Greens N Grains Natural Foods Market & Café

Open daily in downtown Egg Harbor, Wisconsin…

during Door County’s ”quiet season” (November 1 – April 30) from 10 am – 5 pm.

and in the busier season (from May 1 – October 31) from 9 am until 6 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… and will be open again in Spring!

The diet industry is a multi-billion dollar operation in America.

Two-thirds of women and one-third of men are on some sort of diet. But the worst part is that 85% of those people who begin with the best of intentions and even have some success at losing weight, only find themselves slipping back over time, gaining the weight back and then some.

Why are Americans really good at losing weight but terrible at keeping it off? Because diets simply don’t work. On Thursday, March 13 at 1 pm, Nicole Dersé, CNC invites you to learn the secrets of successful weight loss, discover the key fat-burning foods and learn how to detoxify your body for increased metabolism and optimal health in her complimentary presentation.

Each month Nicole visits Greens N Grains in Egg Harbor to share valuable, healthy nutrition-based approaches to achieving your potential in well being.

The journey to good health can sometimes feel too overwhelming to start. As a complement to Nicole’s afternoon workshop, Greens N Grains Dinner and a Movie will present a documentary film entitled, Food Matters on Thursday evening. It is both entertaining and a solution-oriented springboard for taking your first step toward feeling good. Food Matters does not involve hours of lecturing scientists or extremist New Age diet ideas. It’s just eighty minutes of powerful common-sense, practical solutions to our current health crisis.

“It is impossible to pretend that our current healthcare problems don’t exist,” says Kathy Navis, owner of Greens N Grains and collaborator and Nicole Dersé. “What we have come to realize is that we may never be able to completely change the way people eat, but we can do our very best to help people make choices that serve their bodies and our planet.”

In what promises to be the most contentious idea put forward, filmmakers James Colqhuoun and Laurentine ten Bosch present a number of world leaders in nutrition and natural healing who claim that not only are we harming our bodies with improper nutrition, but with the right kind of foods, supplements and detoxification we can treat chronic illnesses as fatal as terminally diagnosed cancer.

Food Matters delivers the message that only you are capable of transcending the madness of our current ‘sickcare industry’ to reclaim the vibrant health that is rightfully yours.

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 Website features the official film trailer, news and monthly discount specials online at Greens-N-Grains.com.

Over the past 15 years, numerous colonies of bees have been decimated throughout the world, but the causes of this disaster remain unknown.

Markus Imhoof

Honey bees have become chain workers, a machine expected to function upon the simple push of a button. In the struggle between bees and the neo-liberal market economy, bee brokers push beekeepers, who respond by pushing bees, to further increase their performance.

“In that sense, and assuming the risk of sounding presumptuous,” says film director Markus Imhoof, “I could almost say that More Than Honey is a bit like Chaplin’s Modern Times – as told by bees.”

His film examines the crisis at hand by gathering evidence, interviewing and reporting on the beekeepers and their daily work. You can see this important documentary film in Egg Harbor on Thursday, February 27 at Greens N Grains Deli’s next Dinner and a Movie screening.

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 online at Greens-N-Grains.com.

Learn how to identify what it is that triggers chronic arthritis pain, the main cause of disability among people over fifty-five years of age at the next Greens N Grains seminar presented as a public service by Nicole Dersé, CNC Functional Medicine Clinician & Certified Nutritionist.

The word arthritis comes from the Greek arthron meaning “joint” and the Latin itis meaning “inflammation.” One of the most common chronic health problems in the nation, arthritis is second only to heart disease as a cause of work disability. There are certain foods that irritate the immune system. Learning to avoid these inflammatory foods will reduce arthritis pain. Your diet, lifestyle and  some medications may be contributing to your pain.

On Thursday, January 23 at 1 pm, Nicole Dersé will lead a discussion of the many ways to reduce arthritis pain at Greens N Grains in Egg Harbor. She will also speak about supplements, herbs and botanicals that may be used to reduce inflammation and start rebuilding the joints. You will learn about available nutritional testing methods that assess joint health in order to discover the underlying causes of inflammation and pain.

Greens N Grains Natural Food Store presents free seminars with Nicole Dersé each month to promote a greater understanding of the effects of nutrition on health and wellness. They are open daily in the winter months from 10 am – 5 pm, located in downtown Egg Harbor at 7821 Hwy 42.

For more information or advanced questions, please call Nicole at the Center for Optimal Health located in the Fairfield Building at 3^rd Avenue and Michigan Street Suite #202 in Sturgeon Bay by phone 920.743.4221 or send email tonicole@dcoptimalhealth.net.

When Billy Broke His Head …and Other Tales of Wonder is an entertaining, irreverent road movie about disability, civil rights, and the search for intelligent life after brain damage.

“This ain’t exactly your inspirational cripple story.”  – Billy Golfus

Winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Freedom of Expression Award in 1995, it has been out of print and unavailable for several years. Recently, Kartemquin Films has brought it back to distribution and the Green Door Film Society at Greens N Grains acquired a copy for screening on Thursday, January 23.

“This ain’t your basic inspirational cripple story,” says Billy Golfus, narrator and writer of this pithy and moving documentary.

Following a traffic-accident, award-winning radio host and entertainer Billy Golfus woke from a coma to find himself hospitalized with a massive head-injury, a hemiplegic and totally dependent on others for his survival. The film that resulted is a first-person narrative that tells the story of his personal struggle to make a new life for himself as he discovers pervasive discrimination and the bureaucracy of “helping systems.”

Accompanied by filmmaker David E. Simpson, Billy Golfus travels the USA encountering and engaging with disabled people of all stripes and witnessing the strength and anger that has forged a civil rights movement for disabled Americans. Laced with humor and biting wit, When Billy Broke His Head… is a widely acclaimed, groundbreaking, underground classic, documentary film about our nation’s disability culture – a no holds barred, first-person accounting that refuses to tell the “inspirational” stories we have come to expect from films about the 43 million people with disabilities living in America.

When Billy Broke His Head… And other Tales of Wonder, was funded by the Independent Television Service (ITVS) with funds provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The Green Door Film Society thanks Chicago’s Kartemquin Films for permitting us to screen this film for a small audience of film lovers in Door County.

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.

A keystone species is one which is central to the functioning of the ecosystem as a whole.

They are the ones that many other animals simply cannot do without. The entire ecosystem would unravel without them. In British Colombia, the Pacific Salmon are that keystone species. But, the number of these fish are steadily decreasing, dying mysteriously before they get a chance to lay their eggs… This feature-length documentary asks, why?

Since 2009, corporate fish farms, placed along the wild salmon runways have been infecting the keystone species with ISA virus, a disease that’s creating ecological havoc. And the Canadian government is failing to act.

It gets worse here in the USA…

Any day now, the first genetically modified animal ever to enter our food supply, AquaBounty salmon, could be approved by the Food and Drug Administration. This fish hasn’t been proven safe for humans. But the FDA may approve it based on a limited, flawed, and inadequate study — despite the fact that the same study identified elevated allergy-causing potential, and elevated levels of the IGF-1 growth hormone, which is linked to colon, prostate and breast cancers.

That’s why we’re encouraging readers to join Senator Jeff Merkley in a last-ditch effort to demand the FDA reject approval of GMO salmon.

AquaBounty’s frankenfish is an Atlantic salmon, spliced with genes from an eel pout and growth hormone from a Chinook salmon. The result is a salmon that produces growth hormone year-round and grows twice as fast.

Were GMO salmon to escape its farms into the wild, the fish would pose a serious risk to wild salmon populations. The GMO salmon consume five times more food than wild salmon, and are more aggressive. Introducing these traits into the wild population would be serious – and irreversible.

Separate from any risks, the GMO salmon are less healthy to eat – producing less of the beneficial omega-3 fatty acids than non-GMO salmon – and a less efficient food source – requiring 1.5 to 8 kilograms of wild fish to produce one kilogram of farmed salmon.

Worse still, without GMO labeling, these frankenfish would be totally unlabeled in stores, and indistinguishable from other farmed salmon, so consumers will have no way of making an informed choice.

Tell the FDA: Don’t approve GMO salmon.

When bankrupt GM shuts down the community’s century-old plant, forcing workers to leave their families in search of decent jobs, local business leaders seize the moment to woo new companies with the promise of lower wages, reduced regulation and tax breaks.

“As Goes Janesville, so goes the rest of the Nation,” is the premise upon which documentary filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein built his award-winning film. He follows the establishment of a powerful alliance that community business leaders make with newly-elected Republican governor Scott Walker that begins with an “open for business” manifesto but soon morphs into a “divide and conquer,” anti-union crusade.  The results rip apart the state, triggering a historic recall election and thrust Wisconsin’s civil war onto front pages worldwide. The film follows three years in the lives of laid-off workers struggling to survive, business leaders trying to reinvent their local economy, and a state senator caught in the middle, trying to negotiate a peace for his warring state while protecting workers’ rights.

It’s the next in a biweekly series of Green Door Film Society screenings at Egg Harbor’s Greens N Grains Natural Foods Café shown at 7 pm in the 2^nd floor loft on Thursday, December 5.

As Goes Janesville is a tale of our time that the New York Times calls a “political thriller” and the Baltimore Sun’s TV critic David Zurawik heralds as “the best documentary about what’s happening to the middle class in America today.” Amid a bevy of movies and news reporting, it’s hard to find a more in-depth, enduring, human and even-handed treatment of our country’s continuing economic crisis and the political polarization that perpetuates it.

Greens N Grains Café 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 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 online at Greens-N-Grains.com.

Noted Psychic Advisor Diana Blagdon, will host a screening discussion on the phenomenon of Walk-Ins following the film.

Wikipedia says a walk-in is, “a new age concept of a person whose original soul has departed his or her body and has been replaced with a new soul, either temporarily or permanently.” Some people believe that the concept is ageless. One of them is metaphysical author Scott Blum who wrote and directed the feature film Walk-In.

Scott Blum

His independent dark comedy is about an ailing engineer named Don Newport who meets an angel named Robert while facing his impending death. Robert ultimately inhabits Don’s previous body while each of them grapples with their new-found incarnations.

The film is inspired by Blum’s bestselling book Summer’s Path. Door County psychic, Diana Blagdon will lead a “spirited” discussion following the film.

Greens N Grains 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 for membership but seating at screenings 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 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.

Rather than simply papering over symptoms with medications, Nicole Derse CNC will provide a set of step-by-step dietary and lifestyle changes that will reverse insulin resistance and re-balance your biology.

(l to r) Gayle Mason, APNP and Nicole Derse, CNC

“By following this plan,” Nicole says, “Your weight will drop off and you will automatically regain your health. The Blood Sugar Solution is about far more than weight loss; it’s about taking back your health and your life. People who follow this type of dietary and lifestyle change not only lose weight but reduce their systolic blood pressure, their fatigue evaporates and they have more energy than they have felt in years. Their joint and muscle pain vanishes, their mood and sleep improves, their brain fog is eliminated and a deep sense of well-being sets in.”

“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.”

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, Nov. 20.

With Turkeys weighing in from 10 – 16 lbs. this year, you can request a small, an average (13 lbs.) or a large-sized bird at $5.69/lb. You can also order whole birds or just breast and drumsticks. Frozen turkeys will be available for pickup at Greens N Grains on Saturday, November 23.

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.