who went surfing at 95 in Hawaii and had the veins and arteries of a 20 year old in his nineties.

Well, to make a long story short, Paul chewed Jack out and set him on the right track, one of exercise and a good diet.

Soon after that, Jack got down on his knees and prayed to God. He said, “God, please give me the willpower to refrain from eating unhealthy foods when the urge comes over me. And please give me the strength to exercise even when I don’t feel like it.”

It worked. Jack celebrated his 70th birthday by towing 70 rowboats with 70 people on board for a mile and a half across Long Beach Harbor with his hands handcuffed and his feet shackled.

Jack has a saying, “Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom.”

On the nutrition end, Jack has been a vegan most of his life, at least since the pie & cake stage. Today, at 95 he does eat an occasional egg white and wild fish. Oh well, we’re not all perfect. LOL! But what he lacks in diet, still LOL….. he makes up for in exercise. What are his exercises? He pulls rowboats !!! I’m kidding of course. He only does that once in a while.

Jack was recently asked if he thought he’d live to be 100. He said, “I don’t care how old I live! I just want to be living while I am living! I have friends who are in their eighties, and now they’re in wheelchairs or they’re getting Alzheimer’s. Who wants that? I want to be able to do things. I want to look good. I don’t want to be a drudge on my wife and kids. And, I want to get my message out to people. I tell people I can’t afford to die. It would wreck my image.”

Jack LaLanne loves people and he loves being alive. I don’t know if you noticed or not, but he never retired.

Jack received a letter from an older couple. The gentleman asked if Jack thought it was alright to have sex at 75. Jack replied that his wife and him like it a little cooler.

I titled this article “What I want to do when I grow up” from a 50’s perspective. I have a question for you. What do you want to do when you grow up? Do you want to retire, become or continue to be a couch potato, play golf, or……do you want to climb mountains, become a missionary, dance, laugh and play football with your grand kids, or/and take walks with your great grandkids? Do you want to tell stories to your great great grandkids?

When I was in high school, they were always pushing us teenagers to make up our minds on what we wanted to do when we grow up. In other words, at 17 years of age, they want us to know how we will spend the rest of our lives. I didn’t realize what I wanted to do in life until I was 50. Now, at 57, I’m excited about the future.

I’m not thinking about retiring at 65. I’m hoping to be still preaching the message of “You Don’t Have to be Sick“ at 100, if God allows me. I want to still be working at the Markets at age 100. I want to climb mountains into my eighties and then at least go hiking after that. I do want to walk with and tell stories to my great great grandkids which could possibly come along when I’m in my early 100’s.

I would like to go for walks when I’m 107 in the country (if there still is any) with my wife (my best friend) and reminisce about the last century.

I’ve been given a gift of great value, the gift of the knowledge of health and longevity. I can use it or abuse it. It is solely up to me.

If I choose “wisely”, with God’s help, I can spend my next 50 or 60 years on earth serving and teaching others, that many of them might go on to serve and teach as well.

Others have given me this gift of great value, and because of it I’m healed, healthy and alive today. I’m very thankful to my wife Dorothy, George Malkmus, Dr. Phiefer, Susan, the owner of “The Country Store” in Leighton, and so many others for teaching and encouraging me. I’m especially thankful to the Lord Himself who encouraged me through the Bible. Yes, the Bible, with passages like “I heal all your diseases. I renew your youth like the eagle” and a multitude of other scriptures. Gifts are for giving. I must never forget that, and I must work towards that goal.

There are a couple studies I would like to mention. At Tufts University, residents of a chronic-care hospital, almost all of whom were over the age of 90, were put on a weight-training program. Some needed assistance walking to the bathroom. Instead of killing these frail and fragile people, eight weeks later their wasted muscles had grown stronger by 300 percent, and both balance and coordination were much improved. Oh! In addition, no one needed assistance walking anymore.

At the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, 12 men between 60 and 72 were put on regular supervised weight-training sessions 3 times a week for 3 months. They were asked to train at 80% of their one repetition maximum, (the heaviest weight they could lift at one try). At the end of the experiment, the strength of the men’s quadriceps had more than doubled, and the strength of their hamstrings had tripled. By the end of the program, many of these older men could lift heavier boxes than the 25 year olds working in the laboratory.

Sadly, the general American way of thinking is that we grow up at 21, wind down and retire at 65, take it easy for a few years and die………….!!!!!!

In many countries in the world, and this is a fact, many are dancing, working full time and enjoying a pain free, disease free life well into their 90’s and 100’s. They live in places like Okinawa, China, Abkhasis, Vilcabamba, Northern Russia and Hunza.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Alzheimer’s Disease, Cancer, Diabetes and other diseases are not caused by aging. They don’t even exist in many of these lands. They are caused by our lust for the wrong foods, our laziness when it comes to drinking enough water, exercising, high stress lifestyles, our anger and lack of forgiveness towards others, etc. etc. etc.

Please! I am not pointing the finger. I know that some would say getting Mark Gibson to change his ways has been the utmost of a challenge (like pulling teeth), and I do have some pulled from too much cake & ice cream.

Speaking of ice cream, according to John Robbins, son of the ice cream giant, who left the Baskin Robbins empire and now preaches on healthier living, “it doesn’t matter what age you are, you can change your ways, start eating right, start exercising, and you’ll see results.”

I think a lot has to do with our attitude. Is the glass half empty or half full. Do we tend to be negative in our thinking or positive? The sun will rise in the morning. A cloud does have a silver lining. There is light at the end of the tunnel. YES! Everything is going to be OK! To me, Mark Gibson, the fountain of youth is Bee Pollen, raw honey, greens, whole foods and my Savior Jesus Christ!!

In the words of Winston Churchill, who had watched London being pulverized by German bombs and all England on the verge of extinction by Hitler, and yet win the war regardless——“Never Never Never…..Give Up!!!”

Thanks for listening. Hope to see you at the markets, and don’t forget Forks Farm,

Mark

Mark Gibson
hallelujahhive@epix.net
570-401-1353
www.HallelujahHive.com

Hi Friends,

Happy Memorial Day! Remembering those who have given their lives for America that we might have the freedoms we enjoy inspires me. I am truly thankful for these folks, and I have hope for this country because I believe God honors what our forefathers and the fallen soldiers have done unselfishly in God’s Name.

Thanks for opening the Note today. Please Enjoy!

“Hallelujah Hive Natural Soaps”

It was about 5 or 6 years ago that Dorothy had the idea of creating our own natural soaps. Dorothy was already looking for pure natural soap when we started going out together back in 1982. Finally, in the 21st Century she asked me if she were to develop a totally natural soap, do I think folks would buy it at the market? John, our market neighbor, said it would. Thank you John!! We decided it didn’t matter. If nobody bought the soap, we would use it.

You know, even though we have a lot of problems here, this country is still a neat wonderful place to go after the American dream. We’re not making 600 bars a day or more, like some of these over night success soap companies, but we have a lot of happy customers who keep coming back for the 3 for $12 or the 12 for $45 deals. There are even several shops in New England, Canada, and the great state of Pennsylvania, who carry our natural soaps.

Anyway, we are now carrying about 25 different soaps, the most popular being Oatmeal & Honey, followed by Lovely Lavender, Patchouli, Cocoa Butter, and Minty Fresh.

Brand new, this week at the markets, we will have on the shelf, “Balsam & Elder” natural soap. The ingredients include balsam fir needle essential oil and crushed organic elderberry flowers with a nice natural evergreen color. The organic elder flowers are from our friends, Jacinthe and Sylvain, owners of an organic elderberry farm in Quebec. Thank you, Jacinthe, for it was your idea to create this soap to begin with, and thank you also for sending us the elder flowers for the soap. These same two ingredients are also found in their Elderberry Salve for arthritis and inflammation pain, which we carry.

Next week, we plan to unveil our first 100% organic soap called, “Vanilla Bean”. Have you ever smelled the fragrance of organic vanilla? It is awesome, so light, alluring and gentle. We also use this same organic vanilla in our new Organic Vanilla Skin Cream. We hope to offer these soon on our website, but for now, they are only sold at the markets.

For those who are wondering what our natural soap is all about:

Hallelujah Hive Natural Soaps

Our all-natural soaps are handmade in small batches the old-fashioned way using olive oil and other vegetable oils.

Pure essential oils release their lovely perfume and aromatherapy in every bar. Those who know us know we love our honey! Raw honey is in every recipe since it helps to draw and retain moisture to the skin as well as add healing benefits. To help create a harder and longer lasting bar of soap, we use beeswax or cocoa butter.

When ready, the soaps are hand cut and cured for at least 3 weeks. And wow! Do they smell great! We hope you enjoy our homemade soaps as much as we do!

Soap Ingredients:

saponified oils of olive, coconut, palm, sunflower and/or safflower, and castor, shea butter, bees wax, raw honey, and essential oils.

Shampoo/Body Bar Ingredients:

saponified oils of coconut, palm, castor, olive, sunflower and or safflower, and jojoba, cocoa butter, shea butter, sweet almond oil, wheat germ oil, raw honey, and essential oils.

May also contain:

apricot kernel oil, avocado oil, organic or non-irradiated spices, herbs, flower petals or buds, grains, and natural plant derived colorants.

Hometown & Green Dragon Farmers Markets!

Super Food – “Fresh Bee Pollen”!

Please accept no imitations. Walt, the Pennsylvania beekeeper’s pollen, is not only fresh, it is organically made, and it tastes sweet and delicious. Now Walt has not been able to certify his pollen organic yet. It is hard to certify pollen and honey, since the bees do have a mind of their own, and one or two may decide to visit a farm 10 miles down the road with some sprayed flowers. Not likely, but it is hard to prove.

I know I talked about fresh pollen in the last Note, but I am really excited about it, seeing what I am seeing in the testimonies of our folks at the markets, and even my own body. By just doubling the amount of pollen I eat a day, I have lost weight in my tummy and gained more noticeable strength in my exercise routines.

We are seeing results in our customers with arthritis, allergies, sinus problems, and more.

Walt, the beekeeper, tells me he eats 4 to 5 tablespoons on a normal day. In fact, he says many days he lives on pollen and water until dinner.

I have increased my dosage to about 1 tablespoon twice a day. However, I saw results when I ate just 2 teaspoons once a day.

Here is a testimony sent today through our guest page on our website:

My Mom and I have been taking the Pollen since Friday and have both noticed dramatic results. We are telling everyone about it. As for you I wish I had met you long ago, you are good people and the whole world should know about the products you sell. Oh wait we already do, just not everone takes the products. We will be back on friday this coming week to buy more pollen. Love to you and your wife.

End of Recession SALES! Here’s Hoping it’s over!! Markets Only.

*Vermont Wildflower 1 Pound raw honey—Save $2

*Vermont Goldenrod 1 Pound raw honey—Save $2

*Buckwheat Honey – Save $1 on pints and Save $2 on quarts

*Elderberry Formula 4 oz—Save $2

*Elderberry Jellies and Jams – Save $2

*Hallelujah Hive All Natural “Chocolate” Body Soap–$3

*Barley Max – Save $5 when buying along with 1 more

Hallelujah Acres Supplement

*Hallelujah Acres Balanced Woman Cream —20%OFF

*Natural Cosmetics from Honey Bee Gardens — 20% OFF

Along with other on-going SPECIALS at the markets

***For more information on the description of most of these products, just go to our website www.hallelujahhive.com.

Tupelo Honey!

100% Certified Raw, Unheated, Unfiltered Tupelo Honey from the white tupelo trees that grow in the Apalachicola River basin in North West Florida.

Yes, Hallelujah Hive will now be carrying Don Smiley’s Tupelo Honey. Don is the beekeeper and owner of Smiley Apiaries. From what Don tells me, Tupelo honey, although it is totally raw, stays liquid indefinitely.

If all goes well, our first shipment should arrive in time for this Friday’s Green Dragon Market. This is just the first in a series of new raw honey harvests this summer and fall, including honey from North Carolina.

According to “Woman’s Day” magazine (It was lying around the house), I quote: “Honey is moving out of the kitchen and into the medicine cabinet as scientists continue to uncover surprising evidence of its health benefits. The biggest news so far: Honey can ease many of the common and unpleasant side effects of cancer treatments, and helps stomach ulcers heal faster, according to new research reported at a conference in Athens, Greece, on the medical uses of honey.

Honey is also a natural antiseptic, killing harmful bacteria, reducing inflammation and clearing infections.

Many types of bacteria have become anti-biotic resistant and don’t respond to conventional ointments,” says Peter Molan, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. “But honey clears up these infections without a problem.” End of Quote…..

Off the record, these scientists could have saved themselves a lot of time and taxpayer money if they had just asked some of you folks, our customers, or a couple of our natural beekeeper friends like Todd or Walt what the benefits of raw honey are.

Ordering!

For ordering by postal service any of our fabulous natural products, you can call Dorothy or me at 570-401-1353, or order on-line at www.HallelujahHive.com

Word of Wisdom!

Don’t believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see. Judge on the testimonies of the people.

Study those who are very healthy or have been totally healed of disease. Look at the common denominators of what they did, such as their diets, stress levels, exercise habits etc.

I studied folks, many who were up there in age, who had beaten terminal disease. Some of their common denominators were that they all drank a lot of fresh water, ate mostly whole raw foods, built their meals around vegetables, exercised, etc.

You may have seen it, there is a commercial on TV that says corn syrup is good for you. Oh Yeah?? Where’s the testimonies of the folks living long healthy lives from eating corn syrup?

It is not just common denominators, it’s common sense, good old “Horse Sense”. God gave us everything we need in nature to be 100% healthy.

“He created a Garden for Adam & Eve, not a Pharmacy.”

When I was a kid in a more non-politically correct America, people would tell me to eat my greens, and stay away from drugs. Were people smarter when I was a kid? I mean, a doctor visit cost my family about $5. Doctor Sanson would give us free medicine and common sense advice. Oh, here I go again, off on a tangent. I’ll stop here. Thanks for listening.

Hope to see you folks at the markets this week. And remember, Forks Farmers Market starts Saturday June 12th at 10 am.

Mark

Mark Gibson
hallelujahhive@epix.net
570-401-1353
www.HallelujahHive.com

Hi Health-Minded Friends,

Thanks for opening the Note today. Hope you are having a great life and a great week.

Please Enjoy!

SALES!! At the Farmers Markets!

*Buy any (4) one lb raw honey’s and receive 1 FREE

* Buckwheat Honey from PA—Pint is $1 OFF Quart is $2 OFF

*4 oz Elderberry Formula– $2 OFF

*Organic Elderberry Jelly from our friends Jacinthe and Sylvain in Quebec, Canada–$1 off

*All our Natural Cosmetics from Honeybee Gardens—20% OFF

*Balanced Woman Natural Progesterone Cream for symptoms from PMS and menopause (hot flashes, mood swings)—20%OFF

*Barley Max—Receive $5 off with purchase of any Hallelujah Acres supplement

FREE Newsletter Magazines from H.Acres at our shops. Yes, if you want to learn more about our diet/lifestyle, read great testimonies and learn more about the natural products we carry, it is all in these magazines.

You can buy the products through us, like the Barley Max, Carrot Max, etc. or if you choose to order straight from Hallelujah Acres, please give them our pin #604 and Dorothy and I will get some of the credit for it. Thanks!

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“A Good Healthy Day”

I would like to share with you my idea of a good healthy day. These are the kind of days I aim for during the week. Not everyday works out this way, however, many do. When they do, I feel on top of the world. I like to string as many together as I can. Even those days that don’t work out exactly as I like, I try to implement as much of this daily menu as I can. So I will share my goal for a normal day, as well as a few of my lunch recipes. This kind of lifestyle/diet can bring healing and good health for many decades.

Monday Morning through Saturday

7 am – Hydration Drink—16 ounces of distilled water with 1 eighth teaspoon sea salt and a teaspoon of Barley Max. Like fluids to an automobile. Oiling the joints.

Staying hydrated is one of the most important things we can do for our bodies and good health. Try to drink at least 8 to 10 glasses of pure water a day. I believe Raw juice and green tea count.

7:25 am – Push-ups, sit-ups, dumbbell exercises. Helps detox and alkaline the body. Wakes up the mind.

8 am – Power Drink—BarleyMax, CarrotMax, BeetMax in 8 ounces of distilled water, or freshly juiced carrot, celery, beet with Barley Max. Oh the energy!!

9 am – Fiber Drink—16 ounces distilled water with heaping tablespoon B-Flax-D, a bit of psyllium and a large teaspoon of fresh raw bee pollen. Need the colon to work at 100%.

10 am – Chlorella tablets and saw palmetto capsule in 8 ounces distilled water. Chlorella for ridding the mercury (silver fillings on teeth) and palmetto because I’m at that age (prostate maintenance).

10:30 am – Green Tea with some raw honey. YUM!

11 am – Barley Max

11:30 am – Country walk on country road. “Take me home to the place I belong, West Virginia….I mean Pennsylvania.”

12 Noon – Hallelujah! It’s lunch time. It is either a Green Smoothie, a green salad or my own unique concoction. I stay raw for optimal energy and staying alkaline. My body can heal and rebuild better this way. If you are interested, here are our recipes for these 3 lunches:

Lunch #1 My own unique concoction! What would you name it?

1 tablespoon raw honey

1-2 teaspoons fresh raw bee pollen

1 tablespoon raw almond butter

couple shakes of cinnamon powder

1 tablespoon elderberry formula from Honey Gardens

1 handful raw sunflower seeds

Stir

Add 1 banana sliced

When done, eat a small handful of raw pumpkin seeds and a few raw almonds. If I am really hungry, I will eat a raw blueberry bar from Hallelujah Acres.

Lunch #2 Green Smoothie for two in a blender

2 tablespoons raw honey

4 teaspoons fresh raw bee pollen

Frozen organic strawberries

Frozen wild blueberries

1 1/2 frozen bananas

distilled water to help blend everything

spinach, kale, romaine lettuce, spring mix, sprouts. Whatever greens you want. Should be 40% to 60% greens.

Blend

Suggested toppings—almond butter, raw nuts and seeds, raw coconut, blueberries, sliced apple, sliced mango, etc….

Lunch #3 Green Salad

Greens, tomatoes, onions, sprouts, cucumbers, broccoli, (any favorite veggies), sunflower seeds, avocado, herbs, and crumbled up Foods Alive Raw flax crackers. So Good!

I like to use Foods Alive raw flax oil dressings. They are delicious and good for you. You can also use Braggs organic apple cider vinegar and flax or olive oil.

We carry the Foods Alive and Braggs.

1:30 pm – Green Tea (No honey) I had too much already.

2:30 pm – Power Drink (Same as 8 am)

3:30 pm – Chlorella and saw palmetto again

4:30 pm – Chlorella again. Hey, I have a lot of fillings and you can’t have too many greens.

5:30 pm – Dinner!!! Large Green salad and then I have cooked whole foods. Now my energy will go down slightly as my body digests the cooked.

I take some whole food supplements with dinner. If you think supplements are wrong, Jack La Lanne takes 40 a day. He has a hot marriage, a hot sports car, and he’s 95. So, I’ll take my supplements with dinner, thank you. They are:

1—Kelp

2—Micro-Max (sea minerals and veggies) from H.Acres

3—Curcumin from H.Acres for cholesterol, cancer tumors. What can I say. It’s a high anti-oxidant.

4—Digestive enzymes

5—Chlorella, Yes again!

6—Probiotic sometimes.

Sounds crazy, don’t it?? Not to me. I think it happened after I turned 50. At least that’s what I tell people.

I don’t fear disease. I have not been to the doctors since 1995 (That’s when he told me I was incurable and it was hopeless). Who wants to listen to a negative report?) I rarely have a cold. If so, it lasts only 2 or 3 days. I never have the flu. I feel good. I have lots of energy. When I fall down I bounce….most of the time. God gets ALL the Glory for this.

Now, if you have time, I would like to talk briefly about the most powerful food in the entire world:

Raw, Fresh Bee Pollen!

We are getting so many testimonies from the market place on this food. One lady who had sinus problems galore took too much. She went home and ate a heaping tablespoon for the first time in her life (You are supposed to start with a very tiny piece, the size of the head of a pin). She vomited…..and she was immediately healed completely of her sinus problems.

A man came to our shop at Hometown Market a few weeks ago with arthritis in his hands. Within two weeks, it is going away. I asked him how much he is taking and how often. He told me 2 tablespoons, two times a day. I have been told that is too much, but I guess not for him.

Bee pollen is the only, I say the only perfect food in the world. It contains all the nutrition the human body needs. They have discovered hundreds of folks in Northern Russia well over 100 years of age still active in their villages, who eat pollen everyday. I mean well over 100. I’ve read around 120 yrs of age.

Here are just some of the benefits of fresh raw bee pollen:

#1 Helps alleviate Anemia

#2 Anti-Biotic (Natural)

#3 Anti-wrinkle—Retards aging of the skin. The skin becomes younger looking, smoother and healthier.

#4 Muscle building protein for strength and stamina—great for weight lifters

#5 Profound revitalizing effect on elderly people. (Energy for all ages)

#6 Excellent treatment for constipation

#7 Curbs appetite in the obese. Stimulates appetite in the anemic.

I have a very good source of fresh pollen from Walt at Swarmbustin’, in a very pristine part of Chester County Pennsylvania. Believe it or not, they still have fox hunts there.

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Legally I can’t tell you any food can heal the body. Hippocrates can (“Let your food be your medicine and let your medicine be your food”).He said that 2000 yrs ago. But then Hippocrates didn’t live in a country where his freedom of speech was being slowly taken away. Did I say that? No. Not me. My fingers, in some kind of freaky evolutionary manner, over a period of many eons of seconds, just happened to spell out those words by complete chance.

Seriously, I can say that I have seen many healed after eating certain foods, and have experienced healing myself after changing my diet/lifestyle. What a co-incidence. But then, I do not believe in co-incidence. Wow! I am going off the deep end tonight. Let’s get back to serious stuff.

For the record, there are some very good medical doctors out there. Dorothy and I know some, and study the books of others. There is Doctor Peter Baddick from Weissport (used to be the medic for the Pittsburgh Steelers), and now one of our terrific customers. There’s Doctor Lydia Shilling, also a friend (healed of colon cancer via the Hallelujah Diet), Dr. Joel Fuhrman (Nationally known medical doctor for getting diabetics healed in less than 4 weeks). He was an Olympic skater, crippled in an accident and told he would never walk again. He does.

There is also Dr. McDougal, Dr. Neal Bernard, Dr. Lorraine Day (Head surgeon for the San Francisco General Hospital for 20 years). She was on her deathbed with breast cancer and healed through the Hallelujah Diet and plenty of fresh, clean water. These are just a few. There are many more who believe in the natural ways.

Ladies and Gentlemen. I live the Hallelujah Diet, which, Praise the Lord, has brought my body back to life from a serious disease. It’s basically a diet of mainly raw veggie juices, whole grains, and fruits and vegetables at its core.

I have been told by natural beekeepers, and books by natural beekeepers, that the honey bee is a gift from God, our friends, and they create a fountain of youth in the golden nectar of raw honey, fresh pollen and propolis.

Through Hallelujah Hive, we are infusing healthier diet/lifestyle along with the natural creations of the honeybees to ultimately help you experience quality life.

Could this be the discovery of the ages, the infamous fountain of youth from the legend of old……..??????? NOT! But it’s a lot of fun and a great way to live a lot healthier.

Thanks for listening.

Hope to see you at the markets this week,

Mark

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” Matthew 5:6

Mark Gibson
hallelujahhive@epix.net
570-401-1353
www.HallelujahHive.com

Hi Friends,

Happy Memorial Day! Remembering those who have given their lives for America that we might have the freedoms we enjoy inspires me. I am truly thankful for these folks, and I have hope for this country because I believe God honors what our forefathers and the fallen soldiers have done unselfishly in God’s Name.

Thanks for opening the Note today. Please Enjoy!

“Hallelujah Hive Natural Soaps”

It was about 5 or 6 years ago that Dorothy had the idea of creating our own natural soaps. Dorothy was already looking for pure natural soap when we started going out together back in 1982. Finally, in the 21st Century she asked me if she were to develop a totally natural soap, do I think folks would buy it at the market? John, our market neighbor, said it would. Thank you John!! We decided it didn’t matter. If nobody bought the soap, we would use it.

You know, even though we have a lot of problems here, this country is still a neat wonderful place to go after the American dream. We’re not making 600 bars a day or more, like some of these over night success soap companies, but we have a lot of happy customers who keep coming back for the 3 for $12 or the 12 for $45 deals. There are even several shops in New England, Canada, and the great state of Pennsylvania, who carry our natural soaps.

Anyway, we are now carrying about 25 different soaps, the most popular being Oatmeal & Honey, followed by Lovely Lavender, Patchouli, Cocoa Butter, and Minty Fresh.

Brand new, this week at the markets, we will have on the shelf, “Balsam & Elder” natural soap. The ingredients include balsam fir needle essential oil and crushed organic elderberry flowers with a nice natural evergreen color. The organic elder flowers are from our friends, Jacinthe and Sylvain, owners of an organic elderberry farm in Quebec. Thank you, Jacinthe, for it was your idea to create this soap to begin with, and thank you also for sending us the elder flowers for the soap. These same two ingredients are also found in their Elderberry Salve for arthritis and inflammation pain, which we carry.

Next week, we plan to unveil our first 100% organic soap called, “Vanilla Bean”. Have you ever smelled the fragrance of organic vanilla? It is awesome, so light, alluring and gentle. We also use this same organic vanilla in our new Organic Vanilla Skin Cream. We hope to offer these soon on our website, but for now, they are only sold at the markets.

For those who are wondering what our natural soap is all about:

Hallelujah Hive Natural Soaps

Our all-natural soaps are handmade in small batches the old-fashioned way using olive oil and other vegetable oils.

Pure essential oils release their lovely perfume and aromatherapy in every bar. Those who know us know we love our honey! Raw honey is in every recipe since it helps to draw and retain moisture to the skin as well as add healing benefits. To help create a harder and longer lasting bar of soap, we use beeswax or cocoa butter.

When ready, the soaps are hand cut and cured for at least 3 weeks. And wow! Do they smell great! We hope you enjoy our homemade soaps as much as we do!

Soap Ingredients:

saponified oils of olive, coconut, palm, sunflower and/or safflower, and castor, shea butter, bees wax, raw honey, and essential oils.

Shampoo/Body Bar Ingredients:

saponified oils of coconut, palm, castor, olive, sunflower and or safflower, and jojoba, cocoa butter, shea butter, sweet almond oil, wheat germ oil, raw honey, and essential oils.

May also contain:

apricot kernel oil, avocado oil, organic or non-irradiated spices, herbs, flower petals or buds, grains, and natural plant derived colorants.

Hometown & Green Dragon Farmers Markets!

Super Food – “Fresh Bee Pollen”!

Please accept no imitations. Walt, the Pennsylvania beekeeper’s pollen, is not only fresh, it is organically made, and it tastes sweet and delicious. Now Walt has not been able to certify his pollen organic yet. It is hard to certify pollen and honey, since the bees do have a mind of their own, and one or two may decide to visit a farm 10 miles down the road with some sprayed flowers. Not likely, but it is hard to prove.

I know I talked about fresh pollen in the last Note, but I am really excited about it, seeing what I am seeing in the testimonies of our folks at the markets, and even my own body. By just doubling the amount of pollen I eat a day, I have lost weight in my tummy and gained more noticeable strength in my exercise routines.

We are seeing results in our customers with arthritis, allergies, sinus problems, and more.

Walt, the beekeeper, tells me he eats 4 to 5 tablespoons on a normal day. In fact, he says many days he lives on pollen and water until dinner.

I have increased my dosage to about 1 tablespoon twice a day. However, I saw results when I ate just 2 teaspoons once a day.

Here is a testimony sent today through our guest page on our website:

My Mom and I have been taking the Pollen since Friday and have both noticed dramatic results. We are telling everyone about it. As for you I wish I had met you long ago, you are good people and the whole world should know about the products you sell. Oh wait we already do, just not everone takes the products. We will be back on friday this coming week to buy more pollen. Love to you and your wife.

End of Recession SALES! Here’s Hoping it’s over!! Markets Only.

*Vermont Wildflower 1 Pound raw honey—Save $2

*Vermont Goldenrod 1 Pound raw honey—Save $2

*Buckwheat Honey – Save $1 on pints and Save $2 on quarts

*Elderberry Formula 4 oz—Save $2

*Elderberry Jellies and Jams – Save $2

*Hallelujah Hive All Natural “Chocolate” Body Soap–$3

*Barley Max – Save $5 when buying along with 1 more

Hallelujah Acres Supplement

*Hallelujah Acres Balanced Woman Cream —20%OFF

*Natural Cosmetics from Honey Bee Gardens — 20% OFF

Along with other on-going SPECIALS at the markets

***For more information on the description of most of these products, just go to our website www.hallelujahhive.com.

Tupelo Honey!

100% Certified Raw, Unheated, Unfiltered Tupelo Honey from the white tupelo trees that grow in the Apalachicola River basin in North West Florida.

Yes, Hallelujah Hive will now be carrying Don Smiley’s Tupelo Honey. Don is the beekeeper and owner of Smiley Apiaries. From what Don tells me, Tupelo honey, although it is totally raw, stays liquid indefinitely.

If all goes well, our first shipment should arrive in time for this Friday’s Green Dragon Market. This is just the first in a series of new raw honey harvests this summer and fall, including honey from North Carolina.

According to “Woman’s Day” magazine (It was lying around the house), I quote: “Honey is moving out of the kitchen and into the medicine cabinet as scientists continue to uncover surprising evidence of its health benefits. The biggest news so far: Honey can ease many of the common and unpleasant side effects of cancer treatments, and helps stomach ulcers heal faster, according to new research reported at a conference in Athens, Greece, on the medical uses of honey.

Honey is also a natural antiseptic, killing harmful bacteria, reducing inflammation and clearing infections.

Many types of bacteria have become anti-biotic resistant and don’t respond to conventional ointments,” says Peter Molan, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. “But honey clears up these infections without a problem.” End of Quote…..

Off the record, these scientists could have saved themselves a lot of time and taxpayer money if they had just asked some of you folks, our customers, or a couple of our natural beekeeper friends like Todd or Walt what the benefits of raw honey are.

Ordering!

For ordering by postal service any of our fabulous natural products, you can call Dorothy or me at 570-401-1353, or order on-line at www.HallelujahHive.com

Word of Wisdom!

Don’t believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see. Judge on the testimonies of the people.

Study those who are very healthy or have been totally healed of disease. Look at the common denominators of what they did, such as their diets, stress levels, exercise habits etc.

I studied folks, many who were up there in age, who had beaten terminal disease. Some of their common denominators were that they all drank a lot of fresh water, ate mostly whole raw foods, built their meals around vegetables, exercised, etc.

You may have seen it, there is a commercial on TV that says corn syrup is good for you. Oh Yeah?? Where’s the testimonies of the folks living long healthy lives from eating corn syrup?

It is not just common denominators, it’s common sense, good old “Horse Sense”. God gave us everything we need in nature to be 100% healthy.

“He created a Garden for Adam & Eve, not a Pharmacy.”

When I was a kid in a more non-politically correct America, people would tell me to eat my greens, and stay away from drugs. Were people smarter when I was a kid? I mean, a doctor visit cost my family about $5. Doctor Sanson would give us free medicine and common sense advice. Oh, here I go again, off on a tangent. I’ll stop here. Thanks for listening.

Hope to see you folks at the markets this week. And remember, Forks Farmers Market starts Saturday June 12th at 10 am.

Mark

Mark Gibson
hallelujahhive@epix.net
570-401-1353
www.HallelujahHive.com

Hi Health minded Friends,

Thanks for opening the Note today. I hope you are all doing well in spirit, mind, and body. You may find this Note just a little different from most, or it may seem just the usual crazy mind of the author.

Please enjoy!

“OH, The Webs We Weave in Life”

Once upon a time, there was a lush, fertile land where three rivers came together (No, it was not Pittsburgh). In fact, it was four rivers come think of it. The property was plum full of fruit trees and veggies, organic to the tee. There were no houses or bridges or cars or trucks. The air was not just clean, it was perfectly pure. The place was not a town or a village or a county or country. It was a garden, the most incredible garden anyone has ever seen, called Eden.

Two people lived in Eden. You might say they were the richest folks on earth. They were the only folks on earth at that moment in history. They, you could say, owned the earth. You probably remember their names, Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve lived in a land so wonderful, that they didn’t need a house. They didn’t even need clothes. There weren’t any stores or malls or farmers markets to buy anything anyway, or charge cards to buy with. They didn’t even need a last name. The weather was nice……all the time!

Over Eden, above the sky, was a realm called Heaven, where God lived with His Son. His Son wasn’t officially named yet. You might know Him (I hope so) as Jesus, the Christ. But let us not get ahead of ourselves.

Every morning God would come down to the garden and visit Adam and Eve. In fact, He would walk and talk with them. God gave Adam a job to do. I think it was a pretty fun, but challenging job. Very simple, name all the animals on earth (Do you think the animals talked) and take care of the garden. The garden must have been easy to take care of since there were no thorns or briars. Moreover, they were given the amazing task of filling the earth with children. With the size of the earth, you’re talking about one large family.

I know I am supposed to be talking about health. Please stay with me.

Let’s try to imagine just what it might have been like to be Adam or Eve living in Eden. Perfect health! All the food you can eat, and it’s delicious. No worries about money or bills. No taxes!! What health insurance??? What is cancer anyway, or diabetes, or high blood pressure? Stress? No! Perfect bliss. Your spouse is the most beautiful, or handsome or hot person literally in the whole world. You can wait to have children a few years or you can start now. Your body is made perfect. You never age or die.

Just think, no TV’s, cell phones, computers, blogs, facebooks, bumper to bumper traffic, etc. etc. etc.

Can you smell the flowers? I mean, really breathe in the fragrance of the roses and lilacs with clear sinuses and no allergies. Well, if you are eating your raw wildflower honey from Hallelujah Hive right now, you have no allergies anyway.

Look at the honeybees taking the nectar from the blueberry flowers. I bet that honey tasted good, and it was totally unprocessed and raw. Oh, to take a walk in Eden feeling the warm breeze on my face and experiencing paradise, not having to worry about anything, anything, anything.

Organic grapes the size of humans. Apples with no worms, or waxy pesticide spray, perfectly sweet and crisp. Cool, juicy, deep red heirloom tomatoes, green spinach and onions. What did they use for dressing?

Baked potatoes…..wait a minute. Potatoes weren’t discovered until the middle ages in Ireland. And there were no kitchen stoves to bake potatoes with.

But!!!!!! Don’t you know there is always something that gets in the way! A catch. Something to screw up the works. A fly in the ointment. Murphy’s Law!!

It didn’t matter what Adam named the animals, or how long it took him and Eve to populate the earth. God didn’t care. It did not matter if they took a few months off from working on the garden to travel to a land far, far away. God gave them the largest, most organic buffet ever put on earth, and told Adam that he could eat any and all that he wanted on the entire planet, except for the fruit on one tree. God asked him to stay away from only one tree out of probably billions. Just 1!!!!! Please don’t eat the fruit on this ONEEEEEEEEE tree in the center of the garden. Out of all these trees, “Don’t Eat That Fruit.” Oh, the webs we weave in life.

Adam and Eve ate the fruit…………………disobedience—Sin—Paradise Lost!

Once upon a time there was a beautiful, lush land called Eden where a couple neat folks lived. There was another tree in the garden called the “Tree of Life”. If only they had eaten of the fruit of this tree, they never would have died. Can you imagine that? It might have all been different for us.

Despite Adam eating from the wrong tree, this original vegan still lived almost 1000 years, according to the Bible, along with many folks for generations, until Noah’s flood.

God’s Son was eventually named. The angel told Mary to name him Jesus. Jesus had to buy us back from the devil, who took ownership at the eating of that forbidden fruit. In fact, I believe Jesus is the “Tree of Life”.

He said in the Bible that if we eat of Him (Repent and ask Jesus to save our soul), we will live forever. WOW! The Garden of Eden still exists according to the Bible. There are angels guarding it with fiery swords. Could one day the Garden be open once again to you and me? Maybe we really will take that walk one day in the Garden of Eden.

This is the way I think. If I am wrong, and I don’t think I am, than at least I will one day go to the grave rejoicing and full of hope. If I am right, than I will one day either go to the grave rejoicing and full of hope, or I, with multitudes of others, be called up into the sky to meet Jesus.

The moral of the story: It is very important what we put into our bodies. What we eat can kill us, or it can give us life. Well, this is one of the morals.

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I happened to read a letter my wife Dorothy was sending to someone, who had asked some dietary questions. The letter is so fascinating to me, I thought I would share it with you.

In Dorothy’s own words:

“Thank you for your questions, I will try to answer as best I can and hopefully with enough understanding for your frustrations. We have many customers that rave about our creams. In creating them, I wanted a cream that was as natural as possible with ingredients that are very beneficial to the skin without the questionable bad ingredients. I am very picky about what I put on my skin since your skin can absorb about 30% of whatever you place on it. I would not sell anything I wouldn’t use on myself. Thank you for complementing the condition of my skin! Maybe due to some of my Japanese blood, but I believe any culture can have nice or not so nice skin. I believe most of the credit is due to diet and lifestyle. Good health is priceless. And it doesn’t need to be expensive either. God gives us all opportunity to live a prosperous, healthy life if we seek Him first.

There may be many voices out there concerning health, but look for some common denominators. I believe in the simple rule that our diet should be “mostly whole foods with an emphasis on raw”. Whole foods are basically foods closest to the form God made them. The more processed they are, the worst they are for you. Greens are number 1, then all your vegetables of color. Eat very little to no animal products. Animal products are hard to digest and thus a big burden on the body. Some “Health Gurus” out there may recommend certain animal products, I think mostly because they believe Americans can’t live without having animal products every day or else they are addicted to animal products themselves. Our ancestors had no problem with eating only the occasional wild life they killed while hunting or that one chicken every week or so that they raised themselves. We can certainly get plenty of protein and calcium from non-animal sources. If you enjoy eating animal foods just eat them in moderation.

You already know that white flour and white sugar are bad. Nothing wrong with having an occasional spaghetti dish that can fit into the whole food way. Remember also that eating too much cooked foods can be a burden on the body, depleting our own digestive enzymes.

God gave us taste buds for a reason, we are to enjoy foods. With all the allowances of pleasure God gives us, he also requires that we have some restraint. It is wrong to be a glutton or to overindulge and be selfish in any area of our lives. We can all do better to eat simpler and live simpler. The Christian life is one of discipline and continual submission to God, asking His help all the way. I’m certainly preaching to myself!

Another comment about the expense of health. If you are on the fence, eating processed foods and take-outs as well as animal products every day, and eating some health foods and health products, then yes, it can be expensive. Produce, beans, nuts and seeds are very affordable. Planting your own garden is ideal.

Make sure you read Mark’s newsletters, you’ll get lots of encouragement and direction and especially common sense to eating and living. If you stop by the market, hopefully we can have a chat, if we are not too busy with customers.”

God bless you as you seek His will,

~ Dorothy

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Here is a recent testimony sent by one of our coveted customers.

Taking a shower used to be a duty. Something I simply had to do. Ever since I bought your homemade soaps I RELISH my showers! I can’t wait to lather up those fragrant, all-natural, moisturizing bars! I bought the baby shampoo bar for my 8-month-old son and it is fantastic. I also have the Lip Balm. My lips tend to get dry very quickly, and this lip balm has cured that!

Next time I stop in I’ll be buying some more of your products to try. I have my eye on the Propolis Salve and the Bug Shield. Great job, and keep up the good work. God bless!

Thank you Mallory!!!

If you are interested in more info on our products or you would like to order via our website, you can click your mouse onto www.HallelujahHive.com

For questions or you just would like to order over the phone, you can reach me at 570-401-1353.

Dorothy and I are hoping to see you all at the markets,

Mark

Mark Gibson
hallelujahhive@epix.net
570-401-1353
www.HallelujahHive.com

Happy Easter my Friends,

The note is a little different today. In fact, it might be a little radical to some. Instead of talking about diet and health and what’s on sale at the markets (we do have lots of sales going on), I just want to talk a little about what Easter means to me. Thanks for listening…

“The Real Meaning of Easter to Me”

It is not my ambition to argue about one’s beliefs in religion, at least not in this writing. However, I would like to show a couple observances I have recently made during my journey on this planet with some acquaintances of mine, if you will allow me to kidnap and take advantage of this Hallelujah Hive note for a minute.

A practicing atheist, C.S. Lewis, the author of the Narnia series and a University Professor in England, hated the thought of there being a God so much, that he decided to prove that God did not exist. This great learned, brilliant professor failed in his endeavor miserably. In fact, C.S.Lewis said that every piece of evidence that he could find led to the fact that there is a Creator. On the night he surrendered his life to Christ, he said it had to be the most miserable salvation experience in all of England, because he surrendered kicking and screaming. I cannot remember his words exactly, but they were something like that.

I listened to a scientist, who is a Christian, speaking of one of his colleagues, who is supposedly an atheist. They were discussing evolution verses creation. He said his colleague’s conversation went something like this:

“I have come to the conclusion, that even though I am an evolutionist, scientifically, there is no way the earth’s moon can be where it is without a creator putting it there and holding it there. However, if I were to conclude that I am actually a creationist, that would mean I am a believer in God, which would make me a sinner deserving of Hell, in need of a Savior. So, I don’t go there. The moon is where it is for some unknown reason officially, and that’s the way it is.”

Something I also very recently found out is that there is more historical evidence in the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ from the grave than there is for Julius Caesar ruling Rome.

I, myself, came out of a secular partying, drinking and drug background back in the day. I was raised Catholic back in the fifties and early sixties before the Charismatic movement. That’s when they taught if you missed Mass on a given Sunday and died before you went to confession, it was Hell for you.

I struggled with my total belief in God. Was there or was there not a Creator? I didn’t know. This is what I did:

At the age of 29, I stood on my bed at 2 in the morning in my leaky little 4 room cottage, and cried out to God. I asked Jesus to save me from myself. Then I began to ask questions. I told God that I didn’t know if I believed He existed or not. Would He please absolutely prove Himself to me? “I can wait, thank you.”

Over the next couple years He so much proved Himself that it takes more mental energy or faith to believe in luck or co-incidence than it does to believe in Jesus. This is some of how He did it:

#1 Prophecy—In reading the Bible, I discovered that predictions made as far back as 3000 years ago have come true (over 500 of them) 100%. In contrast, 90+% of man’s predictions in tabloids fail every year. For instance, just one prediction in the Bible, was a country called Israel would be born in the year 1948. It was also written almost 3000 years ago that this same Israel would be a stumbling block to all the nations on earth, and after it becomes a nation in 1948, absolutely no one will be able to destroy the nation again. If you are on the fence with your faith in God, I would watch this prophecy.

#2 Answered prayers—Sometimes He says yes. Sometimes He says no. Sometimes He says wait. But there is always an answer. It is so neat to talk to God, sharing feelings, thanking Him and asking Him for help and special needs.

#3 The Bible. I have found personally no mistakes in the Bible. It proves itself. The Old Testament is balanced by the New Testament. For example, I questioned why God destroyed the world by flood in Noah’s day killing everyone with no hope of salvation. That was answered in 1 Peter in the New Testament, when Jesus, after dying on the cross, went into Hades and preached to those who perished in the flood. Wow!! I guess God wanted to spare at least the kids in that generation terrible evil.

#4 Through nature He reveals Himself. Just as I can’t understand a Boeing 747 creating itself over billions of years (what a slap in the face to man if it did), I can’t understand a human eye evolving by itself. The balance of life in the beauty of nature is so vulnerable and mathematically precise.

#5 Miracles—Yes! I myself have seen them. Something that does not make sense. How could it possibly scientifically happen? For example, a friend of mine had a very bad back, terrible pain for many months. He was scheduled for surgery. A group of us prayed over him and asked God to totally heal him. I am not exaggerating. Within several hours, the pain went away and he was completely healed. The surgery was cancelled. To this day he is fine. That was years ago. He is in his mid sixties.

A couple weeks ago, at our nutrition class, some of us layed hands on a woman who’s hands had become very discolored days before. We prayed for a few minutes. When we opened our eyes, the mother of this woman who was praying with us just went beside herself praising God. The woman’s hands had begun losing the discoloring as we were praying.

#6 God’s Holy Spirit – Before Jesus left this earth, he told his followers that he would not leave them completely alone. He promised to fill them with his Spirit and that his Spirit would give them strength to live for him. It was his strength that helped me quit the drugs. I know that some may think I am crazy, but when I asked Him for His Holy Spirit, He sent Him, and I have felt His presence every day ever since. Before this, I never experienced joy, or peace or understanding, or spiritual strength, which are attributes of the Holy Spirit, until one morning alone in my home on August 26, 1982. This was and is another confirmation that God exists.

I was reading a book by a devout atheist. He said that Christianity is a farce because on the one hand Christians say that their God in incomprehensible, but on the other hand they say they can know God personally. Well, I think that this man just doesn’t understand Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity, God in the flesh.

God the Father is incomprehensible. But at the same time we can know Him personally through Jesus.

Like I stated in the beginning of this kidnapping of the Hallelujah Hive note, I am not here to argue religion, just to show some of my observances in life, just like I observe folks getting well through good diet and exercise.

It is Easter today. I am very thankful that Jesus gave His life on the cross, rose from the dead and saved my soul. I just told Him I’m sorry for sinning (hurting Him and others and myself), and I asked Him to forgive me.

I do not deserve to go to Heaven. I still sin and fall short, but God bought my soul.

Today I don’t doubt anymore and I’m looking forward to Heaven. I’m no better than anyone else, just forgiven because this secular guy gave up and asked God to forgive me.

Happy Easter!!! ttt

Hope to see you at the markets.

PS. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever should believe in Him, will not perish, but have everlasting life” – John 3:16 in the Bible

“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Romans 10:13

Mark Gibson
hallelujahhive@epix.net
570-401-1353
www.HallelujahHive.com

Hi Friends,

Hope you all had a great week. This week promises to be sunny (after this storm) with growing warmth. I am excited!

Thanks for opening the note today. Please Enjoy!

Nutrition/Potluck Class!

Next class is Saturday April 17th, 4 pm, at the Blue House in Trucksville on the grounds of Back Mountain Assembly Church.

Please bring an ingredient for the salad bar that feeds approximately 8 people, and either a side dish, main dish, or dessert. At the end of this newsletter you can find more information.

Please let us know if you will be coming, and what you plan to bring, so that we don’t have 5 people bringing sliced tomatoes for the salad bar. Also, we need enough folks coming to actually have a potluck! Thanks!

The Markets!

SALES! We have a lot of sales going on at Hometown and Green Dragon Farmers Markets. Come take advantage!

If you haven’t been to the Tower Village section of Green Dragon Market recently, and you are planning on visiting, get ready for a change. I have counted at least 12 new shops presently being built and coming into the site. We, Hallelujah Hive have recently expanded our shop so we can make shopping easier and so that we can expand our natural product line.

For ordering on-line and info on our products, our website is www.HallelujahHive.com . You can reach me (Mark) at 570-868-8172 or 570-401-1353

“Let’s Rebuild. Go Green!”

I have had the pleasure, or should I say unfortunate pleasure of spending much of my life in the so-called quote “Pepsi Generation”. The commercials on TV have said “UMM! A Mc’Donald’s Hamburger”. “Go for all the gusto you can get. You only live once.” “You deserve a break today.” If it feels good, do it.” And recently, “America runs on Duncan”.

I bought the commercial ads hook, line and sinker, and almost died in my early forties.

Many of us Americans have lived our lives in the fast lane on fast foods, meat and potatoes, large breakfasts, large lunches, large suppers, and well, somewhat large snacks before we go to bed. We eat white sugar, white flour, white vinegar, partially hydrogenated oils, artificial colors, artificial ingredients, lobster tails, 16 ounce prime rib, lots of ice cream and cake and you name it, if it tastes good, eat it. That was me for 44 years. My 3-year struggle with drugs in my twenties did not even compare to my terrible diet/lifestyle.

Well, today, I would like to talk about rebuilding our bodies and minds by going Green. I’m not talking about planting a tree or putting up a windmill. I’m talking about green foods and foods that act like green foods.

If you have been anything like me, your body is crying to be spared an early grave. Now cleansing is a biggy and step one. However, I have been talking about cleansing a lot. It is time to talk about the next step, rebuilding. Let’s make our tent homes (Bodies) disease and sickness proof.

Here are some steps we can all take for more and better energy, physical strength, weight loss, being more toned mentally and physically, longer life, clearer and more tranquil minds, and less or even no fear of the big three; Heart disease, Diabetes, and Cancer.

By the way, the big three way of dying is not natural. When folks come up to me at the market and say, “Why get healthy? You have to die of something anyway.” This makes me shutter and want to strangle these people so they might wake up. But, I was the exact same way.

There is a natural way of dying that many folks have done for 6000 years. You lay on your bed when you are ancient in age, bless your kids, grandkids, great grandkids, great great grandkids, and then go to sleep__________________________. Hi Jesus!!!

Step 1 – Pure Water—For starting the healing and rebuilding process we need to hydrate our body and mind. Our bodies are about 70% water and our brains are about 85% water. Our cells sit in a pool of seawater. Yes, we are more than just dust.

According to the “Water Cure”, we need to drink half our body weight in ounces of water a day. For me (I weigh about 135-140) it is about 65-70 ounces or 8 or 9 eight-ounce glasses a day. Green tea and raw carrot juice count as water.

I start everyday with a 12-16 ounce glass of distilled water, a large pinch of sea salt and a teaspoon of BarleyMax. 45 minutes later, I take my power drink, composed of Barley Max, BeetMax and CarrotMax in 8 ounces of distilled water and I’m on my way.

You will be amazed at how you begin to feel when you get hydrated in the morning. Water itself can heal headaches, and is good for the joints and mind.

A rule of thumb, which I never listened to, “about 65-70 ounces (H2O) of prevention is worth 130-180 lbs of cure.”

Step 2 – Greens—Broccoli, Romaine lettuce, Bok Choy, Barley Grass, Alfalfa Grass, Spinach. These are supreme body builders.

These greens will help normalize the blood by adding chlorophyll, which is really the foundation of the blood. The greens contain iron and calcium, among many other powerful nutrients. A cow gets his protein and calcium from the green grass he eats. WARNING! The cows you buy in pieces in the supermarket DO NOT, or should I say Are Not Allowed to eat grass. They are fed grains to fatten them up quickly for profit.

Greens are best eaten raw or uncooked. They are still great eaten steamed, baked, or stir-fried. I take Barley Max 5-6 times a day, as does George Malkmus, who had 6 months to live with colon cancer at age 42. He is now 75 and super healthy. I once saw a 19-year-old dog, very healthy, running around a big room that enjoyed being fed barley grass everyday for 19 years.

All greens are alkaline. Disease hates alkaline. Barley Max is one of the most alkaline foods in the world. If you have any acid problems, take Barley Max. My friend John at the Market sometimes has acid problems. When this occurs, he asks me for some of my Barley Max. Last time I counted the seconds until he began to feel it working. It was 20 seconds on my watch. WOW!

Step 3 – Honey Bee Creations!! Good Carbs, proteins etc.

Raw Honey- Raw Honey contains 165 nutrients. This golden nectar rebuilds bones. It contains two types of raw calcium for the bone knitting process. The Bible says honeycomb, health to the bones.

Raw honey will heal the digestion process, including ulcers.

All raw food including honey contains Oxygen. These foods help to oxygenate our bodies and minds. I have a customer who owns a horse farm. She recently told me that two years ago she had major allergies and asthma. That is when she started eating our honey. I remember that day two black Fridays ago. Today she is totally allergy and asthma free. My pollen allergies since childhood completely disappeared at 50 years old when I started eating Vermont Wildflower honey. Professional Athletes eat raw honey for the long energy (No sugar rush) it gives them.

There are many more beneifits to honey, but for the sake of “you don’t want this note 2 hours long”, I will cut it short.

Fresh Raw Bee Pollen—Some of the longest living people in the world eat pollen on a daily basis. Bee pollen is the ONLY perfect food in the world. It contains every nutrition the human body needs. Now that’s GREEN!

Some of the benefits are younger skin, more physical strength, energy, and healing support of disease including anemia.

Propolis—Poison Ivy (healing in 90 seconds). I am not exaderating. Acne disappears in a couple days. Cold sores heal quickly. Great for sore throats and what tumors might be growing inside.

All the bee creations are anti-oxidant, anti-cancer and it would seem like anti-everything bad.

Step 4 – Good Fats—I know fats can be a 4 letter word in this country, but we do need fats to live, and for a healthy looking body.

Some good fats are nuts (best raw),like almonds (Vitamin E), brazil nuts (selenium), walnuts (omega 3), and seeds, like pumpkin (great for prostate, loaded with zinc) and sunflower (night vision). Other good fats are avocado, flax oil, extra virgin olive oil (sparingly), organic raw dairy (eaten sparingly).

Step 5 – Generally Speaking, other good carbs are whole grains such as brown rice, millet, sweet potatoes and yams. Eat a lot of veggies (raw, steamed, baked, stir-fried), which are loaded with, as Doctor Joel Fuhrman would say, phyto-chemicals. Berries are also very high in anti-oxidants, such as blueberries and elderberries. I would say eat abundant raw fruit in season.

Step 6-7 & beyond—Don’t forget to pray to Christ, forgive, exercise, get some sunshine, breatheeeeeee, cut back on stressssssss.

Ladies and Gentlemen, contained on this page is only the tip of the healthy iceberg. However, there is enough info here to make a great start to a healthy, peaceful, energetic, disease-free, long, young life.

Seriously, an ounce of prevention is really worth a pound of cure.

Thanks for listening.

Hope to see you at the markets this week,

Mark

Monthly Nutrition Classes

I am very excited about the up-coming covered dish/nutrition classes to be held the 3rd Saturday of every month.

At this point in the game, since we have folks spread out all over northern and southern Pennsylvania, we want to have the meetings at three different locations, one each month. I will keep you informed of the location of the month, the teaching topic, speakers, and the culinary theme through this newsletter, and signs at the markets. We wish to meet at the Blue House in Trucksville (Wilkes Barre area), our home in Dorrance (near Mountain Top), and soon to open “Be Nourished” Health food store/Luncheonette across from the Berkshire Mall in the Reading area.

These meetings will give folks who are interested in a healthy lifestyle a chance to stay connected and supported, learn recipes, and find a path to real health with all the extra benefits, including youthful energy, longevity, and no more fear of disease.

Starting in April, the meeting time will start at 4 pm. Each person brings an ingredient for the salad bar as well as a main or side dish or dessert. Everything must be vegan (nothing from an animal or made from animal ingredients; just follow the directions on the other side of this page on a healthy vegan diet). Out of respect to those who come to the meeting that don’t eat meat, we decided to exclude meat. A meat eater can eat vegan but a vegan can’t eat meat. We eat the salad and main course, and then have the teaching, DVD, or cooking demo, etc. After the teaching, we have dessert time and fellowship. The atmosphere should be a mix of party and family reunion. In other words, the monthly events should be a lot of fun.

What do Vegans Eat?

Vegetarians do not eat meat, fish, or poultry. Vegans, in addition to being vegetarian, do not eat other animal products and by-products such as eggs, dairy products, whey, and gelatin.

Foods to Avoid:

Beef, pork, fish, chicken, eggs, turkey, hamburgers, hot dogs, bacon, sausage, bologna, etc. Carbonated beverages and soft drinks, Alcohol, sport drinks, and all drinks and juices containing preservatives, refined salt, sugar, and artificial sweeteners, sulfured dried fruits, All milk, cheese, ice cream, whipped toppings, and non-dairy creamers Refined, bleached flour products, most cold breakfast cereals, and white rice, All lard, margarine, shortenings, and anything containing hydrogenated oils or trans fats, Candy, gum, cookies, donuts, cakes, pies, or other products containing refined sugars or artificial sweeteners, All refined white or brown sugar (brown sugar is simply refined white sugar with some molasses added for color),

Acceptable sweeteners include raw unfiltered honey, stevia, agave nectar, and pure maple syrup, evaporated cane juice sugar and raw sugar in moderation

Egg and Dairy Replacements (to convert a favorite recipe)

As a binder, substitute for each egg:

1/4 cup (2 ounces) soft tofu, or
1 small banana, mashed, or
1/4 cup applesauce, or
2 tablespoons cornstarch or arrowroot starch, or Ener-G Egg Replacer or another commercial mix found in health food stores.
1 Tbsp. ground flaxseed mixed into 2 Tbsp. any liquid

The following substitutions can be made for dairy products:

Soy milk, rice milk or nut milk may be used.
Buttermilk can be replaced with soured soy or rice milk. For each cup of buttermilk, use 1 cup soymilk plus 1 tablespoon of vinegar.
Soy cheese available in health food stores. (Be aware that many soy cheeses contain casein, which is a dairy product.)
Crumbled tofu can be substituted for cottage cheese or ricotta cheese in lasagna and similar dishes.
Several brands of nondairy cream cheese are available in some supermarkets and health food stores
Nut cheese recipes

Here are some websites with excellent vegan recipes to try:

www.hacres.com ,www.vegweb.com ,www.veganchef.com, www.chooseveg.com

Hi Health Minded Friends,

Thank you for opening the note today. Hope you are all doing well.

Please Enjoy!!

Covered Dish/ Nutrition Meetings!

Last week while talking excitedly about our up-coming parties…….I mean covered dish nutrition meetings, I mentioned the word “vegan” quite a lot. I fear that some folks may have gotten the wrong impression. Let me just say that the reason we are so strict with the ingredients at our covered dish/nutrition meetings is that meat eaters can eat vegan food but vegans can’t eat meat.

Although my family and I are mainly vegan food eaters, we do not teach that it is bad to eat animal products such as meat, fish and dairy. Biting a cow for the purpose of eating it is not a sin. In fact, some of the longest and healthiest living people in the world do in-deed eat meat, fish, eggs and dairy.

The problem with our American love affair with animal products is that we can eat too much at a time and we buy the food from the wrong sources.

If I were going to eat animal products, I would do like they do in the healthiest places in the world. I would either hunt the game myself, or buy from a hunter, or go to an organic farm, like, for instance, “Forks Farm”, which is on the links page of our website. I would likewise buy my dairy raw from an organic farm. There is a shop across from us, “Hilltop Meadow Farm”, at Hometown Farmers Market that sells raw organic dairy. I can even introduce you to our Mennonite friends, Lloyd and Ester, if you choose to visit them.

Raw and organic products from a cow is always much better when the cow is grass fed. You know that grass is where the raw protein and calcium is.

Another tip for long great health is building the daily meal around vegetables and starches or whole grains. If you insist on animal products, they should include only a couple ounces of the meal.

As they say, “Everything in moderation”. The problem is, how many of us can do just that, eat 2 ounces of venison with dinner????? I can just see me 15 years ago at my favorite meat restaurant asking the waiter, “May I have the 16 ounce prime rib in a 2 ounce size please? And, for dessert, I’ll have ice cream, but please hold most of it.

The doctor once told me when I was very ill that I can get away with eating 1 piece of cake a week for the rest of my life. Well, that didn’t last long. One became two, which became four. You know how it works. That is why I went cold turkey (please excuse the pun) when I weaned myself off all animal products. I haven’t eaten any animal in most of the last 12.5 years. I have no desire, even though I totally lusted after hamburgers, ice cream, and such until I was 44.

A friend of mine told me this morning that she just loves lobster tail and would like to have that once in a while. I told her “Go ahead, eat lobster tail occasionally.” It is having these rich foods 3 times a day that gets us Americans in trouble.

At the monthly classes we will be exploring paths to great health, prevention and healing of disease, youthful energy and longevity.

Not everyone has to be a vegan. Not everyone has to be a meat eater. It revolves around the quality of what we put into our bodies. It is how much we put into our bodies. As Fred Bisci would say, “it is more important what you don’t put in your body”.

Are we dealing with a serious disease that needs healing? There is a path. Do we want to prevent disease? There is a path.

The study of nutrition from nature and what it can do is absolutely fascinating. My mother used to say to me; “Mark, if everyone jumped off of the Brooklyn Bridge, would you follow them?”

Ladies and Gentlemen, we do not have to follow the masses to the fast food joints. We do not have to follow the masses to the hospitals. We do not have to follow the masses to the nursing homes. We do not have to follow the masses to an early grave.

Are you personally dealing with a disease, with weight problems, with brain fog? Come to these monthly classes and just see what happens. Someone who had been on his deathbed with the same so-called incurable disease that I had and recovered, told me there was a path and gave me some advice 13 years ago. Today I am 100% healed. I am not in remission. I am healed. I am not an Ulcerative Colitis survivor. I am healed. Praise God!!

The classes will be in Reading, Wilkes –Barre and Dorrance. Make the drive. It could change your life and the life you might touch at these meetings.

This Saturday at 2 pm, at the Blue House

Please bring a healthy snack to share. This week the class is all about the bees!!!!

For more info and directions call Mark or Dorothy at 570-401-1353 or 570-868-8172.

For what we are all about, our natural products and ordering, our professional website is: www.HallelujahHive.com

The Farmers Markets are open and we have many good SALES going on. Please come out.

Hope to see you at class and the markets,

Mark

“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God-this is your spiritual act of worship. do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world…….” Romans 12:1&2

Hi Health minded Friends,

Thank you for opening the note today. Hope you are all well and getting even more well.

Warning! The contents of this note could change your life. If you dare…..Please enjoy!

NEW! Covered dish/Nutrition Classes.

I am very excited about the up-coming covered dish/nutrition classes to be held the 3rd Saturday of every month.

At this point in the game, since we have folks spread out all over northern and southern Pennsylvania, we want to have the meetings at three different locations, one each month. I will keep you informed of the location of the month, the teaching topic, speakers, and the culinary theme through this newsletter, and signs at the markets. We wish to meet at the Blue House in Trucksville (Wilkes Barre area), our home in Dorrance (near Mountain Top), and soon to open “Be Nourished” Health food store/Lunchinette.across from the Berkshire Mall in the Reading area.

These meetings will give folks who are interested in a healthy lifestyle a chance to stay connected and supported, learn recipes, and find a path to real health with all the extra benefits, including youthful energy, longevity, and no more fear of disease. Who wants to look forward to nursing homes and chemotherapy? There is a better road. In our seventies, instead of living with painful arthritis, we could be climbing mountains and even have lunch on the summit.

As we get going, each month will be a different food theme, like for example, pizza night, or Mediterranean, Mexican, Oriental, etc.

Starting in April, the meeting time will be 4 pm. Each person brings an ingredient for the salad bar as well as a main or side dish or dessert. Everything must be vegan (nothing from an animal or made from animal ingredients; just follow the directions at the bottom of this page on a healthy vegan diet). We eat the salad and main course, and then have the teaching, DVD, or cooking demo, etc. After the teaching, we have dessert time and fellowship. The atmosphere should be a mix of party and family reunion. In other words, the monthly events should be a lot of fun.

Now there are a lot of topics I can teach on, a lot of wonderful healthy DVDs we can show, but………..we would like your input.

What would you like as a topic on a given meeting? Please send in your ideas. I might talk about enzymes but you would have liked me to talk about healing cancer naturally instead. You have to let me know what you would like as possible topics.

*****Our next meeting is on March 20th at the Blue House in Trucksville. Please Note! This is at 2 pm, and is not a covered dish (the change to covered dish meetings starts in April). However, we would like, if you can, for you to bring a healthy snack to share. Please!! No white sugar, white flour, well, just follow the directions at the bottom of this page on a healthy vegan diet.

The topic is going to be the Honeybees. I plan to show a very interesting DVD on the Beekeepers up in the very north, including Todd Hardie of Honey Gardens. I also plan to talk about what is going on with the bees in America (Are they really going extinct?), the intricacies of a typical bee hive, and the culinary fare that honeybees (the only gourmet chefs in the animal world) serve up for each other and us human folk.

Please add these meetings to your monthly schedule. By being there, you could bless someone else, and help change their life by your support and friendship.

Dorothy and I will be putting together a flyer with the meeting schedule and the rules of the covered dish. In other words, what ingredients are good and healthy, and which ingredients are bad and unhealthy.

For more info, please call Dorothy or Mark (that’s me) at 570-868-8172 or 570-401-1353.

Again, I will keep you informed, as we get closer to starting.

The Markets!

Hometown and Green Dragon Farmers Markets.

Hallelujah Hive is opened year round at these markets: Hometown – 8 am until 8 pm and

Green Dragon – 9 am until 8:30 pm.

Both markets are heated. Many winter specials going on now.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT!

Here are some of the popular questions that are asked us, and our answers from several years ago that still hold true today.

1—How do I get rid of Cholesterol?

Our bodies make cholesterol naturally. Animal products are high in cholesterol and they add to ours if we eat animal products. The American diet is very high in non-fiber foods. Non-fiber foods tend to hold cholesterol in our bodies.

The key is eating less animal products and eating more fiber. The fiber is used as a so-called broom to broom the cholesterol out of the body. We have a product called Fiber Cleanse from Hallelujah Acres, which greatly promotes the process, as well as getting rid of excess weight and parasites.

Remember, eat more fiber or roughage. That means more salads, brown rice, beans, etc.

2— Why don’t we eat fish on the Hallelujah Diet? They ate it in the Bible.

In Bible days the fish was, for the most part, clean. It did not contain mercury poison. Today, 50% of the fish around the world has cancer. Fish is high in cholesterol and contains no fiber. The omegas found in fish do not absorb as well as the omegas from ground flaxseed.

3—I thought honey was honey and it had to be local to heal allergies.

Is all honey the same? Most of your honey in the super market is processed and heated. Even the honey produced by most of the beekeepers is heated somewhat. This destroys most of the nutrition, including the enzymes, turning the honey to sugar.

Honey Gardens wildflower raw honey and our Pennsylvania Swarmbustin raw honey is great for healing spring, summer, and fall allergies. Honey Gardens raw honey, which is produced over 300 miles away works because it is the same flowers that exist here in Pennsylvania and down the east coast.

It is a scientific fact and we see it through testimonies that raw unprocessed-unheated honey heals allergies, digestion problems, stomach ulcers, helps the memory, breathing (including asthma), and folks, this is a big one. According to science and the Bible, raw honey strengthens and builds the bones and teeth. You really didn’t want osteoporosis anyway. Take one or two tablespoons a day to receive these benefits.

My childhood allergies that I had for forty-some-years are now completely gone. They left right after I started eating this honey. I don’t know if part of this was the honey or not (I eat three or four tablespoons a day), but a while back, when I fell off the painters scaffold onto the concrete, butt first, I didn’t break anything. I also believe that the Hallelujah Diet and the barley grass I’ve been consuming for all these years was a big part of my miraculous healing. Thank you God!!

4—People who eat no animal products (meat, fish, fowl, eggs, dairy ) cannot possibly get enough nutrition to survive!!

A man told this to Dorothy at a show we were at.

Dorothy, our daughters Laura and Amy, myself, and many others we know, are living proof that everything this man said is absolutely wrong.

Hope to see you at the markets and class,

Mark

What do Vegans Eat?

Vegetarians do not eat meat, fish, or poultry. Vegans, in addition to being vegetarian, do not eat other animal products and by-products such as eggs, dairy products, whey, and gelatin.

Why Veganism?

People choose to be vegan for health, environmental, and/or ethical reasons.

The consumption of animal fats and proteins has been linked to heart disease, colon and lung cancer, osteoporosis, diabetes, kidney disease, hypertension, obesity, and a number of other debilitating conditions. Cows’ milk contains ideal amounts of fat and protein for young calves, but far too much for humans.

Animal agriculture takes a devastating toll on the earth. It is an inefficient way of producing food, since feed for farm animals requires land, water, fertilizer, and other resources that could otherwise have been used directly for producing human food.

Today’s farms are not like the ones most of us learned about in school; they are mechanized factories where an animal’s welfare is of little concern compared to profit.

Vegan Nutrition

The key to a nutritionally sound vegan diet is variety. A healthy and varied vegan diet includes fruits, vegetables, plenty of leafy greens, whole grain products, nuts, seeds, and legumes.

It is impossible to list all the foods that vegans eat, but here are some guidelines to choosing vegan foods. Many of the vegan foods listed are also good sources of fiber, phytochemicals and other micronutrients:

Sources of Protein in a Vegan Diet: Whole grains (eg. whole wheat flour, bread and pasta, brown rice, oats, rye), nuts (eg. hazelnut, cashews, brazilnut, almonds), seeds (sunflower, sesame, pumpkin), legumes/pulses (peas, beans, lentils), soy products (flour, soy milk, tofu, tempeh).

Sources of Carbs in a Vegan Diet: Whole grains (e.g. whole wheat, oats, barley, brown rice, millet), whole-wheat bread, whole grain pasta and other flour products, lentils, beans, sweet potatoes, dried and fresh fruit.

Sources of Fats in a Vegan Diet: Nuts and seeds, nut and seed oils, vegan margarine, avocados.

Foods to Avoid:

Beef, pork, fish, chicken, eggs, turkey, hamburgers, hot dogs, bacon, sausage, bologna, etc. Carbonated beverages and soft drinks, Alcohol, sport drinks, and all drinks and juices containing preservatives, refined salt, sugar, and artificial sweeteners, sulfured dried fruits, All milk, cheese, ice cream, whipped toppings, and non-dairy creamers Refined, bleached flour products, most cold breakfast cereals, and white rice, All lard, margarine, shortenings, and anything containing hydrogenated oils or trans fats, Candy, gum, cookies, donuts, cakes, pies, or other products containing refined sugars or artificial sweeteners, All refined white or brown sugar (brown sugar is simply refined white sugar with some molasses added for color),

Acceptable sweeteners include raw unfiltered honey, stevia, agave nectar, and pure maple syrup

Egg and Dairy Replacements (to convert a favorite recipe)

As a binder, substitute for each egg:

1/4 cup (2 ounces) soft tofu blended with the liquid ingredients of the recipe, or

1 small banana, mashed, or

1/4 cup applesauce, or

2 tablespoons cornstarch or arrowroot starch, or Ener-G Egg Replacer or another commercial mix found in health food stores.

The following substitutions can be made for dairy products:

Soy milk, rice milk, potato milk, nut milk, or water (in some recipes) may be used.

Buttermilk can be replaced with soured soy or rice milk. For each Cup of buttermilk, use 1 cup soymilk plus 1 tablespoon of vinegar.

Soy cheese available in health food stores. (Be aware that many soy cheeses contain casein, which is a dairy product.)

Crumbled tofu can be substituted for cottage cheese or ricotta cheese in lasagna and similar dishes.

Several brands of nondairy cream cheese are available in some supermarkets and health food stores

Here are some websites with excellent vegan recipes to try:

www.hacres.com ,www.vegweb.com ,www.veganchef.com, www.chooseveg.com

Hi Health minded Friends,

Hope you are all doing well on this last week of snowy February. Thanks for opening the note today.

I was going to email you all yesterday how I was unsure whether I would be open for business at Green Dragon due to the snow forecast. Then I changed my mind and decided I would go no matter how much snow we got. By 11 pm last night, I had my 4-wheel drive truck all loaded, I had completed shoveling the driveway of about 7-8 inches of snow. I would get up at 5 am, get ready, and go.

The alarm woke me at 5 am. I looked outside at what used to be our driveway (Our driveway is about 250 feet long with a steep hill) and was surprised to see what looked like the Sahara Dessert with all the snow instead of sand. I tried to push open the door, failing miserably. 15+ inches fell between 11 pm and 5 am, with heavy snow still falling. This was a bit much for me and my truck, so I went back to bed. As I am writing this note, it is 2 pm and still snowing. This is all bringing back memories of my days as a paperboy back in the sixties pulling my sled instead of riding my bike, and walking the drifts to the houses.

I called the office at the Green Dragon this morning and found out they had less than 1 inch of snow on the ground. Oh well! For those of you who came to the Hallelujah Hive shop, I am sorry I wasn’t there. I tried my best, but no matter how much I make up my mind to do something; there are forces sometimes stronger than me!

Health & Nutrition Classes!

This Sunday-At the Blue House at 9:45 am. Come see a great DVD on preparing raw, healthy foods.

Saturday, March 20th-At the Blue House at 2 pm. I plan to talk about the honeybees and the products they make. We are also showing a DVD called Health and the Hive, which is awesome.

For our Pittsburgh Friends!

I am driving my daughter, Amy, out to Pittsburgh on Monday. If anyone would like to give me an order, please contact me. I can drop it off at my sister, Linda Barnicott’s, house. You can pick it up there or I’m sure she will be happy to bring it to the church if you like.

SALES!

(At the farmers markets only)

· 2 lb raw honey

(Goldenrod, Wildflower, Orange Blossom) from Vermont &

Florida– $2 OFF

· 1 lb Wildflower raw honey

from Vermont–$1 Off

· Elderberry Formula (the smaller, 4 oz) Special $2 OFF For building the immune system and preventing colds & Flu.

· Cosmetics! All our natural cosmetics are 20% OFF

We have other great and even better sales going on at the markets along with quite a few new natural products.

“10,000 Years From Now”

Have you ever wondered where you will be, or what you will be thinking about exactly 10,000 years from now? I have. In fact, I have actually worried about it. That is the kind of mind I have always had. I not only worried about today or tomorrow, I worried about the far out there future.

When I was in my twenties searching for the meaning of life, I spent a lot of time writing down my thoughts, my questions, my dreams. I spent my twenties doing some drinking, drugs (medical & street), some college, some construction. I played some gigs on my horn and string bass. I went camping around America, drove over 8000 miles in less than a month. I tried to grow my hair long, I was in the hippie generation of course. I couldn’t grow my hair long like everybody else, it started to fall out.

I was once told that the scientists figured our sun would eventually burn out in a couple hundred thousand years. I actually got depressed. I thought that this can’t be. They “must” first invent a way that I can live on earth always, then discover a way to save the sun.

When I was 5 years old, my 11-year-old neighbor Margie Finan told me that when I die I can go to heaven if I trust and believe in God. I remember getting very upset. I did not want to die. I asked Margie if God would fix me up at that time and put me back on earth. She told me no.

I could not handle that statement and rejected the whole idea. I am 57 now and I remember that conversation like it was yesterday.

I am a scheduler. One of the few things I enjoyed about being a drywall contractor was that I got to schedule all kinds of things. I grew up wanting to schedule my life and beyond.

*What do you think you will be doing in 10,000 years?

*Where will you be?

Because I am a scheduler, I don’t want to look forward to heart attacks, diabetes, nursing homes and hell. These are not good things. I don’t want these things. Back in my twenties I didn’t seem to care much, but I find myself caring a little more, it seems, every day.

On the subject of hell, there was a builder named Herb, whom I did much drywall work for, many years ago, in the New Hope, PA area. We had many spiritual conversations over the years. He believed that when you die you become plain ions and float out into space and stay there forever floating.

Our last conversation was very interesting. I told him that Jesus would save his soul if he repented of his sins, then he will go to heaven when he dies. Herb told me that he did not believe in God, Jesus, or any of that.

Herb said that we are ions floating in space after we die. My last words were: “Herb, if you are right, then after we die, both of us are going to float into space as ions. (Boring in my mind) However, if I am right, then I will go to heaven (Because of Christ) and you will go to hell.” Scary!…

Herb became quite angry. Herb never hired me again after that. Was it possible that Herb didn’t believe in Christ, or that he didn’t want to believe? Could that be why he became so angry?

Now it would seem to me that if I believed in the Easter Bunny and you believed that the Oak Tree was God, I would think “good for you. You believe in the Oak Tree. You are probably crazy. So…that’s cool! …who cares?” Isn’t that the way the reaction should be if you plain don’t believe in something? Or is there more to it than just not believing?

On the subject of nursing homes, diabetes etc. I also have had many interesting conversations. Many say things like: “Well, you have to die of something anyway, what does it matter what you eat?”

Jack La Lanne is 95 years old. He says “Exercise is king and diet is queen. Together they make a kingdom.” He works out 2 hours a day, takes 40 supplements a day and eats right. He drives a red late model sports car. He says he is happily married and still teaches all over the world with his wife.

I don’t know if you have noticed, but there are a lot of celebrity people dying or dropping dead in their fifties and sixties right now.

That doesn’t mean that it can’t happen to me or you, but I would like to try to enjoy life without that worry or pain. Life is tough enough without worrying if I’m going to get cancer or have a heart attack everyday.

I will not pretend. Everyday lifestyle is an ongoing battle with me. I do not always win. Sometimes I lose. I sometimes eat too many sweets or too much pasta and gain weight. I sometimes slap Jesus in the face by sinning and hurting Him and my fellow man. I hate when I do that.

However, as long as I have breathe, I am going to fight the temptation to sin, eat wrong, and just sit on the couch and watch the idiot box.

My goal is to eat the right foods more and more. Eat the wrong foods less and less. Take the right supplements, exercise, and love instead of getting an attitude.

I do have a lot of great days where I (in my mind) eat right, exercise, and feel good. I find as time goes on, with practice, this is becoming more the norm.

I want to work in the markets and teach others about good diet, preventing disease, and living for Christ, to over 100 years old. Like Paul Bragg at 95 going surfing, I hope at 95, I can be a living testimony at the markets and all other areas of my life.

This is what I believe. This is what I was searching for in my twenties, but I was too full of myself and cream donuts to find what I was looking for.

Dear friends, good food, according to Dr. Lorraine Day, Dr Fuhrman, Dr. Norman Walker, Jack La Lanne and Doctor George Malkmus, are large amounts of greens, lots of fresh drinking water, whole grains, raw nuts and seeds, fresh fruit and fresh vegetable juices.

Go for relaxing walks, exercise with dumb bells, take in the sunshine, dance, laugh, sing songs to people, our loved ones, our cats and dogs and to Jesus. Let’s love our enemies. We don’t have to like them. LOL! Have a vegan tomato pie with vegan cheese, tomato sauce, mushrooms, spinach, garlic, caramelized onions and veggie meatballs.

Thanks for putting up with me.

Hope to see you at the markets,

Mark

570-401-1353 www.HallelujahHive.com

“This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life………………………”Deuteronomy 30:19