“Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.” 
 Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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Feb

After a winter of playing in the kitchen, tasting treats and perfecting recipes, we're ready to unveil The Beet Box Menu. This is a seasonal sample of our favourites, coming soon to a festival near you. Our beet burgers and roasted roots are always on the menu, in the Beet Box and at home, because we've discovered that everyone loves them, including people suspicious of vegetables in general, and of beetroot in particular. 'Delicious!' - self-appointed 'non-beet eater' Ariah Linville.

2016

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Feb

All vegetables are sacred, and the power of beets has been known since ancient times.  Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of Love, Pleasure and Fertility, was irresistible among the Goddesses, and desired by all. Legend tells that eating beets was the secret to her ageless beauty. The Oracle at Delphi decreed beets to be worth their weight in silver because of their deep mystic potency.  On this subject myth and history concur; Beets appear in the murals of lovers along the walls of the Lupanare,

2016

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Oct

Being shaken in an earthquake is a deep lesson in accepting that we live in a time of great shifts. I spent a few years living close to the Himalayas, but my first visit was in April 2005. I was twenty-three, fresh from six months in an ashram, Bihar School of Yoga in Northern India, third eye polished and heart wide open. The beauty of the mountains and the kindness of the Nepalese people filled me with awe.  I spent a few days in Kathmandu exploring its maze of stupas and cobbled streets. I

2015

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Oct

The roots of Sacred Beets began in the Himalayas. On April 24th 2015, a 7.9 earthquake shook Nepal. 10,000 people were killed. Many more lost their homes, their villages swallowed by landslides. Bamboo and I were living in a little stone cottage surrounded by 8000 foot mountains in the village of Anadu near Pokhara. Our neighbours were a Nepalese family who grew their own food on the mountainside, some goats with three young kids, and a one-eyed dog called Frankie. Anadu is only accessible by

2015