Dr. Tia Jolie Phillips is the director of and a consultant for Health & Wealth Solutions, LLC. In 2014, Tia Jolie completed her Master of Science degree in Holistic Nutrition from The University of Natural Health. In 2016, she became a doctor, earning an additional (PhD) degree Holistic Nutrition and Natural Health.Tia Jolie is an entrepreneur, a philosopher, a philanthropist, a scholar, an athlete, a writer, a musician and a skilled aviator.
Today, Dr. Tia Jolie consults individuals in health, beauty and wellness through her company Health & Wealth Solutions (www.TiaJolie.com ). Her passions have her helping Humans learn about clean eating and clean water. In 2018, she conceptualized a grand project called Earth Angel which is manifesting right now. She is also currently beta testing for proof of concept a peer-to-peer business network of holistic service providers called Bella Solutions (www.Bella.Solutions). Her core competencies include public speaking, sales training and motivation and persuasive writing. Her activities, however, always include family & flying whenever possible.
This is what Dr Jolie has to say about her presentation on "Growing a Healthy Gut with Plant-Based Eating".
"Plant-Based eating is among the top trends in the world today. So many people have so many questions that I am being invited regularly to speak at various meetings, churchs, online seminars and local interest groups. It is common for every seat to be taken and we expect such to be the case for this event, too."
Whew, October is over and now November is almost gone. I still don’t quite know how that has happened. Last month’s meeting, “Gifts that Grow”, was a big success, we had a full room of attendees (45 at last count!) and a ton of raffle items as well. I want to say a huge Thank You to all the presenters last month, Leslie Rigg, Cathy Azzarello, Kathleen Burford, Chris Radentz, and Marci Green. You all were wonderful and the meeting was packed with great ideas.
We split up the plant sale duties between our board a few years ago. (I for one was ecstatic about this, since I had the pleasure of doing all the plant ordering for both yearly sales, for around, oh, 8-9 years or so. Now we have split the spring and fall order responsibilities between Marci Green and Mary Wickensheimer. I want to say “Thank You” to you both, you have done a great job). I want to tell you a little bit about what goes into having a successfully sale.
One of the biggest, if not the most important duty is ordering the plants. Ordering is a tricky thing, did we order enough? Did we order too much? Did your grower have an issue and has lost his whole crop of (insert bestselling type of herb), do you substitute? Will anyone want spearmint this go round? (They sure did when mojitos were the drink of choice). Should we order that new type of sage? Will it sell? Oh no, it poured all weekend and the show was dead. Will we at least break even? You just don’t know. Over the years we have come up with a generalized list of order amounts, but even that can be iffy.
EHS is not a nursery, we don’t have a garden center to bring our left over babies back to and sell them there. If we don’t have a meeting right after a plant sale (to use the leftover plants for our raffle and sell), we have to figure out where those leftover plants are going, and can we keep those sweet little pots of new herb growth alive for a month, till the next meeting?
There is the booth rental contract to be filled out, tables to be ordered. Is the booth space the same? Did you (insert Meg), remember to call Dennis to set up the tent? Who will be available to accept a Thursday plant order (And will that truck breakdown and not show up till night fall? Maybe.) What about set up on Friday? All those pretty herb plants have to be unloaded and then loaded onto tables that need to be set up before our delivery. Who will alphabetically organize the herbs and label the plants? And do we have enough bank and change for our customers? What about bags, and EHS fliers? Who was printing the signs again for the booth? Where’s Ingrid with the checkbook to pay for all this?
Do we have enough volunteers to man the booth? This is another key element for a successful plant sale for us! Without our volunteer’s actually saying hello and talking to our customers, we can’t sell a plant right? All of us love to socialize, the key is keeping our group motivated to help our customers, when we do, that customer comes back to us at the next sale. It can be tough, we all want to have fun together, but we also need to sell these plants! Thanks Ingrid, for always being on top of that! Oh, and here’s a biggie, who is bringing what for our lunch on Saturday? Do we have leftovers for Sunday’s lunch? What about lunch utensils, and water?
So folks, that’s just a little insight to our twice a year plant sales. That old saying, “Many hands make light work” is true. We, the EHS Board would like to have you come join us next spring and have some fun.
I also want to Thank the EHS Board members who are at these plant sales most of the weekend working. And a huge Thank You to our members who come out and volunteer with us, we can’t do these sales without you!
And btw, the dust hasn’t totally settled yet from this last plant sale. But, it is looking like we did make a profit which is hovering at about $1,000.00. Thanks to everyone’s help!
Meg
December 11, 2018 CBD Medicine, Presented by Laura Olson of euFloria Healing. Held at The Stuart Center for Couples and Families, Stuart Fl. Tuesday 6 pm to 8 pm.Tickets limited to 20 attendees, by reservation only. Cost $41.59. www.eufloriahealing.com . Learn about the science of Cannabinoids, what relationship it has with your body and what is best for each individual.
December 15, 2018 Chakras, Crystals and Sound Healing Meditation, hosted by Kashi School of Yoga, Sebastian, Florida. Saturday 1-3 pm. Tickets $30.00. www.clients.mindbodyonline.com
772-589-1403.
January 12th, 2019 Florida Mushroom Festival, Ravine Gardens, Palatka, Florida. Saturday 9 am - 11 pm. Lectures, demos, mushroom vendors, music and food. Free Event. (Also a Mushroom Feast cost $125.00 per person.) www.pmhigh.com
386-546-6554.
January 27, 2019 Bioregional Herbalism, Sustainable Kashi, Sebastian, Fl. Sunday 10 am – 12 pm. Devi Pagan of The Center for Botanical Arts will lead this class on exploring bioregional herbal medicine and the importance of pollinator awareness. Tickets $10.00 www.greeneducationcenter.com
February 22 thru 24 2019, 8th Annual Florida Herb Conference, Retreats by the Lake, Lake Wales, Florida. Keynote Presenters Angelique “Sobande” Greer and Jody Noe. General Registration $200 before 11-15-18, before 12-31-18 $225 and after $250.00. Price includes primitive camping, general classes and activities. Meal plans available, as well as intensive courses at an addition cost.
www.floridaherbconference.org
www.holisticlivingschool.org 407-595-3731.
March 15, 2019 Edible Weed Walk with Andy Firk. Hosted at Sustainable Kashi, Sebastian, Fl. Friday 10 am – 12 pm. This is the second year of Andy’s weed walk at Kashi, last year sold out quickly. Tickets $15.00. www.greeneducationcenter.com. Andy Firk http://www.floridaforaging.com.
Be prepared to be razzled and dazzled once again by the presentations of your very own EHS Board and Members. They will be demonstrating how to make Homemade Vanilla Extract, Chocolate Confections, Tea Blends ,Herbal Bug Repellent and Herbal Air Fresheners to name a few. Come and learn something new for your holiday gift giving.
November 3 and 4th. Saturday 9 - 4 pm and Sunday 9 - 3 pm. EHS booth selling all your herb plant needs.
Come starting at 5:00 pm, Dinner starts at 6:30 pm. Turkey, ham, gravy and tea provided by EHS. The rest of the good fixings come from our members. There will a sign-up sheet at our meeting. Please make note of this time change so you don’t miss the dinner!
Welcome back EHS members and friends! Even though it’s still been unbearably hot out, we are firmly in our fall growing season here. Seedlings and baby plants have been popping up in all the nurseries, pots of mums and pumpkins are everywhere it seems. Our Green Markets and CSA shares are beginning to start up again this month as well.
I’m not going to give a condensed version of Jeannie Fernsworth’s great talk last month, hope over to Marci Green’s Secretary’s Summary, she did a great job
Presented by Meg Vandereedt
Jeannie is a horticulturist/botanist who trained at The New York Botanical Garden and at Sarah Lawrence College. She is a lifetime gardener who learns something new every day. Jeannie is the co-founder of The Delray Beach Children’s Garden.
The Delray Beach Children’s Garden is a non-profit with the mission of eco-consciousness in children through nature education and play. It is located
The Master Gardener Fall Class of 2017 is helping the Coleman Park after school kids learn to grow their own food and we are in need of some herb donations for the garden. Many of these children aren’t always sure where their next meal will come from and the garden will give them food to take home for their families to enjoy and teach them how to grow their own food at home. A farmer donated vegetable seeds but the kids want to grow herbs too. If you have some extra seeds or some cuttings you can donate to the garden please contact Chris Radentz at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or (561) 889-8343 or bring your donation to the September or October EHS meeting. We will have someone at these meetings to pick up any donations. If you are interested in volunteering to help with the garden project please contact Chris at the contact information above. We thank you in advance for your help with this community project!
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