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Thank you for your business & tea-evangelism!

Our Farm Sign on M-72 W. (heading towards Sleeping Bear Dunes)

Our Farm Sign on M-72 W. (heading towards Sleeping Bear Dunes)

Dear friend of Light of Day,

Your “Tea-evangelism” efforts contribute in a very significant way to help make others aware of the important work we are doing here on this diverse Biodynamic farm.

The loose leaf teas and tisanes that we produce here are labor-intensive ones which truly are made with incredible love and care. Our devoted team has been implementing Dr. Rudolph Steiner’s Biodynamic…

Finding Spring (just buried in the snow)

Fresh snow on the farm in April

 

Farm friends in the Midwest… did you, too, look out your window this morning with an irrational feeling of betrayal?

Living in a region which truly embraces all four seasons has a certain charm. We fall asleep to birds and color—and awake to white. There are few moments more magical than that first moment of waking to a thick, heavy blanket of snow where only the day before there was none. So perhaps it is unfair of…

Featured Tea ~ March ’13 ~ Levitating Lemon

Blender’s Notes: The fresh lemony scent of our newest green tea, Levitating Lemon, isn’t the only thing that will energize you – the Yerba Mate in this blend adds to its energizing effect!  It’s a great choice for these last weeks of wintery weather, to get you excited about the upcoming season and to give you the energy to complete your Spring projects.
Levitating Lemon Tea

Levitating Lemon Tea

100% Certified Organic Ingredients:  Sencha Green Tea, Yerba Mate, Lemon Balm, Lemon Peel, and Lemon…

Green Tea for this Green Month

 

Tea Plant grown  with love on our farm

Tea Plant grown with love on our farm

If you’re in Northern Michigan and all you see is WHITE outside today, you may be wondering how we can call this a green month.  Well, March’s holiday involves the color green, yesterday was the Spring Equinox, and it’s very green in the Light of Day greenhouse, so we know that it won’t be too long before Mother Nature lets us see green outside, too!  So, let’s celebrate with…

Mindfulness Meditation

Roses on a fence at our farm

Roses on a fence at our farm

 

Enliven your heart with this simple exercise…

Being told that we are loved is not the same as feeling loved. Knowing that the sun is shining by looking through a window is a very different experience than actually going outside & feeling the warm sunshine on your bare skin.
It is a healthy & happy person who both knows that they are loved, and feels that they are loved.
Basking in the warmth and…

Yoga Event

Detox, Restore, Renew and Connect- Jan.12th

- a yoga event at Shanti School of Yoga- Saturday, January 12th, 6-8 p.m. Light of Day Organics Tea offerings chosen to support your well-being: Right as Rain, Be Still, and Sun in the Winter. Namaste!

Entering the depths of Winter…

Sweet dreams, oh hibernating ones…may you awaken renewed and refreshed from your cocoons.

Our warmest wishes for a blessed and continuous celebration of these holy days.

With our love,

The Macke…

Is that a yurt?

Vince and I purchased and assembled a beautiful round structure called a yurt this past summer- in an effort to provide a safe and fun place for our children (and their many cousins and friends) to play while Mom and Dad are still working at the farm. We’ve all been enjoying this sacred space very much, as it’s such a cool place to invite our guests over for book, herb or Bible studies, family gatherings, homework, yoga stretching, quiet meditation, or quick “Jedi naps” as a break from a busy work day. The wood…

New website launched!

More to come on Pro Web Marketing….but for now, thank you to Dan, Jansen, Jason and Ryan for helping us get this new site launched! Special thanks to Sheri for corralling us into action.-…

Open House

Fall is here and we are scurrying around to wind up all the hoses, collect seeds, finish drying what we have harvested the past few weeks, and seal up the greenhouse and hoop houses to keep heat in. Our tomatoes, planted from seed around the 4th of July, are growing well within the rich hoophouse soil, and we prayerfully await their ripening.

We are hosting an informal “Open House” on Octber 13th,  for friends of the farm to come celebrate the closure of the season with us. We’ll have lots of hot tea, some healthy…

Love the Matcha!

Pictured here are 2 grades of Matcha (ours is on the left...)

Pictured here are 2 grades of Matcha (ours is on the left…)

Matcha is a true treasure, & for hundreds of years was reserved for monastery use only, as a meditative aid. It is the world’s most labor-intensive agricultural product, and therefore, is not available in endless supply. Due to the increasing popularity of the organic ceremonial grade that we offer (shown above on left), for the first time in our 8 year…

Quotes for “marinating”…

Harvesting feverfew with an agricultural comb

Harvesting feverfew with an agricultural comb

“Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile”.
-Wilfred T. Grenfell

Organic farm fresh veggies

Organic farm fresh veggies

” The body is a sacred garment. It’s your first and last garment; it is what you enter life with and what you depart this Earthly life with.. and it should be treated with honor”.
-Martha Graham

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