Greens N Grains Natural Foods Market & Café

Open daily in downtown Egg Harbor, Wisconsin…

During Door County’s “quiet season” we are open daily from 10 am – 5 pm. The Cafe is open on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10 am – 4 pm.

In the summer season: We are open daily, Sunday through Thursday from 9 am until 6 pm and on Fridays and Saturdays open until 7 pm. The Cafe is open daily from 9 am – 5 pm in the busy season.

For more information, please call 920.868.9999.

Click the Monthly Specials page to download the latest pdf flyer full of discounts on featured products.

The Greens N Grains Cafe provides a great breakfast and lunch menu, snacks, raw foods, fresh fruit smoothies and full service coffee and espresso bar. Free Wifi…

“The Price of Sand” is a documentary about the frac sand mining boom in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Due to a rapid increase in demand, pure silica sand has become a valuable commodity, and mines are opening here at a rapid rate.

The silica used in hydraulic fracturing (aka : “fracking”), has other uses- glass manufacturing and toothpaste, for instance – and a few established mines have been in operation here for decades. But now, new companies have arrived, and land with accessible silica deposits is selling for high prices.

In addition to a bonanza for a few lucky landowners, the new mines promise jobs and economic stimulus for the small towns and rural areas nearby.

“Two years ago, an oil company bought a tract of land near my mother’s house, in rural Goodhue County, Minnesota. The prospect of an open pit mine led to the formation of an opposition group, a series of public meetings, and a temporary county moratorium on frac sand mining,” says Jim Tittle, the film’s director.

He decided to visit people who live near existing frac sand mines and interview them for what eventually resulted in a series of YouTube videos.

“They told me stories of intense truck traffic, plummeting property values, toxic silica dust… a catalog of complaints that surprised me with its variety and intensity,” he explains.

He knew that YouTube short films can provoke discussion (56,000 views so far), but the story of this mining boom is far more complex. So he set out to raise the money to produce a full-length feature “The Price of Sand,” with new stories and a more comprehensive look at what’s happening.

You are invited to learn the real price of frac sand, not just in dollars, but in lost friendships, disrupted communities and the potential future of Wisconsin at the next Greens N Grains film screening on Thursday, February 5.

The GNG Cafe offers a natural and organic dinner special each evening before the Film Society screening. Enjoy a delicious soup specialty, salad, a fresh baked roll and a cup of tea for $7.50, available from 6 pm on. The Film Society screenings take place at 7 pm and there is no charge to attend but seating is limited to 28 people. Dinner and film reservations are requested. RSVP by calling 920.868.9999 or by email to info@greens-n-grains.com.

Greens N Grains Natural Food Store is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. The Café is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the quiet season, from 10 am – 4 pm, except on movie nights.

Nicole James, CNC, Functional Medicine Clinician and Certified Nutritionist will present Weight Loss for Life! – a free seminar at Greens N Grains Natural Food Store in Egg Harbor on Thursday, January 22 beginning at 1 pm.

“Have you tried every fad diet known but still haven’t lost any weight? Or worse – did you lose weight and have it come roaring back shortly thereafter?” questions Nicole. “The truth is, you might have a specific health issue that is standing in the way between you and your ideal body.”

Greens N Grains Natural Food Store is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. The Café is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the quiet season, from 10 am – 4 pm. The GNG Website features news and monthly discount specials online.

A documentary about GTAC’s controversial proposal to dig an open-pit iron mine in Northern Wisconsin will be the feature at the next Dinner and a Movie Night at Greens N Grains Cafe on Thursday, January 22. The 25-minute film will be followed by a community discussion.

Produced and directed by Milwaukee-based 371 Productions, “Wisconsin’s Mining Standoff” takes viewers to Ashland and Iron Counties, where Cline Resources’ subsidiary GTAC has set off a battle over the state’s natural resources by proposing to dig what could be one of North America’s largest open pit mines in Wisconsin’s Penokee Hills. The film explores the potential impacts of the mine and how legislation changed the state’s mining laws.

“Wisconsin’s Mining Standoff” was commissioned by Al Jazeera America’s award-winning investigative documentary program “Fault Lines” and premiered in June 2014. The film is now touring the state in a series of screenings followed by community discussions and panels. It addresses a crucial issue for Wisconsinites.

“Fault Lines” correspondent Josh Rushing traveled to Ashland and Iron Counties to report the story. Viewers meet the players at the heart of the standoff, visiting a century old family-owned dairy farm that could be impacted by the mine. We hike deep in the woods in the harshest of winters to spend time with the Chippewa tribes who have set up an education and resistance camp to oppose the mine. The Bad River Chippewa tribe, who have lived in the region for generations, raise concerns that acid mine drainage would contaminate the water, fish and wild rice on which they depend. And we meet Leslie Kolesar, Chairwoman of the Iron County Mining Impact Committee, who tells “Fault Lines” the mine would bring 700 desperately needed jobs to a region with high unemployment.

“Fault Lines” talks to Wisconsin State Senator Bob Jauch, who opposes this mining project and tells us how GTAC ignored its critics. We also talk to Bob Seitz, Director of External Affairs for GTAC, who denies allegations that the company had a hand in writing mining legislation and defends the company’s record of environmental and safety violations.

It’s an unfolding battle in a pristine wilderness where even the tiny Iron County board election attracts money from outsiders like the Koch brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity. This is a story about money and power versus environmental concerns and a way of life for thousands of local residents. It’s a story ultimately about the state of our democracy.

Greens N Grains Cafe offers a natural and organic dinner special each evening before the film screenings. Enjoy a delicious soup specialty, salad, a fresh baked roll and a cup of tea for $7.50, available from 6 pm on. The film screenings at 7 pm are free, but loft area seating is limited to 30 people. Dinner and film reservations are advisable. RSVP by calling 920.868.9999 or by email to info@greens-n-grains.com.

Greens N Grains Natural Food Store is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. The Café is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the quiet season, from 10 am – 4 pm, except on movie nights. The GNG Website features the official film trailer, news and monthly discount specials online at Greens-N-Grains.com.

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) has updated the Wisconsin Local Food Marketing Guide.

New entries in this third edition include information about business development, using social media for marketing, business contracts, updated regulations and more. The guide may be downloaded for no cost from DATCP’s Website and can be mailed upon request.

The Local Food Marketing Guide includes information and strategies about reaching consumers directly through farmers markets, community supported agriculture, agritourism, farm markets, roadside stands and pick-your-own operations. It also includes information on selling through intermediate channels such as restaurants, grocery stores, schools, hospitals and distributors. The guide can help farmers and retailers make decisions about pricing, labeling and insurance. It also provides guidelines for getting proper licensing, following regulations and meeting food-safety standards.

The guide is a service of DATCP’s Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin program. Download a 106-page pdf copy of the guide at http://datcp.wi.gov/Business/Buy_Local_Buy_Wisconsin. Request a hard copy by emailing DatcpBLBW@Wisconsin.gov or by calling Kietra Olson at 608.224.5112.

The first edition garnered the Wisconsin Library Association Government Roundtable’s Distinguished Document Award, and was one of 12 documents to receive the American Library Association’s Notable State Government Document Award.

Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin is an economic development program designed to increase the amount of Wisconsin-grown and produced foods available for purchase by local consumers including families, institutions and businesses. The program offers education, technical assistance and other resources.

Dam removal has moved beyond the fictional Monkey Wrench Gang to go mainstream.

Ben Knight films the former Elwha Dam before its removal. Elwha River, Washington in a scene from DAMNATION. Photo: Travis Rummel

This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers. Where obsolete dams come down, rivers bound back to life, giving salmon and other wild fish the right of return to primeval spawning grounds, after decades without access. DamNation’s majestic cinematography and unexpected discoveries move through rivers and landscapes altered by dams, but also through a metamorphosis in values, from conquest of the natural world to knowing ourselves as part of nature.

Produced by Patagonia, a manufacturer of high-end outdoor apparel, as an offshoot of its endangered-fish-saving World Trout Initiative, the film documents the havoc our nation has inflicted upon native fish populations by building 75,000 dams over approximately a 90-year span.

Chris Packham of the Village Voice says, “While many enviro-docs basically lower the audience into a dark well of hopelessness and then roll the credits, DamNation concludes with a triumphant fusillade of explosions, as communities across the country decommission and demolish environmentally destructive dams.”

Greens N Grains Cafe offers a natural and organic dinner special each evening before the Film Society screenings. Enjoy a delicious soup specialty, salad, a fresh baked roll and a cup of tea for $7.50, available from 6 pm on. The Film Society screenings at 7 pm are free, but loft area seating is limited to 30 people. Dinner and film reservations are advisable. RSVP by calling 920.868.9999 or by email to info@greens-n-grains.com.

Greens N Grains Cafe is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the quiet season, from 10 am – 4 pm, except on movie nights when they remain open until 9 pm. The Natural Food Store is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. The Website features the official film trailer as well as news and monthly discount specials.

Kathy Navis invites everyone to visit Greens’ N Grains Natural Food Store and Café on Thursday, December 18 for a 1 pm presentation by Dr. Nicole James followed later in the evening with the biweekly Dinner and a Movie film screening event beginning at 6 pm.

Dr. Nicole James from Sturgeon Bay’s Center for Optimal Health will be discussing and answering questions regarding the launch of the Center For Optimal Health’s new CANcer THRIVEr program.

Their science-based treatments have proved to be an effective alternative/addition to traditional chemotherapy and radiation. This program is an individualized approach to healing the body, mind and spirit.

Each month Nicole visits Greens N Grains in Egg Harbor to share valuable, healthy nutrition-based approaches to achieving your potential in well being. There is no charge to attend.

This is the movie the food industry doesn’t want you to see!

FED UP blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history. From Katie Couric, Laurie David (Oscar winning producer of An Inconvenient Truth) and director Stephanie Soechtig, FED UP will change the way you eat forever.
“See the film at 7 pm on Thursday, December 18 and then join us and the filmmakers in taking the FED UP Challenge,” says Kathy Navis. “Join our cause and go sugar-free for 10 days. You can get details and sign up at the film screening.”

Greens N Grains Cafe offers a natural and organic dinner special each evening before the film screenings. Enjoy a delicious soup specialty, salad, a fresh baked roll and a cup of tea for $7.50, available from 6 pm on. The film screenings at 7 pm are free, but loft area seating is limited to 30 people. Dinner and film reservations are advisable. RSVP by calling 920.868.9999 or by email to info@greens-n-grains.com.

Greens N Grains Natural Food Store is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. The Café is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the quiet season, from 10 am – 4 pm, except on movie nights when they remain open until 9 pm.

Virunga is the incredible true story of a group of brave people risking their lives to build a better future in a part of Africa the world has forgotten and a gripping exposé of the realities of life in the Congo.

Corruption, compassion, the imperiled gorillas and the people of the Democratic Republic of Congo lie at the core of this film, the next feature screening on Thursday, December 4 at Greens N Grains biweekly Dinner and a Movie Night in Egg Harbor.

The film is named after a national park in the Congo, where some of the world’s last mountain gorillas live. It’s the story of SOCO International oil company, M-23, a band of local rebels trying to control their land, fearless Congolese park rangers, an intrepid investigative journalist and soft-spoken Belgian warden fighting to protect it.

“This project has always been about much more than a film,” says Director Orlando von Einsiedel. “By showing the world exactly what was happening in the park, we realized early on that the film could act as a tool in the fight to protect Virunga National Park against SOCO International’s illegal exploration for oil.”

Is there a more dangerous national park on earth? If so, t’s hard to imagine. In some of the footage we see armed rangers cuddling frightened gorilla orphans as they prepare for an imminent M-23 rebel attack. A park warden named Rodrigue Mugaruka Katembo, wears a hidden camera, as does an intrepid young French journalist named Melanie Gouby, in an effort to prove that SOCO is, at best, trying to buy its way into the park. The footage they capture appears pretty damning, showing a Congolese SOCO supporter offering bribes and a French contractor for the company speaking contemptuously about the need to “recolonize these countries.” They risked their lives to make this film.

“If a place as iconic as Africa’s oldest national park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to the last of the world’s mountain gorillas, falls in the face of illegal business interests, what is left on our planet that is safe from human greed?”

Greens N Grains Cafe offers a natural and organic dinner special each evening before the Film Society screenings. Enjoy a delicious soup specialty, salad, a fresh baked roll and a cup of tea for $7.50, available from 6 pm on. The Film Society screenings at 7 pm are free, but loft area seating is limited to 30 people. Dinner and film reservations are advisable. RSVP by calling 920.868.9999 or by email to info@greens-n-grains.com.

Greens N Grains Cafe is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the quiet season, from 10 am – 4 pm, except on movie nights when they remain open until 9 pm. The Natural Food Store is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. The Website features the official film trailer as well as news and monthly discount specials.

Kathy Navis invites everyone to visit Greens’ N Grains Natural Food Store and Café on Thursday, November 20 for a presentation on Women’s Health and Environmental Toxicity at 1 pm followed later in the evening with the biweekly Dinner and a Movie film screening event beginning at 6 pm.

Dr. Nicole James from Sturgeon Bay’s Center for Optimal Health will speak about the impact of everyday household items on your health. She plans to detail the overall health and cancer risk imposed on the unknowing user by many of the typical cleaning and maintenance products used around the home. Nicole will also discuss various other environmental exposure to potentially harmful elements that we encounter daily. She will follow the bad news with some good news on all of the natural alternatives available and outline an approach to daily living that supports hormone balancing and detoxification.

Discover what products are safe to use and what test methods now exist to measure your risk factors in order to prevent disease. Each month Nicole visits Greens N Grains in Egg Harbor to share valuable, healthy nutrition-based approaches to achieving your potential in wellbeing. There is no charge to attend.

Last year, public television officials pulled $150,000 in funds they had committed to the production of Citizen Koch, a documentary on the rise of the Tea Party in the aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling. They cancelled plans for the film’s broadcast premiere, as reported by Jane Mayer in The New Yorker, in fear of losing the financial backing of major PBS donor David Koch, the ultra-conservative billionaire industrialist and WGBH and WNET trustee – effectively censoring the public airwaves. In a stunning turn of events, Academy Award-nominated directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin succeeded to fund the production of their film in one of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns of all time to make up for the lost production funds.

You can see their film at 7 pm on Thursday, November 20. It documents the citizen uprising to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker colliding with the Tea Party-aligned “Americans for Prosperity,” a group founded and lavishly financed by two of the world’s richest men, David and Charles Koch. As Republican working class voters find themselves in the crosshairs of their own party and its billionaire backers, they are forced to choose sides.

Greens N Grains Cafe offers a natural and organic dinner special each evening before the film screenings. Enjoy a delicious soup specialty, salad, a fresh baked roll and a cup of tea for $7.50, available from 6 pm on. The film screenings at 7 pm are free, but loft area seating is limited to 30 people. Dinner and film reservations are advisable. RSVP by calling 920.868.9999 or by email to info@greens-n-grains.com.

Greens N Grains Natural Food Store is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. The Café is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the quiet season, from 10 am – 4 pm, except on movie nights when they remain open until 9 pm.

How do GMOs affect our children, the health of our planet, and our freedom of choice?

Is it even possible to reject the food system currently in place, or have we lost something we can’t gain back?

These and other questions take GMO OMG director and concerned father Jeremy Seifert on a journey from his family’s table to Haiti, Paris, Norway, and the lobby of agra-giant Monsanto, from which he is unceremoniously ejected. Along the way we gain insight into a question that is of growing concern to citizens the world over: what’s on your plate?

“Even those who have been paying close attention to these issues are likely to glean some new insight into the various branches of the matter.” — Village Voice

“There are still many people who aren’t aware of GMOs and their very real threat to biodiversity, the environment and our health (just poll your neighbors). Yet a shift in consciousness is now taking place and Seifert has deliberately couched his documentary to assist it.” — Organic Connections

“Director Jeremy Seifert accomplishes something remarkable when he turns his camera on his family: In those moments the film feels utterly honest, rather than manipulative.” — Organic Consumers

“Filmmaker Jeremy Seifert paints this picture by embarking on a fact-finding journey that begins in Haiti and then continues on a cross-country road trip through the United States with his family, where he searchers for answers to questions about how to ensure the safety and health of his children, and the planet. (His unbelievably adorable sons, by the way, tend to steal the show with their equally unbelievably intelligent questions and observations.)” — Well + Good

Greens N Grains Cafe offers a natural and organic dinner special each evening before the Film Society screenings. Enjoy a delicious soup specialty, salad, a fresh baked roll and a cup of tea for $7.50, available from 6 pm on. The Film Society screenings at 7 pm are free, but loft area seating is limited to 30 people. Dinner and film reservations are advisable. RSVP by calling 920.868.9999 or by email to info@greens-n-grains.com.

Greens N Grains Cafe is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the quiet season, from 10 am – 4 pm, except on movie nights when they remain open until 9 pm. The Natural Food Store is open daily from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. The Website features the official film trailer as well as news and monthly discount specials.

Start planning your best ever Thanksgiving holiday feast with the finest possible main course available… an organic, pasture-raised turkey from Good Earth Farms.

These birds are lean, firm and flavorful because of the healthy and traditional farm environment in which they are raised – outdoors in fresh air with plenty of clean water and uncrowded natural pasture time that is part of their daily routine. The pasturing of turkeys and other poultry at Good Earth Farms allows their birds to live like nature intended. They scratch, eat clover and grass, chase grasshoppers and also receive a ration of Good Earth’s own organic feed mix. No commercial feed blends are ever used, so they know exactly what their birds are fed. This means that Good Earth Farms’ poultry is free from antibiotics as well.

Call GNG at 920.868.9999 to order
by Wednesday, November 19.

With Good Earth Farms 2014 Turkeys weighing in from 10 – 16 lbs. this year, you can request a small, an average (13 lbs.) or a large-sized bird at $6.29/lb. You can also order whole birds or just breast and drumsticks.

New this year! We also offer Mary’s Turkeys, from a family-run business in California. We are offering their organic, free range birds as well as their non-organic free range birds. The organic birds are fed organic grains and vegetable proteins and have plenty of open space to roam. No antibiotics (ever) and no preservatives. They are available in 2 sizes:

• 8-12 lbs. or 12-16 lbs. at $4.99/lb.

Mary’s Free Range Turkeys are given no antibiotics, hormones or preservatives, fed a vegetarian diet and allowed to free range. They are available in the following sizes:

• 10-12 lbs., 12-14 lbs., 14-16 lbs., 18-20 lbs. and 20-22 lbs. at $3.29/lb.

Frozen turkeys will be available for pickup at Greens N Grains on Saturday, November 22.

Since it is intended that their birds spend the majority of time grazing outdoors in pastures, they only raise turkeys and chickens during the warm months of the year, maturing them by late September, when they are harvested and flash-frozen for delivery throughout the holiday seasons of Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

NOTE: “When I recently asked a turkey salesman about the availability of fresh turkeys he looked at me and asked if I really thought that all of the ‘fresh turkeys’ sold at Thanksgiving could possibly be butchered at once and delivered to stores within a few days,” says Kathy Navis. “He explained that regulations actually permit these so-called ‘fresh’ birds to be held up to 6 months before delivery and still be labelled as fresh – as long as they have never been chilled below 26 degrees F. The National Turkey Federation, states that turkey doesn’t technically freeze at 32 degrees F. but at a temperature closer to 26 degrees F, so it’s really more a question of truth-in-labeling that needs to be addressed.”

More about how Good Earth Farms raises turkeys:

Turkey poults (young birds) come to the the farm in mid-summer and begin their days in a brooder. This is a warm place where temperature, drafts, light, and moisture are carefully managed to give the birds a comfortable and safe living environment. The birds remain in the brooder until they have fully feathered, about six to seven weeks, and can handle a Wisconsin summer.

Once out of the brooder, the turkeys have free range of the farm. There are no fences to limit their ranging, only their instincts that keep them close to their shelter, food and water. Predators are kept at bay by the presence of people and dogs.

The turkeys raised at Good Earth Farms are called Broad Breasted Whites. They have a nice plump shape with plenty of meat. They raise hen turkeys because you get more breast meat per bird when compared to toms of the same size. They hope you enjoy eating them as much as they enjoyed raising them.

Top off your Thanksgiving holiday planning and all of your culinary efforts by starting with the finest possible main course available… an organic, pasture raised turkey from Good Earth Farms.

The turkeys raised at Good Earth Farms are called Broad Breasted Whites. They have a nice plump shape with plenty of meat. They raise hen turkeys because you get more breast meat per bird when compared to toms of the same size. They hope you enjoy eating them as much as they enjoyed raising them.

“Our mission is to produce humanely-raised, high-quality, organic, pasture-raised turkey as well as pasture-raised chicken, grass-fed beef and pastured pork.” – Mike and Deb Hansen, Good Earth Farms

“We are Mike and Deb Hansen. Along with our three children, we own and operate an 80-acre farm named “Gifts from the Good Earth” near the central Wisconsin community of Milladore. We strongly believe in the benefits of organic production and raise our turkeys and chickens to meet and exceed the National Organic Program standards. In 1998, we achieved organic certification and are currently certified by the Midwest Organic Services Association (MOSA). Over the years, we have been innovative leaders in the field of pasture-raised chickens and turkeys, and we have grown to include pastured-raised pork and lamb as well.

“Good Earth Farms, is the culmination of years of friendship between our farm and five other organic pasture-raised farm families in Wisconsin. Because time marches on, kids get older and move away, and because life throws a curve ball at us once and a while, Good Earth Farms came into being – so that we could continue to offer our friends and customers the humanely-raised organic meats that they need.

“Our herds and flocks are grazed in an intensive rotational grazing system to ensure that they are eating only from lush, tender pasture, which is grown from soils receiving only natural amendments such as compost, green manures and minerals. Because of this, we believe that you will find our meat to be a more pure, fresh and flavorful product than most.”