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 is open during the quiet season on Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10 am – 4 pm with a great breakfast and lunch menu, snacks, raw foods, fresh fruit smoothies and full service coffee and espresso bar. Free Wifi…

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.

Three young Cambodians struggle to overcome the crushing effects of deforestation, over fishing and debt in this beautiful story of an ancient culture ravaged by globalization.

We are looking forward to the quiet(er) season in Door County, after the leaves fall in October, when we once again welcome fans of artful cinema to our biweekly film screening Dinner and a Movie Nights presented by the Green Door Film Society (GDFS). As a warm up, I will be posting regular write-ups here on my nominations for potential features, hoping to promote response from anyone with additional suggestions. Just enter your own nominations in the comments field anywhere online here or in Facebook and I will be pleased to research them.

In her directorial debut, award-winning filmmaker Kalyanee Mam intimately captures the stories of three families living in Cambodia as they strive to maintain their traditional ways of life amid rapid development and environmental degradation. Deep in the jungle, Sav Samourn struggles as large companies encroach and “progress” claims the life-giving forests. She discovers there’s little room for wild animals, ghosts — and the home she has always known.

In a fishing hamlet, Sari Math must quit school to help support his family. But as the fish catch dwindles, Sari and his family find their livelihood threatened. In a village, Khieu Mok must leave to seek work in a Phnom Penh factory to help pay her family’s debts. But city life proves no better, and Khieu struggles between her need to send money home and her duty to be with her loved ones. From Cambodia’s forests to its rivers, from its idyllic rice fields to the capital’s pulsing heart, forces of radical change are transforming the landscape of the country — and the dreams of its people.

We’ve worked so hard on this land,” says Sav Samourn. “And now they’ve come to destroy it all. Sooner or later it will all be gone.”

In A River Changes Course, her feature directorial debut, Kalyanee Mam, the cinematographer for the Academy Award–winning documentary Inside Job, explores the damage rapid development has wrought in her native Cambodia on both a human and environmental level. Rural communities, used to reaping the bounty of their mountainous jungles and lush rivers, have witnessed their forests being cleared, land becoming scarce and costly, and fishing stocks rapidly depleting. No longer able to provide for their families, and often accruing massive debt as a result, many Cambodians have been forced to leave their rural lives behind to seek employment in the industrial factories of Phnom Penh.

Following her subjects for more than two years, Mam achieves a profound intimacy with them as they confront these challenges in this stunningly shot vérité portrait. Unable to pursue an education, and forced to separate from their families, they find it hard to imagine a better future when they can barely survive in the present.

Greens N Grains Café 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 bi-weekly at 7 pm and there is no charge for membership but seating at screenings is limited to 28 people. Please, subscribe to our email newsletter if you want to be sure not to miss our roll-out this fall.

Marko and Missy (Melissa) Sosa opened the Terra Verde Coffeehouse in Chilton, WI six years ago on August 22, 2007. Two years later, they began roasting their own select beans.

After 4 years roasting, Terra Verde has established a cadre of expert coffee importers, most of whom have been selecting the best coffee for more than a hundred years.

“We continually search for the top of the top-of-the-line,” says Marko Sosa (pictured). “They send us samples of their finest selections and once we find one that we really like, we request at least 10 lbs. to start perfecting the roasting.”

Marko says anyone can roast coffee, but the secret lies in knowing how to adjust the time and temperature to reveal the maxim “sweet spot” in each specific variety.

The Terra Verde folks encourage you to experience the results of their gourmet roasting efforts at Greens N Grains Café on Friday, August 9 from 11 am to 5 pm. Marko will be featuring two hot coffees and two iced coffees for anyone to sample and enjoy, at no charge.

 RSVP and invite your friends…

Artist Shelby Keefe chooses Greens N Grains’ “Big Purple” to commemorate in a pleine air painting.

The Door County Plein Air Festival presented by Peninsula School of Art celebrates the tradition of outdoor painting with some of the finest painters from Door County and across the country. Over 40 artists are putting brush to canvas, capturing the summer light over the waters and fields of Door County, Wisconsin. Painting the landscape has long been a Door County tradition. The festival’s painters bring a fresh eye to the changing light and colors, and a variety of styles that draw from the rich traditions of plein air painting.

On Monday, July 22, 2013 we were pleasantly surprised to find Shelby Keefe working diligently, easel set up on the sidewalk outside the Cafe entrance. Shelby is an artist who is unafraid to paint in front of people and is inspired by an audience. After retiring from a career in graphic design in 2005, she operates her own art studio and exhibition space in Bay View, on the south side of Milwaukee.

Her award-winning urban landscape paintings have earned her participation in prestigious national juried shows, plein air painting competitions, and arts festivals as well as garnering commission work for a variety of corporate clients and private collectors. Her oil paintings are found in collections such as The Bradley Foundation, Acuity, Northwestern Mutual, Ozaukee Country Club; WE Energies; University School of Milwaukee; and other businesses around Milwaukee, and in private collections in Wisconsin and around the country.

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Nicole Derse CNC, functional and nutritional medicine clinician and founder of the Center for Optimal Health in Sturgeon Bay will discuss Thyroid Dysfunction: Causes and Natural remedies on Thursday, June 20 at 1 pm at Greens N’ Grains in Egg Harbor.

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

Nicole Dersé says that many people suffer from vague symptoms that they think are normal parts of life, such as fatigue, feeling sluggish in the morning, having trouble with memory, concentration, or focus. You may have dry skin or fluid retention, unusual weight gain, lack of sex drive, have cold hands and feet, thinning hair, or high cholesterol.

“Most of these symptoms aren’t severe enough to send you to the emergency room,” Nicole explains. “But they do significantly affect your quality of life. And most of us accept them as a normal part of our lives without really questioning them. If you do go to see your doctor, he or she probably shrugs it off.”

She agrees that doctors are experts in acute illness. But, she feels that doctors often overlook subtle changes in your body that affect the quality of your life. On Thursday, June 20 she invites the public to a free presentation at Greens N Grains Cafe at 1 pmto learn how thyroid problem may be affecting the entire body and what to do about it. As a nutritional medicine clinician, she will show how toxins affect the thyroid and how nutritional deficiencies and certain foods that you are eating may be preventing your thyroid from functioning optimally. Nicole will also explain the diagnostic tests that need to be run to show a complete picture of thyroid function.

Nicole Dersé, Functional Medicine Clinician at the Center for Optimal Health, located at 617 N. 8th Ave. in Sturgeon Bay, presents a free seminar on health and well being each month at Greens N Grains in Egg Harbor.