Open daily in downtown Egg Harbor, Wisconsin…

During Door County’s “quiet season” (as of Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018) we are open daily from 9 am – 5 pm and on Fridays and Saturdays open until 6 pm. The Cafe is now closed until spring.

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 8 am – 5 pm.

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…

We invite you to celebrate with us as we say, “Thanks for your loyal support!” …with a fun-filled day of live music, snacks and samples, special discount grocery pricing and spa specials.

Stock up for Thanksgiving or replenish your stash of winter vittles with a 20% discount on everything in the Greens N Grains Natural Food Store (with the exception of things already on sale)! Enjoy some tasty snacks and free sample items as you browse… Then, from 1 to 3 pm we’ll treat you to an afternoon of live music with Cathy Grier and a delicious helping of her tasty Blues guitar stylings. Currently hosting the weekly Writer’s Night every Thursday at the Tambourine Lounge, part storyteller, part blues traveler and a professional musician since 1978, Cathy brings an awesome measure of talent to the Door County music scene… and to Big Purple on Saturday, November 24 in Egg Harbor.

Under the same roof, Spa Verde will celebrate the Grand Opening of an expanded facility… with some specials of their own on products and services.

Our select Turkeys are available this year in three varieties…

There is no order deadline as these birds were all pre-ordered in August. So, it is first come, first served. If you want a specific size, you should reserve it as soon as possible. Pick up date is on Friday or Saturday, November 16 and 17.

Call GNG at 920.868.9999 to place your order!

The following three varieties are priced from $3.29/lb to $6.29/lb:

Mary’s Free-Range Turkeys

…are raised on healthful, non- GMO grains and allowed to roam in areas four times the size of areas provided by the average commercial turkey ranch. Their high-protein diet provides the optimal amount of nutrients for the turkey to grow into bigger and more flavorful turkeys than those typically found at the supermarket.
• Free-Range
• Fed a Vegetarian Diet
• Gluten-Free
• No Antibiotics EVER
• No Preservatives
• No Added Hormones

Available in 5 (approximate) sizes: 8-12 lb., 12-16 lb., 16-20 lb., 20-24 lb., and 25 lb.,
Cost $3.29/lb.

Mary’s Certified Organic, Free-Range Turkeys

…are an additional step up the ladder in humane farming practices. These Turkeys have freedom to move about and receive a premium diet void of any chemical stimulants. Certified organic feeds must be certified by the USDA, and everything that goes into them must be certified as well. Mary’s Organic Turkey feed contains:
• NO Antibiotics Ever
• Non-GMO Corn and Soybean Meal
• NO Animal By-Products
• NO Pesticide Treated Grains
• NO Grains Grown with Chemical Fertilizers
• NO Synthetic Amino Acids

Available in 2 (approximate) sizes: 8-12 lb. or 12-16 lb.,
Cost $5.29/lb.

Organic Prairie’s Organic Turkeys

Their plump, juicy turkeys are raised the old-world way with 100% organic feed and the freedom to range in the out-of-doors. What this means (for the inner Puritan in you) is that you’re assured a turkey that is free of antibiotics, synthetic hormones, and pesticides.

Available in 10-13 lb. size (approximate)
Cost $6.29/lb.

Natural plant and herb allies are here to help nourish, support and comfort your physical and emotional health.

Joanne Bauman is an ardent follower of the Wise Woman Tradition, one of the world’s oldest healing traditions practiced in most cultures worldwide. She says that tradition is what encourages her to use the common plants and healing garden “weeds” that grow locally. Plant lovers are invited to join her in a series of learning opportunities taking place at Junction Center Yoga Studio from June 6 – 10.

“I know my plant allies deeply and count on them in a variety of ways for a variety of circumstances,” Joanne explains. “The Tradition is about practical ways of empowering others to work with plants themselves, rather than be dependent on someone else for some special pill, elixir or exotic plant that grows in another country, or upon some arcane technique that implies you cannot do it for yourself.”

Preregistration is required to attend any of the following three workshops. They will take place at Junction Center Yoga Studio, 3435 N. Junction Road north of Jacksonport in the Town of Egg Harbor. The fee to attend each workshop is $30.

Sign up for all three for $75.00!

“Herbs for Sleep, Dreams and Relaxation” on Wednesday, June 6 from 5:30-7:30 pm
Having trouble sleeping? Need to relax and unwind? Enhance meditation or dreaming? This class is for you!  Many herbs offer natural, non-addictive support to release stress and tension at the end of the day to relieve insomnia, promote sound sleep, and re-establish your natural sleep cycle.  We will also explore various non-psychoactive herbs, barks and spices to enhance dreaming, open intuition. Preparations discussed include teas, herbal extracts, oils, balms, dream pillows, incense and bath soaks.

“Create Your Medicine Garden” on Sunday, June 10 from 10 am-Noon
A medicinal plant garden provides affordable, sustainable, and indispensable herbs to remedy a variety of conditions, from prevention to times of emergencies. Growing herbs to meet your needs does not have to be difficult and can be for yard or container spaces. You’ll learn about various plants to grow, how to get started, design tips, choosing plants or seeds, and how to decide what to plant based on common issues you and your family need to remedy, such as easing tummy upset, aiding sleep, calming nerves, relieving pain, reducing bruises and sprains, easing cold/flu and fevers, calming nerves, easing bites/stings, disinfecting wounds, soothing burns and more. Meeting your own family needs, as well as community needs is more important now than ever!  As Community Herb Apothecary coordinator for WI based Herbalists Without Borders International, I’ve promoted the importance of growing medicine gardens for years.

“Ligaments, Tendons, & Bones Oh My! The Musculoskeletal System & Pain” on Sunday June 10 from 1:30 to 3:30 pm
This class will discuss musculoskeletal system supports, as well as conditions that effect muscles, bones and associated structures. Learn herbs/plant allies to assist in healing musculoskeletal issues, injury and recovery. Herbalist Joanne Bauman draws on both her personal and professional experience with chronic pain and pain management.  Whatever the cause of pain– joint, muscle, nerve, etc. –you can nourish your body with simple easily created herbal brewed infusions, tinctures, oils, liniments, poultices, and bath soaks to ease stiffness, inflammation and improve function and performance.

Joanne Bauman is a Kansas native herbalist, a teacher, writer, herb grower and medicine-maker. Her easy-going teaching style makes learning and using plant-based healing accessible to everyone. She is a frequent presenter at The Mother Earth News Fair, Midwest Women’s Herbal conference and Joanne blogs and records podcasts for Mother Earth News Herbal Living. You can find out much more about Joanne at PrairieMagicHerbals.com or at “Prairie Magic Herbals” on Facebook.

You may reserve a spot by texting or calling 920.823.2763 or send an email to Kathy@JunctionCenterYoga.com.

Deaushia Spiller-Smith is passionate about ecology and environmental science.

Her nursing studies and research in the fields of ultrasound and radiation science led her to explore methods of creating toxic free homes. With spring cleaning about to roll forth as we shake off the bonds of winter, De (as she likes to be called) would like to share her discoveries on the use of natural cleaning methods and materials with the public.

On Saturday, April 28 from 3 – 4:30 pm, De will present a workshop on “Spring Cleaning with Essential Oils” at Greens N Grains Natural Food Store in Egg Harbor. For a $5 donation you will learn all about toxic-free cleaning products and how to make your own with certain essential oils and herb blends for cleaning. De will also explain how to choose all-natural commercial cleaning products like laundry detergent, dish soap and personal care products like body soaps, shampoo, and hair conditioner. She will bring lots of info-sheets to share.

Greens N Grains Natural Food Store is open daily from 9 am – 5 pm and on Fridays and Saturdays open until 6 pm. The Cafe is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 9 am – 4 pm; located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42. Our Website features news and monthly discount specials online.

Meet for a screening Q&A with Tim and Holly Erskine, the multi-talented Ellison Bay couple that created the first sci-fi epic adventure film shot entirely in Door County, featuring a talented cast of local actors at the next Greens N Grains Dinner and a movie Night, March 8.

When a lone space traveler named Koyper (Peter Ciesla) lands his rocket ship in Newport State Park, only to be witnessed by three Door County locals out on a sunset meditation walk, a life-saving and heartwarming adventure begins with The Emissary. Since its release in 2015, the film has been loved by audiences near and far, perhaps because of its underlying philosophy of mindfulness.

“You live in a magical place on a magical world – never forget that,” Koyper explains to the Earthlings. “Being mindful of your moments is the greatest gift you can give yourself.”

The Emissary is described as a comical, science fiction adventure but it’s also a love story, a love of science, astronomy and each other shared by Tim and Holly. The film they created reveals the secret of their success, one you will surely take home with you when you learn to identify the three legs on the chair of happiness.

The natural born actors in The Emissary include many familiar faces: Tim and Holly Erskine, Kay Allmand, Peter Ciesla, Edward DiMaio, Paul Erskine, Jess Holland, Joel Kersebet, Mark Moede, Patrick Palmer, and John Wilson.

After the screening, Tim and Holly may speak about their passion for the International Dark Sky Association, a campaign to reduce light pollution, especially relevant to Door County. Holly, an amateur astronomer, even discovered an asteroid and named it “Tim Erskine” as a wedding present. Tim speculates that it will threaten and possibly destroy the Earth in the year 2816 A.D. without human intervention.

Join them on Thursday March 8 when Greens N Grains Café in Egg Harbor offers a natural and organic dinner special each evening before the screening. Enjoy a delicious soup specialty, a salad, bread and a cup of tea for $9.50, available from 6 pm on. Dinner and a Movie Night screenings take place at 7 pm and there is no charge to attend, but seating is limited to 20 people with preference given to dinner guests.

Reservations are requested. RSVP at 920.868.9999 or info@greens-n-grains.com.

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants,” says author and journalist Michael Pollan.

In Defense of Food

With that seven-word maxim, he distills a career’s worth of reporting into a prescription for reversing the damage being done to people’s health by today’s industrially driven Western diet. In Defense of Food debunks the daily media barrage of conflicting claims about nutrition. You can see and discuss the film at Greens N Grains Café at 7 pm on Thursday, February 15.

Traveling the globe and exploring the supermarket aisles to illustrate the principles of his bestselling “eater’s manifesto,” Pollan offers a clear answer to one of the most confounding and urgent questions of our time: What should I eat to be healthy?

Michael Pollan is the author of five New York Times Best Sellers: The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, The Botany of Desire (which was also adapted for PBS in 2009), In Defense of Food, Food Rules and, most recently, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation. In 2010, he was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time Magazine.

Greens N Grains Café in Egg Harbor offers a natural and organic dinner special each evening before the screening. Enjoy a delicious soup specialty, a salad, bread and a cup of tea for $9.50, available from 6 pm on. Dinner and a Movie Night screenings take place at 7 pm and there is no charge to attend, but seating is limited to 20 people and those attending dinner have reserved seating. Reservations are required. RSVP at 920.868.9999 or info@greens-n-grains.com. For more information visit Greens-N-Grains.com.

Escarpment envisions the natural history of Eastern Wisconsin as a documentary film, one that explains the geological mysteries of the Niagara Escarpment traversing the Great Lakes.

Roger Kuhns

Local, or once-upon-a-time Door County local, Roger Kuhns is a geographical expert and world traveler who presents entertaining monologues that couple adventure with his geographical knowledge. His latest award-winning work is screening on Thursday, January 25 at 7 pm at Greens N Grains in Egg Harbor.

Featured most recently at the Great Lakes Film Festival in Erie, Pennsylvania, Escarpment was awarded honors at the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Film Festival, selected by the Miami Independent Film Festival and was a semifinalist at the Cine Festival in Los Angeles earlier this year.

The film was shot on location along the entire length of the Niagara Escarpment, with a strong emphasis on Door County. It’s a fast-paced, fun voyage through billions of years of Great Lakes natural history starting from the dolomitic rock from which it formed. Have you ever wondered whether dinosaurs ever walked in Door County before glaciers erased their tracks? Escarpment follows the path of those glaciers, and catalogues many other major events in our geologic journey.

Locations around the world are featured over time to show the changes taking place in order to guide us to become better stewards of the Earth. In the style of the films produced for the Discovery Channel or National Geographic, Roger Kuhns geologist and sustainologist has  produced an entertaining film for all ages based upon his career in geology, working and loving the ecology of the Niagara Escarpment.

Greens N Grains Café in Egg Harbor offers a natural and organic dinner special each evening before the screening. Enjoy a delicious soup specialty, a salad, bread and a cup of tea for $9.50, available from 6 pm on. Dinner and a Movie Night screenings take place at 7 pm and there is no charge to attend, but seating is limited to 20 people and those attending dinner have first dibs on seats. Reservations are required. Reservations are requested. RSVP at 920.868.9999 or info@greens-n-grains.com. For more information visit Greens-N-Grains.com.

Natural plant and herb allies are here to help nourish, support and comfort your physical and emotional health. Here’s a chance to learn how…

“Life sometimes seems to throw a lot at us,” says herbalist and wisewoman
Joanne Bauman. “Whether it’s only temporary or ongoing, too many stressors can eventually overwhelm a person and we begin to react with anxiety, nervousness, depression and grief.”

Join Joanne at Junction Center Yoga Studio on Tuesday, October 3 from Noon to 2 pm to explore a collection of Mother Nature’s own safe and natural herbal options that will help to calm anxiety, soothe frazzled nerves, promote better sleep patterns, ease depression, ease heartache and nourish your body’s overall resiliency.

Joanne Bauman is a Kansas native herbalist, a teacher, writer, herb grower and medicine-maker. Her easy going teaching style makes learning and using plant-based healing accessible to everyone. She is a frequent presenter at The Mother Earth News Fair, Midwest Women’s Herbal and other natural healing conferences.

Joanne is an ardent follower of the Wise Woman Tradition, one of the world’s oldest healing traditions practiced in most cultures worldwide. The tradition is what she says encourages her to use the common plants and healing garden weeds that grow locally.

“I know my plant allies deeply and count on them in a variety of ways for a variety of circumstances,” she explains. “The Tradition is about practical ways of empowering others to work with plants themselves, rather than be dependent on someone else for some special pill, elixir or exotic plant that grows in another country, or upon some arcane expert technique that implies you cannot do it for yourself.”

Joanne blogs and also produces podcasts for Mother Earth News Herbal Living. She serves as Community Herbal Apothecary Project Coordinator for Herbalists Without Borders and is their Kansas Chapter Coordinator. You can find out much more about her at PrairieMagicHerbals.com.

Preregistration is required to attend. The event takes place at Junction Center Yoga Studio, 3435 N. Junction Road north of Jacksonport in the Town of Egg Harbor. The fee to attend Joanne’s workshop is $30 and will include a box lunch from the Greens N Grains cafe featuring a vegetarian wrap, chips and a cookie. You may reserve a spot by texting or calling 920.823.2763 or send an email to Kathy@JunctionCenterYoga.com.

We are excited to be a supporting sponsor of the 2017 Sustainability Fair taking place at Crossroads at Big Creek in Sturgeon Bay on Saturday, September 23 from 10am to 4pm.

Come celebrate Earth Day at Greens N Grains with live music, specials in the Cafe and some great deals on products…

We are looking forward to a special appearance by singer/songwriter Cathy Grier, aka “NYC Subway Girl” on Earth Day, April 22 from 1-4 pm here at Big Purple (the GNG complex) outside, weather permitting. Cathy’s diverse and eclectic career highlights include: opening for Laura Nyro and Joan Armatrading, touring Germany with a French girl band, an MTV basement tape award, writing a #1 French dance hit “Misery” for artist Indra, recording CD ‘Comin’ Back To Me’ at Magic Shop NYC, performing at Avery Fischer Hall, BAM and being featured on CBS Sunday Morning. Somehow, she found her way to Door County and has settled in Sturgeon Bay!

On Earth Day weekend, Saturday and Sunday, April 22 – 23, Greens N Grains will give out FREE Earth Days reusable bags for any purchase over $75 and the first 50 customers will receive a free packet of Seed Savers Lettuce seeds! We will also have a special deal on the book – The Better World Shopping Guide – 2nd Edition: Every Dollar Makes a Difference regularly $11.95 special for Earth Day $8.00!

Save on all Yogi Teas -2/$6, Seventh Generation and Ecos laundry detergents, Dr. Bronner’s 32 oz. soaps for only $12.49. Enjoy samples from our Greens N Grains Cafe – Green Smoothies and amazing Vegan desserts! plus lots of samples.

The Origins of Earth Day!

Gaylord Nelson (1916 – 2005)

The idea for a national day to focus on the environment came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. Inspired by the student anti-war movement, he realized that if he could infuse that energy with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution, it would force environmental protection onto the national political agenda. Senator Nelson announced the idea for a “national teach-in on the environment” to the national media; persuaded Pete McCloskey, a conservation-minded Republican Congressman, to serve as his co-chair; and recruited Denis Hayes from Harvard as national coordinator/

On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast rallies. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, freeways, the loss of wilderness, and the extinction of wildlife suddenly realized they shared common values.

Earth Day 1970 achieved a rare political alignment, enlisting support from Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, city slickers and farmers, tycoons and labor leaders. By the end of that year, the first Earth Day had led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts.