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For this April 24, 2025,
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We had the ganging with us right now,
Stephen and Katrina and her from family natural foods.
How y'all doing?
How's it going?
Great.
Good, good.
Have a good year.
I know that there's so much going on over there,
and you have some great presentations coming up,
including one that I just found out about late last night,
actually, you got coming up in June,
but before we get to that,
let's talk about this great one you got coming up right in May.
Yeah, thank you.
So we have talked about it a little bit,
and then I was on the morning show with you,
and we highlighted it, but it's gonna be on May 6th.
It's a Tuesday, it's 5.15,
and we're gonna have our friend Rubina in,
and she's gonna talk about spring cleaning, low waste.
We're gonna talk about all the things, right?
So on Earth Day, when I was there.
Yeah, it's like refillable and reusable cleaning supplies,
and the great benefit to that is you save money.
These are more natural than most cleaning supplies,
so they're better for your health.
They work great, and they also have lots of waste.
You know, I fill up your recycling bin like me every weekend.
I always seem to have a lot more recycling than I do garbage.
I guess it's a good thing, but also I'm like,
why do I even have that much recycling bin?
Yeah, how can I reuse this thing?
Let's try to solve this.
So you can take that, like, let's say glass peanut butter jar
that you just used, and you're gonna put it
in your recycling container.
Wash it really well.
You can bring that to family natural foods.
We essentially tear, we'll explain the whole process,
but we tear that item, and then you can fill it up with dirt.
Tear the item means that we subtract the weight of the jar.
Thank you, thank you for that.
I thought I'd explain it just in person,
but, you know, I like that it's maybe a little more safe.
Just come in and get Trinola show you.
I knew what it was, but for the audience is saying,
no, no, I did not know what it was.
Just in case we were...
You know, you bring that container in,
and then you can refill it with your hand soap or whatnot.
But maybe you don't want to use that whole container of yours.
We have new, wonderful glass jars that you can buy once,
and then reuse over and over again,
some have like the spout,
so it can be for a great for a hand soap.
If you're doing like an all-purpose wash,
you have like a spray container, again,
buy it once, refill it,
very similar to like our oils and vinegars that we have.
You know, you buy it once, and it's that concept.
If we can all start thinking that way,
like James and I were talking about on Tuesday,
we can just make this world a cleaner place.
We don't need to consume as much stuff.
So this is a way to consume less.
And so this presentation,
it's gonna talk about that, of course,
about the products,
but just how we can really think a bit more
about what our impact is and what we're doing
and how we can change that.
So it is on May 6th, that's a Tuesday,
and it's at 5.15, it's gonna be a good presentation.
Yeah, so we can all grab something from you.
We all have to clean our houses, right?
So make it a little more fun.
Somebody asked clean our houses.
So yeah, why not do it cleaner, you know,
with less chemicals, do it cheaper,
and do it with less waste?
And maybe you want a little scent in there,
because all of ours are unscented.
So if people that have sensitive skin,
they're great because it's unscented,
but we have wonderful essential oils
that you can add into that, and that's also fun.
Yeah, I'm sure that's something we'll learn about
on that Tuesday.
Yeah.
Yeah, kind of how to customize it yourself
and do it in a natural way as well.
Speaking of that word, custom.
One thing that I hadn't thought about the other day
when you were custom with that cat,
and I really appreciate that.
It was fun having it in the show.
One of the things I hadn't thought about is
how much we are more and more enjoying unique items,
and unique things in our homes.
We've seen a rise of this really going back to the rise
of Etsy, or even when Milkweed Market was here in town,
or a cultural center with some of the local items
from artists they sell, more and more people want this.
Here's a great opportunity to have something like that,
unique in your home.
Not everybody has this soap dispenser
that you help create or something.
Could there's a great gift to really kickstart people?
And I don't know, there's a day, a couple days ago,
what do they call it, Earth Day?
Oh, yeah, Earth Day, the Earth Day, yeah.
Yeah, that would be a day and a topic
to really focus on this and bring it around,
maybe just surprise people with a gift.
But Earth Day can be everyday.
I mean, I kind of appreciate the Earth,
and luckily here in Wisconsin Rapids,
we have some of the most beautiful Earth, in my opinion.
There's so much beautiful nature.
So I mean, it's easy to appreciate Earth Day every day here
in Wisconsin.
Nature makes it easy on us around here.
Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, but if I lived in one of those big cities,
I would say, well, these engineers and architects
really built a beautiful place here.
Yeah, though.
A different appreciation.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's great, yep, yep.
Yeah, and then we want to highlight another presentation
that we're really excited about.
This is fine, we just got information on it.
It just started getting the word out,
but we are excited to have Terry Lemurron
with Terry Natural.
Back at Family Natural Foods for it,
Steven, is this the fourth year?
I think it's the fourth.
Yeah, there was a year that he wasn't there,
but I feel extremely grateful to say that he's been
with us for four years, and he wants to come back.
He's excited to come back, like it's something
he looks forward to.
And again, we don't know each year, will he won't he?
But we ask the question, and we're so,
like we feel so honored and blessed that he's,
he really thinks of this as like a, you know,
part of his community, and he believes in, you know,
the family run businesses that are getting the information out.
And he has so much knowledge.
This man is so good.
And he's so great.
Like I said, he's like a very busy person.
He's traveling all over the world, you know,
he's frequently when I'm like, oh, did you guys,
because we were trying to plan this for months.
It literally, like we talked about it first in November,
and it didn't get confirmed until last week.
So this takes a long time, because there'll be like,
oh, we'll check in with Terry, but he's on,
he's in Europe right now, or he's in India,
looking at the Tumeric Harvest, or, you know,
you name it, he's kind of all over the place.
And like a Trinus, I try to never take it for granted.
You know, every time that he's coming, I'm like,
this is great.
I don't know if it's gonna work in his schedule.
I don't know if he's in retire next year.
You know, I don't know.
So like, I always tell people like, if you're like,
oh, maybe I'll go next year, don't do that.
Just come, you know.
And tell everybody that it's a free event.
We're not charging anything.
And the knowledge that he provides is something
that's like, how many years of experience?
I don't know, like 50 plus years.
Yeah, 50 plus years of experience.
You really can't get that from hardly anybody else,
and to have that right in your community is really great.
Well, one of the piggyback off that, Stephen,
because with this guest in particular,
and look, especially the last handful of presentations,
Brian, a true grace, Dr. Tracy Advital Planet,
amazing individuals, great speakers,
with tons of great knowledge.
And then there's Terry, who is just one of the founders
of so much of this industry,
and so much of what's going on here.
And it's interesting the presentation
he's focusing on, optimal wellness for longevity.
Well, he's a great one to be running that,
considering how long he's been doing this.
And he certainly seems to know something about longevity.
And he's such a good speaker.
I just want to echo the things that you guys were saying
about him coming to this community.
You can tell what it means to him.
How many CEOs, how many people do you
know in charge of companies that are doing something like this?
I think we can count on one hand.
I almost guarantee.
And to him to do this, it just shows the above and beyond
the care that he has, not only for this industry,
but for this community.
Yeah, yeah, it's a real honor to have him.
So if you're listening to the podcast,
you can push pause, right?
Yes.
That's something we can do.
Yep.
Go get your pen and your paper, your calendar,
or just pick up your phone if you keep it on your phone.
Like a lot of folks do with their calendar,
and put this down.
It's going to be on June 25th at 5.15 PM.
And there's a lot of details to come.
We'll be here a number of times still.
We want to get this on people's calendar.
It's, again, it's June 25th.
It's going to be a Wednesday at 5.15 PM.
So get on your calendar and tell your neighbors.
There's usually somebody you know who could benefit
from getting some really genuine health advice
from somebody who's such an expert as Terry.
Head on over to Facebook and register sign up
for let me know the comment.
That's your friends, yeah.
Speaking with Stephen and Katrina Hinder
from Family Natural Foods, and we're
going to put a little bit of focus on some of the,
some of our friends in the spring and summer
that join us, that we don't necessarily
deal with the rest of the time of the year.
We're using a little thing.
Is that what we're talking about?
So just a reminder that we have tick alerts out there, right?
It's our dogs.
I found a list two on myself.
I don't know how many of my dogs brought it.
Stephen's a tick alert this year.
Yeah, it's even a couple of weeks ago.
Might have been a month ago now.
There was one crawling on my sleeve.
I was doing some yard work.
And then just a couple of days ago,
I saw another one crawling on my sleeve.
I don't think it was the same one.
Hopefully not.
I should put a little like more.
I love the idea of it being the same one.
That's hilarious.
It's like my pet.
Yeah, the worst pet ever.
The worst pet.
I have to feed him with my blood.
Nobody likes ticks.
And your dogs don't like them.
Your cats don't like them.
A few men's, your kids.
Yes, it's really not good for you.
Something I want to remind people about with ticks
is there's this great thing that we have at the store
where you can take the ticks that you take off
or you pull off your body or your pet's body.
And instead of questioning,
hey, does this tick have Lyme disease?
Or a week or two later, if you start to feel ill
or you have a bull's eye on your body,
you don't have to say like,
oh, is that tick that bit me?
That tick have Lyme disease?
Take the guessing out of it.
Yeah, you can take the guessing out of it.
You can keep that tick sealed up in a jar
or a ziplock bag, whatever you want to do.
But keep it in one piece or multiple pieces
is fine too, I suppose.
And you can come to family atrial foods,
you can buy a prepaid test.
And what this does is you can send your tick remains in.
And if they come off of just one person or one animal,
you can send in 10 ticks, you can send in 20 ticks.
It doesn't matter, you can send in one.
And then the lab will test these ticks one or many of them
to tell you if there's any Lyme disease present
in any of the ticks.
And then you can find,
then you can say, hey, that bulls are rash,
that probably are Lyme disease.
Let's call it the doctor, let's go over the doctor
and probably start on some antibiotics.
I don't mess around with Lyme disease as little as I,
I definitely don't like antibiotics,
but I like Lyme disease even less.
So, we have some natural stuff too that would be helpful,
but I would still call your doctor up.
But I think it's always important to remember
that there's these tests at family natural foods.
They're not expensive, whether it be 25.
The 25 I think is a total.
Something like that, Katrina's used them, I think.
Yep, they're really easy to use.
They're great.
It's kind of nice to have one at home
because if it happens, you can do it.
But just, I'm just gonna do like a public awareness
announcement, I think that's very important.
Often we get a tick, right?
We don't want it, we don't like it,
we either flick it or we kill it.
But if you get a tick, that bites.
My suggestion would be to take that tick,
if you can, put it like in a jar or a plastic bag
that Steven's talking about, put it in the freezer,
something like that, because whether you're gonna
call it into this company or send it in,
that's one thing, or if you never notice a bull's eye
and you're like, okay, I'm just gonna keep it around,
then you have it.
A lot of people get rid of them and then they don't know.
They don't know if they have it.
Yeah, and it's interesting,
because one time I took a tick off me
and I had symptoms that seemed like Lyme disease.
I went to the doctor, kind of a walk-in clinic situation.
And I brought the tick with me and I was like,
well, maybe they want to test this tick.
And she was kind of like, you can throw that away.
She was just going off symptoms.
She was like, you know, and so I was like,
okay, how do they know?
They didn't do a blood test.
So I think the protocol, because Lyme disease
is so prevalent around here, is that they kind of just
write antibiotics, if they have any suspicion
that you might have Lyme disease, which I think is fine.
But I might want to kind of know.
Also, you can send these ticks, this test in,
and they can test for other things.
I think there might be a little.
And there might be a little added cost
if you want to have them test for other things.
I'd have to look at the paperwork again,
but it could be worth it, you know,
just because there might be a little different protocol.
Most of these tick-borne illnesses,
antibiotics treat all of them.
And then the doctors are going to tell you that too.
But, you know, maybe the protocol is a little different.
And if you know, if you go in and you take your test results
from, you know, this test, and you said,
hey, I have this bullseye, having symptoms,
your doctors may be like, oh, okay,
well, we know what this illness is.
Now we can treat it really.
And specific to that kind of strain.
And I think about like at family natural foods,
we really like to get to the root of the cause.
So that tick is literally the root of the cause.
So keeping that around to know exactly what's in it,
I think it's beneficial.
So be on the lookout for those ticks.
But we also have lovely like bug sprays
for mosquitoes.
Yeah, try to not get them on you.
As well as like we have bug sprays for mosquitoes,
but also that covers ticks as well.
That are natural.
There's no chemicals in it.
Very effective, too.
I've used them for years.
Yeah, Stephens even used them when a friend of his
was using Deat.
And he was using that.
And his friend had like, he had like ticks and mosquitoes
on him and Stephens like, I'm actually doing okay.
He just had to reapply it a little bit more.
The natural ones you do have to reapply a little bit more
often, but like my friend had more ticks on them than I did.
And so he's working.
And we have stuff for pets too, if you have a dog.
We have to be careful, which natural or not natural sprays
you can use on your pets.
But there's ones we have that are specifically designed
for dogs.
And then we also have some sunscreens.
Yeah, really clean sunscreens that you feel safe.
Get into that season.
Put on your kids, your babies.
You know, you're going to need them all season.
So you might as well buy them now.
There's no reason to say, oh, wait for another month or two.
Just if you're coming in for stuff, just get what you're
needin' and you can test a lot of these out.
At our store, you can smell them.
The sunscreens you can put on your skin.
You can see how they rub in.
They've gotten really good.
These natural ones, rubbing in.
And the not natural ones aren't so good.
There's like chemicals.
And your skin is your largest organ.
So it absorbs chemicals.
And some of these chemicals are just like environmental working
group, you know, evaluate some of these.
And they're just like, they're almost, in some cases,
more toxic than getting sunburned, you know, which
is also not great for you.
But yeah, these natural sunscreens.
And then the only thing I always like to tell people
is that the sunscreen scale, the SPF scale
that we're all familiar with, it isn't linear.
So an SPF 15 and SPF 30.
30 isn't blocking twice as much sun as an SPF 15.
It's only like maybe three to five percent better.
I'd have to look at the exact numbers,
but it's not a linear scale.
So when you, that's the thing with these chemical sun blocks.
They can technically block more UV than some of the natural ones.
So you'll see like an SPF like 70 or some big number, right?
But, and so a lot of people think like, oh,
I have to do as much as I can.
So I have to get as high of a number.
Really an SPF 15 or SPF 30, SPF 40.
That's more than a sufficient.
You're only gaining one or two or three percent going
above that SPF 30.
So don't get, you know, it's kind of a marketing thing.
But don't get, you know, kind of caught up in marketing.
And in these numbers, just know that, you know,
if you want to block the sun 15 to 30 to, you know, 40,
I suppose is going to be more than sufficient for what you need.
This is something that later in life I've come to.
Like I'm really late in life.
Like we're talking the last year or so,
that I've actually even looked at sunscreens before.
I, so for the majority of my life,
somebody brings up sunscreen I too now.
Like I've just never needed it.
It's never been something, it just works.
You know, there are a lot of advantages,
a Mediterranean skin, but this is one of them.
But as I've gotten older and I certainly have read more and more
about skin cancer and some of these things,
it's like, well, just because you don't burn,
doesn't mean you shouldn't be concerned about this.
And especially with our current world that we're in now,
where the, just scientifically,
the sun is closer everybody.
I mean, there's certain things that you don't have to be
an environmentalist or care about those things
to just understand the logical science
behind some of this stuff that we all need
to be a lot more better about this.
Well, yeah, and you talk to a dermatologist.
And, you know, I think we all have family members
who have frequent appointments to dermatologists
because when they were kids, you know,
sunscreen wasn't as common, wasn't as talked about,
but they were good in sunburns.
And they were, now they have, you know, skin cancer.
And they're going to the dermatologist scrape this stuff off.
It costs a lot, it's painful.
It's not fun to leave scars sometimes.
So, you know, anything you could do now
is gonna help you in the future.
And I think, you know, even years ago,
even 60 years ago, the sun was,
was giving people skin cancer.
Right, right.
You know, if it's worse today, I don't know.
It probably is, but it certainly was bad enough
60 years ago to give people skin cancer today.
So, yeah, it's a really good note, man.
Those are really good notes, I appreciate that.
So, when you're out in the sun,
you might be gardening too.
And I want to tell everybody that all of our garden seeds
are there and they're ready for you.
So, you know, those sea potatoes
you've been waiting for?
Oh, they're here.
She's good.
And those onion sets you've been waiting for?
Oh, we got the yellows, we got the reds,
we got the whites.
Oh, onion plants.
Onion plants, better hurry out.
Come and get them, they're here for you.
Yeah, there's probably,
probably be there for another week.
These things go quick, but we did get
a little bit extra this time.
So, I think we'll have some for a few more days,
but yeah, if you're wanting onion plants,
don't wait around.
And don't even plant storm mind people.
If you plant these, they become those kind of big
keeper onions, you can keep in your house
and your basement or whatever for most of the winter.
Slice them and fry them with eggs,
whatever you want to do, like they're great.
So onion plants, real nice to have.
Come in sooner than later.
Yeah, and it's a great time to start thinking about
like adding your peas and beans.
This is a good time.
Peas in particular.
Yeah, spinach could be early.
Yeah, so really start thinking of your garden
and what you want to eat this year.
Like Stephen has on our sign,
which is such a great one.
It's beet inflation with $0.99 seed packets.
So, like, bee, bee, bee, bee, bee.
I love it.
I love that.
So, you know, really think about that.
People are walking away with, they're spending 20 bucks
on like bushels and bushels of garden preparing
for their garden seeds and such.
I'm like, wow, you can't go to the grocery store
and get what you're gonna get right now.
Yeah, and I mean, you can buy garden seeds anywhere.
I just want people to plant a garden.
Like, we do it as a public service as much as we do it
as, you know, something we want to sell.
It's just important to us because it's something
that grandfather did years ago and our dad did
and we're still doing it.
He's selling garden seeds and planting gardens ourselves.
So, I don't really mind where you buy garden seeds,
but I will say, if you do want to look,
if you do want to save a few pennies,
our garden seeds are 99 cents a packet,
which I think is oftentimes half the price
of what you're finding in big box stores around
and those glossy seed packets.
And there's substantially more seeds in that 99 cent packet
than you find in these other stores.
So, it's not only that you're getting more seeds,
you might only have to buy one packet instead of two or three.
Yeah.
They're half the, you know, it's like,
easily half the price oftentimes.
So, these are a great value.
And like Katrina said, you buy, you know,
a couple packets of seeds, you spend a dollar to,
and you're getting like hundreds of dollars
with the vegetables out of your garden.
Yes.
It's really the best way to be inflation.
That and get a couple chickens for your yard.
There you go.
And you're set to go.
You can just kind of go to the grocery store
once a month or something for some odds and ends.
Everything you guys set along with the idea of,
you know, not only having the peace of mind
and knowing where this food is coming from
and all those things,
but the great feeling it is of creating your own meal
and creating your meal for others and everything,
feels really good to be able to do that stuff.
So, nothing but advantages of doing this
and getting those seeds and getting that garden started.
And before we let you guys go,
I know we did want to talk about allergies a little bit.
Yeah.
And by that, I mean,
I wanted to talk about allergies for you guys,
because it's another one of those things
that late in life I'm dealing with that I had no idea
until I started talking to you guys.
Like, why are my eyes so wandering and everything?
Oh, you can develop allergies later in life.
I learned that from you guys.
I didn't know that before.
Yeah, or my dog apparently.
I've got a bunch of stuff at the store right now
that I'm grabbing for natural things
to help him with allergies.
So certainly don't leave your pets out of this.
We have some natural products for pet allergies as well.
But yeah, allergies are popping up.
I've kind of had a little bit of it in my sinuses
or whatever in the last few days.
I always kind of,
I reach for this quercetin from Terry naturally.
Terry makes a really great quercetin product.
And it just works quickly.
I usually just have to take one a day,
but sometimes this time of year I'll take two,
maybe one in the morning, one at night.
We've got some great homeopathic.
Quercetin helps with the histamine responses
and the inflammation of the histamine.
So right, the allergies are gonna cause a histamine response
and that helps kind of lessen it.
And fun fact about quercetin,
you can find it in a quercetin naturally
in a lot of vegetables and skin,
specifically onion skin actually.
You can make a tea out of your,
you know, when you can,
you grow those onions, you know,
you slice them,
you're cooking them for your eggs,
you take the skins and so throw them away,
just like boil it in water
and make a nice little tea out of it.
I don't really know how to taste them.
I've heard of this theoretically,
but I haven't tried it practically.
But there's a,
you can lap it up every day,
get a little quercetin in there.
Yeah, I wonder about that.
I'll try that.
Something we're trying.
It's interesting.
I don't know.
I felt like Steven was saying,
we do have really great homeopathics.
There's some for kids.
Very sweet.
Very sweet.
So safe and so great for kids,
as well as, you know, pregnancy and so on.
But we have also allergy,
like homeopathics for allergies
and it's again working on like the histamine responses
or the runny nose,
the water, yeah.
We can also get more specific,
which is often nice.
Like if you're like,
oh, it's only the pollen,
it's always this time of year,
once the tree is,
and it's like, okay,
we got one specifically for pollen.
And then if you're like,
no, it's like all the time,
it's probably something in my house.
Well, we got one for dust or whatever it is.
I think my dog,
I just have to give him everything,
because he seems to be allergic to the little.
Yeah.
And he's like a rescue.
So I was like,
isn't that the benefit of getting a rescue?
Like they don't have too many health problems.
Sometimes.
Yeah.
I mean, he's pretty healthy otherwise.
I can't complain.
But these are all things that you can find out about
and there's so much more.
Again, keep in mind everybody,
we scratch the surface of things
that are going on over at Family Natural Foods.
Head on over there today and check out more
of the great things that they are doing
at 910 West Grand Avenue,
right here in Wisconsin Rapids.
Give them a call at 715-423-312-423-3120.
Be sure to bookmark their web page,
FamilyNaturalFoods.com,
and check out their Facebook page,
where you can see the presentations
and lock in on those
and not only have them on your calendar,
but let the gang know that you are coming.
We encourage you to do that
and spread these posts on your page.
You just never know who might see them otherwise.
Buy local support local.
Never be more adamant with our friends
at Family Natural Foods.
Thanks guys, appreciate you.
Yeah, yeah.
Say hi to the team over there for us too.
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