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Apple Cider Vinegar and Weightloss with Miraculoss: Video
In this episode, Kim visits Fiona and Kimba from Mana Natural Health & Beauty to discuss how they use CoralTree’s Apple Cider Vinegar in their MiracuLoss Weight Loss programme. They also talk about why Apple Cider Vinegar is so important to restoring gut health, balancing digestion issues and resorting the body’s natural processes.
If you would like more information on the MiracuLoss programme visit: www.miraculoss.co.nz or pop along to their clinic at 99 St Andrews Road in Plimmerton.
Transcription
Kim: Hi. Kim at CoralTree here. Just brought you along to Mana Health and Beauty to introduce you to Kimba and Fiona, who run the Miraculoss Weight Loss Program here. Come along and I’ll introduce you to them. Fiona: Miraculoss is a holistic approach to weight loss and weight management. We look at a person’s entire health and well-being, help them to achieve a healthy weight, and balance their body so they can easily maintain their new weight long-term. We love the CoralTree apple cider vinegar for a number of reasons. We incorporate it as a integral part of our weight loss and weight management program. Our aim is to help our clients change habits for the better and develop long-term healthy habits that will help them keep their weight off and to have a healthy, balanced body, and apple cider vinegar forms a very important part of that. We particularly like the CoralTree product because it’s organic, we know how it’s made, it’s very, very high quality, and we get great results with it. So it’s making small changes to our daily lives that make the biggest difference in our long-term health and wellness, and it’s really great to be able to work with a product like apple cider vinegar that’s affordable and that’s easy for people to build into their lives as a daily habit, and it makes such a big difference long-term to their health and wellness. We find our clients love it. Once they get started on it, we find that they stay on it for the rest of their lives, and that’s the whole plan. We want them to, because we know it’s beneficial to their digestion. Once a person’s digestion is working really well, then they can absorb all the nutrients and it helps to eradicate a whole host of escalating health problems that could occur when you have poor digestion. So apple cider vinegar is also really beneficial for detoxing, and that’s a big part of a healthy body and maintaining a healthy weight. Our clients just keep buying it because they know it makes a really big difference to how they feel and how their body works. We also use apple cider vinegar in a range of other ways. We’ve been known to use it to help people with various skin conditions. You can apply it topically for itchy scalp and psoriasis and eczema. We’ve found it very beneficial from that point of view also. We really love working with the CoralTree product because, as a supplier, CoralTree are absolutely fantastic. Their product is always of an exceptionally high quality, consistently always the same. They are there for us if we have any questions, we can just give them a call. They’re our favorite supplier. Kimba: I’ve seen many results with dramatic … People come with very big health issues and they leave with way less health issues. Their doctors are very happy and they just build it into their daily lives after the program. Many of them just keep coming back and it’s a daily, just like we clean our teeth, we do that as well. We’ve seen lots of dramatic results from people, and apple cider is part of the whole picture. It’s a core product for the program. On a personal note, my daughter needs it every day, and if she doesn’t, she builds retention, fluid retention up around her rings and wrists and ankles and she just knows when she needs it. Her body tells her and it just balances her back out. So we have it in our house. I bought a 5-liter one time. Our clients come to us with many health issues. Diabetes, very common. Joint health issues, arthritis, a lot of toxicity-related issues. Headaches, migraines, skin issues, liver issues. Lots of digestion issues. Processed food-related issues. When they finish with us at Miraculoss, their health issues are in quite a different place and they carry on with the habits we’ve encouraged them to do, apple cider being one of them. We see it as a whole food, apple cider vinegar. They also take whole salt, natural unprocessed salt, for the rest of their lives. Their doctors are very happy. Many clients are taken off their medicines. Some of them come in with 14 or 15 medicines and they’re off all of them. We encourage a lifestyle change, and apple cider vinegar’s part of that, and water, and salt, and good probiotics. Kim: So, thanks for watching the video, and thank you Kimba and Fiona for sharing your story. Please share this video around with any of your friends and family. Thanks for watching. 
Apple Cider Vinegar and Allergies: The Evidence
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. This is such an old adage but still so accurate, even in the modern world. Fermenting that apple into apple cider vinegar? Even better! Vinegar has been used for centuries, all the way back to the time of Hippocrates for its antibacterial and antiviral properties. Fast forward hundreds of years and apple cider vinegar has been proven by modern science to be beneficial for MORE than just that. It can prevent a whole array of diseases including allergies.
So, how does it do that?
Making vinegar involves a long fermentation process that brings out the rich bioactive compounds in the fruit. It increases its innate antioxidant and antimicrobial potency. The food that we eat is so important because the intestines are not just a long tube that digests that food. It also hosts 80-90% of our immune system’s cells. Feeding it with healthy bacteria from fermented sources and plant-nutrients is the best way to keep it in shape.
Apple cider vinegar is effective in keeping the pH of the body balanced. In doing so, it provides an overall cleansing effect and helps to clear out lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are organs in the body where bacteria, viruses, fungi and other toxins accumulate. They are the swellings that you feel in your neck and at the back of your throat during hay fever season or when you become ill. Since allergies are basically a way for the body to get rid of acidic toxins, keeping the body pH balanced, or even slightly alkaline, will help to eliminate allergies. In this way, apple cider vinegar helps to reduce mucus production, sinus congestion and sore throats related to allergic reactions.
And, you know what else?
Apple cider vinegar is not just useful for allergies. The polyphenol compounds in it, such as chlorogenic acid, has been shown to prevent oxidation of the bad cholesterol, LDL, and prevent heart disease. Other studies have shown that the amino acids in unprocessed vinegar reduce inflammation after exercise and reduce muscle damage. Numerous researchers have linked vinegar with improved insulin sensitivity in diabetic patients and more stable blood sugar levels making the disease easier to control. It also helps to curb appetite, which helps them lose weight more effectively. Double win! When used in cooking, vinegar is effective in preventing E. coli and salmonella contamination. The list of benefits just goes on and on.
The healthiest kinds of apple cider vinegars are:
- Made from organic produce,
- Unfiltered or unprocessed.
The Environmental Working Group’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ list of produce highlights the 12 fruits and vegetables that have the highest pesticide contamination. Apples, unfortunately, have come out as the number 1 produce on that list for many years running.
As with other foods, the more processed something is, the less beneficial it is for us. Unprocessed apple cider vinegars will have a murky appearance and strand-like substances in the bottle called the ‘mother’. Just how mothers all over bring life into the world, this is also what the mother in the apple cider vinegar does. It’s packed with phytonutrients essential to a vibrant life, full of healthy gut bacteria, proteins and enzymes. Other manufacturers remove the mother because they are scared consumers won’t buy a cloudy-looking product. But, we at CoralTree believe that you deserve only the best.
Apple cider vinegar can protect you and your family from allergies naturally. No more drowsiness from expensive antihistamines. By buying CoralTree’s Organic Apple Cider Vinegar, you are assured that you are getting the finest quality apple cider vinegar. No worrying about toxins from pesticides as only certified organic apples are used in its manufacture. It is naturally fermented and unfiltered, leaving the goodness of the whole apple behind in every bottle.
References:
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Infection Prevention with Apple Cider Vinegar: The Evidence
We’ve all heard of the term ‘superfoods’ by now. But have you heard of ‘superliquid’? Well, if someone does come up with that list, we are sure that Apple Cider Vinegar would be on it. From controlling diabetes to preventing heart disease; helping people lose weight by curbing appetites and relieving allergies. The medical uses for apple cider vinegar are, indeed, numerous. Here, we present the evidence on its infection preventing properties.
1. Apple Cider Vinegar helps prevent food contamination
Most of the scientific evidence available talks about its antimicrobial powers in preventing food contamination. In particular, various studies have shown that it reduces contamination with organisms such as E.Coli (which causes diarrhea), Listeria Monocytogenes (which causes listeriosis), and Salmonella Typhimurium (which causes typhoid fever). Vinegars were compared to other methods of washing produce prior to cooking in these scenarios and produced favorable results.
2. Treating fungal infections with Apple Cider Vinegar
A more recent study published by researchers in the 2011 Thi-Qar Medical Journal revealed surprising properties of Apple Cider Vinegar against the fungus, Candida Albicans. This study was performed in the laboratory to compare the effects of Apple Cider Vinegar to traditional antifungal drugs of Western medicine, in particular Fluconazole. They targeted patients with otomycosis, a condition where the ear canal is infected with a fungus.
Otomycosis is on the rise worldwide because of the widespread use of steroids and other medications that can suppress the immune system. Ear swabs from these patients showed that the 2 most common fungi colonies were Candida Albicans and Aspergillus Species. They then tested the response of the fungus to both treatments. Amazingly, results showed that the effectiveness of Apple Cider Vinegar against Candida was even better than Fluconazole. Both were effective against Aspergillus, but Fluconazole did not inhibit the growth of Candida. On the other hand, apple cider vinegar did!
Based on these study results, it was suggested that apple cider vinegar could prove to be a safer add-on therapy or substitute treatment for fungal infections. Granted, this was only a small study involving 18 patients, but results like theirs can’t be refuted and this will surely lead to bigger clinical trials soon.
3. Using Apple Cider Vinegar to treat infections
Apple cider vinegar can be used in a variety of ways for medicinal purposes. The National Candida Center in America talks about a daily douching method for vaginal yeast infections using 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar with 1 cup of warm filtered water. Dr. Theresa Ramsey, a naturopathic doctor and author, gives the suggestion of using it as tonic gargle by adding 1 teaspoon to half a cup of water in cases of acute tonsillitis infections. She also recommends using apple cider vinegar as a topical treatment for athlete’s foot, rashes, calluses, acne and warts.
A long history of success
The benefits of apple cider vinegar have been recorded all the way back to ancient Greek times in 3000 BC. The ancient Chinese, Japanese and European people also used it considerably. It’s intriguing that in today’s modern world, we are still using a product that was discovered thousands of years ago. But, we think that just proves its amazing abilities. That’s why the saying goes, “to eat an apple before going to bed will make the doctor beg for his bread”. So, come and check out our full product range!
See for yourself how taking CoralTree’s organic, unfiltered Apple Cider Vinegar regularly might just help you skip that visit to the doctor. Order your CoralTree Organic Apple Cider Vinegar online now.
References on Apple Cider Vinegar and Treating Infections
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Singapore Food Event: Taste New Zealand Showcase
Next month, CoralTree Organics founder Kim Baker is headed to Singapore for a very special event, showcasing the high quality and delicious food products and cuisine of our beautiful country, New Zealand!
The Taste New Zealand Cold Storage Food Fair is an annual event that will take place this year between 23-29 May. The Food Fair comprises a pop-up store at Plaza Singapura, one of Singapore’s largest shopping malls located on Orchard Road, along with a two-week in-store promotion involving 25 of Cold Storage’s premium outlets. Last year, around 1,500 people visited the Plaza Singapura pop-up store every day! Visitors can look forward to tasting and sampling some of New Zealand’s finest fare, from artisan cheese and wines to healthy snacks, as well as enjoying live cooking demonstrations!
CoralTree will have a stall at Taste New Zealand for the seventh year running where you can meet Kim Baker in person, try some of our Premium products and stock up on our organic Apple Cider Vinegar. Liquid sunshine from pure, green New Zealand! We had a great time last year meeting lots of our amazing fans in Singapore and making lots of new friends and we this year we want to make even more.
Now is your chance to meet the maker and get your hands and taste buds around our liquid sunshine; our premium apple cider vinegar. If you’re in or around Singapore from the 23rd-29th May, head on over to the Plaza Singapura and say hello!
CoralTree will be there alongside other premium New Zealand brands, such as NZ Honey Co’s UMF-rated manuka honey, Jed’s Coffee, Mother Earth snacks, Abe’s Bagels, Annie’s fruit leathers, Harraways oats and Ceres Organics.
CoralTree in Singapore: Meet the Maker
Now is your chance to meet the maker! This week our passionate leader, Kim Baker of CoralTree, is in Singapore for the Cold Storage NZ Road Show event.
Head on over to Plaza Singapura Atrium any time between 23rd – 29th May to get a taste of New Zealand, with a broad selection of NZ food and products on offer. The mall is open, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day. Kim will be more than happy to give you a tasting and tell you all about the amazing benefits of CoralTree’s Organic Apple Cider Vinegar.
CoralTree will be there alongside other premium New Zealand brands, such as NZ Honey Co’s UMF-rated manuka honey, Jed’s Coffee, Mother Earth snacks, Abe’s Bagels, Annie’s fruit leathers, Harraways oats and Ceres Organics.
See you at Plaza Singapura!
Buy1Give1: making an impact in the world
It all started in the middle of rural India
It was a three-hour drive north of Mumbai by bus to our hotel. Then another hour drive the next day. Transferred into a four-wheel drive vehicle and another half hour up a very steep dirt track before we arrived at a square building in the middle of nowhere.
As it happens, this trip to a tribal village school would be the shining highlight of my trip to India. But at the time, it felt like a long way to go for a tradesman’s errand. I was told we were off to install a computer and help paint the school building. Little did I know the experience that awaited.
A school room with a view
The school room was a very simple 5 to 6 metre square concrete building. Beside the room a beautifully-decorated marquee had been erected and the tribal children were all there waiting to greet us.
The tribal elders came and after a brief introduction all of our B1G1 group got the turban headwear and a coconut gift. We were being treated like royalty and it is with great honour that I wear this headdress.
We were shown the computer and how the children were starting to get to grips with using it. The B1G1 group started working on painting Disney cartoons on the outside of the school room. Not long after we were called away as the ceremonies to officially open the school building were getting started.
The story behind the story started to unfold
These marginalised tribal communities have been slowly pushed out of the more productive lower lands and over the years have retreated to these barren mountain tops where no one else can survive.
Undernourishment is a daily challenge, and the pressure is always on just to survive. As such, the children’s education is a luxury. Therefore the cycle of extreme poverty continues.
The very simple act of us Westerners showing up, and the bright Disney paintings on the building both stimulated the interest of the children. They wanted to see what these outsiders with the silly clothing were up to. But it also gave pride to the tribal elder – we were there giving our time to see their community thrive and trying to lend a hand.
Part way thru the ceremonies the women had been singing a song to the group (in their own langaugee) with lots of cheeky laughter and banter going back and forth when the song was finished. Dr Satay (one of the main co-ordinators for this project) explained what the women were singing. When these women go down to the main town further down the mountains they can’t read the destination on the buses. They’re not able to find there way around. They are completely disconnected from the main support in the area. These women were asking the tribal community to be better involved in this school to help with their education and enable them to better integrate with the main towns below.
After lunch we were shown through the rest of the village. Just over a small ridge were located a handful of small homes made of dirt where the community lived.
I’m a long-time farmer. I came with great ideas of showing these peoples how to grow organically. But I could not match their ability to survive in such a barren desert-like terrain. With just a cow and a goat and a simple crop of grain these people are doing amazingly well to live a life with dignity. It was a great privilege to meet with them and do such a small thing that I hope will help the next generation to take a step forward.
The next day, we visited another very similar tribal school that the previous B1G1 group had visited and installed the computer the year before. To see the difference, with the children proudly standing up the front reciting the ABC, was truly inspiring.
Strategic philanthropy
Dr Staya describes it as ‘strategic philanthrop.’
Just a small amount of resources correctly placed into communities that are ready and eager to move forward, can make such a large amount of progress. The B1G1 team have found those first dominoes start a chain reaction and make a world of difference.
Seeing the incredible work that organisations that work with the community to help them achieve their aims, rather than telling them what needs to be done was truly inspiring. Asking what these people wanted help with and delivering just that was refreshing.
And as such CoralTree is very proud to be joining Buy1Give1 (B1G1) as a Business Partner.
For you, this means that by buying our products you contribute to high-impact, community-led projects happening around the world.
For us, we get to have the best possible impact on the world we live in by producing the best products we can. And that makes us feel amazing.
So we are rearing to go. We will be bringing you updates on the projects that we sponsor, so you can keep an eye on the good we are all making happen. Make sure you’re following us on Facebook to keep up to date.
Thanks for supporting CoralTree and helping us make a difference.
–Kim Baker.
12 March, 2016
Tour of Kim Baker’s Eco-home
They say a man’s home is his castle. But Kim Baker’s looks a bit more like a castle than most. Built by hand using recycled materials, this eco-home embodies the essence of CoralTree Organics: working closely with nature to provide better health outcomes for humanity.
Take a quick tour of where CoralTree began and get a glimpse into the home and the man behind the product.
Kim’s house tour from Soulhaven on Vimeo.
Video: Summer in the Organic Apple Orchard
Another behind-the-scenes look at how we grow and harness nature’s vital energies to make the best organic Apple Cider Vinegar. One of the key components is the biodynamic orchard integration and careful management of the natural processes that grow our fruit. And central to our philosophy is diversity leads to resilience.
To see more of the behind-the-scenes action at CoralTree HQ, subscribe to the CoralTree YouTube channel or follow us on Facebook.
Don’t forget to leave us a comment. Got questions? We are happy to answer them for you. It’s all part of our mission to bring you the very best product in the most natural way.
Transcription
Hi, welcome. Kim from CoralTree here. We’re here at one of our organic orchards just on the outskirts of Otaki. The Otaki River is just behind us here. We’ve got the Tararua Ranges to our left and the coast, west coast here, not far away. Otaki is a really lovely spot on the beautiful Kapiti Coast. We’ve got the Otaki River bringing down all that lovely fertile silts down that have set the Otaki plains here growing. We’ve got abundance of growth happening at the moment. Moisture, there’s been a little bit of a problem this season. We’ve had a little bit too much rain, but things are starting to warm up now. The sunshine is really coming through. We’ve got the longest day of the year happening in the next few days, and the apple trees are really going well.
It is really lovely being in these orchards and there is an energy that sometimes we’re not aware of. I can hear the birds singing here. A little bird flying from tree to tree there, and the whole insect life that’s happening. Normally in an environment like this where we’ve got the herbal leys and the trees and then the bigger shelter trees behind us is hosting a whole range of different things that are going on.
Conventional orchards are run with complete control so there is chemical sprays and insecticides there, and it becomes an environmental desert, but we’ve got this oasis happening here that’s just bringing in all of those diverse elements. The whole complexities, even more complex I think than what we are seeing. There’s a whole lot of different elements coming together here to add that resilience that nature gives us. I hope you enjoyed the first couple of videos. We’ve been trying to introduce you to some of the simple concepts of growing so in the first videos we showed the life force starting and the dormancy process moving into leaves and flowers developing.
The second video we’re showing you the flowers and the diversity that that brings into the orchards and the fruit setting and the seeds starting to form inside as those flowers have been pollinated. Now what we’re looking at is obviously the fruit here is developing around the seed, and the tree has got lots and lots of green leaves, and so the next element I really want to bring in now is the sunshine. That’s the key driver for all life processes on the planet. The trees are simply the solar panels taking that solar energy and converting it through photosynthesis and now building that energy that they’re harvesting into beautiful fruit.
This period now, starting from spring, as the fruit is forming the trees have been going through a lot of cell division and multiplication trying to get that fruit forming and setting. It’s been quite a stressful period for the trees, but we’re now coming up to the longest day of the year which will trigger the tree from the development phase that it’s been going through into that ripening phase where these apples will be expanding and the sugar contents will be rising.
The point I’m trying to work through here is that the photosynthesis from the sunshine, through the leaf converting that energy into energy that it’s transferring into, obviously, growth and branches and leaves, but most particularly into that fruit, so the fruit will be ripening up between now and our harvest time and that’s the sugars that the fruit is offering for us.
What’s happening here, some of the things that I can see happening here. The organic growers are allowing this whole diversity that normally would be chemically sprayed out, and weed strips under the trees. They’re allowing these things that we would normally term weed, but they’re part of the whole natural cycle that nature is trying to work some kind of a balance back into these blocks and using these diverse range of plants. We’ve got right from clovers, plantains, and the thistles, and blackberry even coming through to bring quality back onto the property that here was removed when we’ve come in and disrupted it.
The organic grower is really focusing on trying to allow nature that freedom to work with us instead of against us, and using the things that she’s offering us in a positive way so that it’s helping the trees here to balance. We’re getting better biological activity happening down in the soil. We’re getting much more earthworm and fungal growths happening that are transforming all the leaf litter into good humus so the tree has got a really good strong solid base to be growing, both lovely leaves, and this beautiful fruit for us. It’s so easy for humans to go back to controlling and chemically intervening in these systems to try and do what they think is beneficial, but it just adds a whole restraint on nature. It stops nature from working and giving us the diversity that she sees needs to be put into these blocks.
Thanks for watching, everybody. I hope you’ve enjoyed this third video. We’ve tried to add a little bit more interesting information in for you to explain more of the organic environment that George and Jackie here have been creating, and I’d like to just thank them for having this special space here and allowing us to shoot. Over the next month or so we’ll be taking some shots into the processing plant and showing more of the production of our apple cider vinegar, so please leave any comments and questions below. Yeah. Look forward to seeing you next time.
Video: Flowering & Diversity in the Organic Apple Orchard
Another behind-the-scenes look at how we grow and harness nature’s vital energies to make the best organic Apple Cider Vinegar. One of the key components is the biodynamic orchard integration and careful management of the natural processes that grow our fruit. And central to our philosophy is diversity leads to resilience.
To see more of the behind-the-scenes action at CoralTree HQ, subscribe to the CoralTree YouTube channel or follow us on Facebook.
Don’t forget to leave us a comment. Got questions? We are happy to answer them for you. It’s all part of our mission to bring you the very best product in the most natural way.
Transcription
Hi. Welcome back. I’m Kim from CoralTree. We’re here on a small orchard block that’s on the outskirts of Otaki. I want to show you some of the diversity that’s happening here in our orchard. Come on through, and I’ll show you what’s going on. This time of year the apple trees are quite susceptible to a whole range of different problems. Normally the insect problems or fungal problems would be chemically controlled. We here have got the diversity of the animals through the system for a whole range of different reasons. It’s meat production, it’s egg production, but they’re also doing an incredible valuable asset to the orchard in helping to fertilize it and in particular in the next month or so helping the insect control here under the apple trees.
This is a Monty’s Surprise apple tree that we’ve got here growing. It’s one of the old Heritage variety of apples that we are trying to get that diversity back into the orchards. The Heritage apples will give us that resilience back again. We’ve got a lovely sunny day here today. The bees are out flying. They’re pollinating these flowers that are fully opened here. These are some flowers that petals have fallen, and the stamen have been pollinated. The key thing that nature is showing us is the diversity that she constantly produces. Each one of those little stamen are going to develop into a completely unique plant variety.
This is an old Monty’s Surprise that I’ve just kept in the chiller from last season, just to see how long it’s going to last. I’m just interested to see what it’s texture is still like. It’s obviously starting to deteriorate. This is one of the perks of being an organic grower. Just being able to see and observe nature’s formative processes happening, the 5 petals, the flower is still here in the flesh of the apple.
Thank you for watching. If you want any more information on Monty’s Surprise, the Heritage apples we’re growing here, check out the website, CoralTree.co.nz and stay tuned. We’ll be doing another video with some apples growing on some of the other blocks and leave any comments below. Thanks.
Video: First Bud Break in the Organic Apple Orchard
The first in a series of videos that take you through growing the apples and producing the best Organic Apple Cider Vinegar. If you would like to see more of the behind-the-scenes action at CoralTree HQ, subscribe to the CoralTree YouTube channel or follow us on Facebook.
Don’t forget to leave us a comment. Got questions? We are happy to answer them for you. It’s all part of our mission to bring you the very best product in the most natural way.
Transcription
Hi. I’m Kim at CoralTree. This is the orchard, here, the home block. We have been making apple cider vinegar for the last 25 years. It’s a really exciting time of the year. The flowers are just coming through. I’d really like to show you some of the processes that are going on now and what makes apple cider vinegar so wonderful. Come along for the journey.
This is the apple block at CoralTree Orchard. The buds are only just starting to open up now. The green tip is starting to come through in a few places. These are a later flowering tree. I can’t see much flowering happening on this yet. The key is that this life process is starting to unfold. Here’s an old pruning from last season that has got no life-force left in it. It’s dead and it’s gone brittle. This is starting to move. Come on through the rest of the orchard and we will see if we can find some flowers.
This is a pear tree. We’ve got both apples and pears, here, on the home block. There’s not a lot of other apples that are flowering yet. This is an early flowering pear tree. It’s really going for it. The sap is rising. There’s lots of blossom just about to open and flowers that are open, ready to be pollinated. This life process that’s happening here is the critical bit that’s going on here. Just to try to give you some practical understanding of that life process, this grass here is all alive. When it’s put under stress, when it’s damaged, it will continue to heal itself. It’s trying to maintain that equilibrium and that growth process. The second that it’s cut off from the roots, it will no longer be able to heal itself. That’s going to continue to deteriorate. There’s no chance of it healing and maintaining its balance.
The apple tree is in that flow of life-giving properties. The energy is coming through and wanting to form those flowers, wanting to grow that fruit for us. That’s the energy, the balance process that I want to try and bring into my apple cider vinegar. That’s the important part that gives us that health-giving benefits. When our body is enabled to back to a balanced point, the PH balance is corrected, then the energy and the life force that we’ve got will maintain our health.
We’re at Baker’s acres property here. I just wanted to bring you here to show you the sheep that we’ve got grazing here on the property. Rather than mechanically mowing the orchard, we just try to integrate another aspect of the natural process, here, onto the orchard. It’s all these little things that we’re trying to do to build up that total energy into the apple cider vinegar, making the very, very best of every opportunity we’ve got.
Please, any comments that you’ve got … We’ll be running more videos over the next 6 months. Each month we’ll be coming through with a different stage of the orchard’s progress. So, any comments or questions you’ve got, leave them below. Visit the www.coraltree.co.nz website. Thanks for your time.
Recipes for Herbal Stock Drench with Apple Cider Vinegar
CoralTree Organic Apple Cider Vinegar is a safe, organic and complete stock drench for your animals. We can supply in bulk quantities, making this a very cost-effective option for farm management.
Base Recipe
Use 1kg of fresh herbs to 20 litres of Organic Cider Vinegar. Brew for at least 2 weeks in a warm place, stirring daily. Strain and store in a dark place – it will last indefinitely.
Herbs to cleanse the body of internal parasites:
Wormwood : Use the flowering tops in moderation due to its bitter taste. The volatile oil it contains is extremely potent. Tansy: Use leaves and flowering tops, also in moderation, as large doses can cause abortion during pregnancy. Pumpkin Seed: Ripe seed, as fresh as possible. Crush these up and add to the Cider Vinegar. Nasturtium: Leaves and seeds. Nasturtium is an anthelmintic and richly medicinal as a tonic and cleanser. Stinging Nettle: Leaves and roots. Another great herb rich in minerals. Herbs for a tonic:
Plantain, Dandelion, Chickweed.
Herbs to calm:
Recommended before transportation:
Chamomile: Flowering Tops
Valerian: Root