Books, CDs, Videos: Mail-order & Retail Shops

TheGardenDiet.com - eBooks, videos including 'Breakthrough' (a documentary about their raw vegan family), cd's/mP3's, newsletter, before/after photos, and lots more from a beautiful raw, vegan family in Canada.

Chefs & Caterers

SimplyRaw - Raw Vegan consulting and catering service based in Ottawa, Canada. SimplyRaw helps people enrich their health and well-being by integrating simple, natural-based guidelines into their current lifestyles. See photos of raw vegans from SimplyRaw enjoying a variety of sports and activities. They also run the annual SimplyRaw Festival.

Events

The Living Centre - Conscious Living Workshops & Retreats; Purification & Rejuvenation Retreats; Spiritual Fasting Retreats; Ayurvedic Living Foods Nutrition Workshop; Transitioning into Vegetarianism & Live Foods; Living Movement workshops & retreats; Healing with Breath & Sound workshops; Emotional Bodywork & Body Reflexology; Sacred Relationship Workshops; Earth Wisdom: Deep Ecology; The Sacred Journey retreats; Sweat Lodges (all of the above offered as a private or group experience). Celebrations: Full Moon & Equinox & Solstice Gatherings...see their extensive online Calendar. See a more detailed listing in our "Raw Food Lifestyle: Centers" below.

SimplyRaw - A raw vegan consulting service based in Ottawa, Canada. SimplyRaw helps people enrich their health and well-being by integrating simple, natural-based guidelines into their current lifestyles. They offer personal coaching, live-food/healing workshops, seminars, monthly potlucks & talks.

Farms & Farmer's Markets: Organic

Canadian Organic Growers - National Office, 323 Chapel Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 7Z2. Canada's national membership-based education and networking organization representing farmers, gardeners and consumers in all provinces. You do not need to be an organic farmer or an organic gardener to be a COG member. For organic farms, see their 'Database of Organics in Canada'. The directory is intended as a comprehensive listing of those involved in the organic food industry in Canada. The information in the directory is available free to anyone wishing to conduct an on-line search.

Fasting Centers

Nature's Health School of Natural Hygiene - Fasting supervision available, see listing in 'Natural Hygiene' below.

Natural Hygiene

Nature's Health School of Natural Hygiene - 1055 Inglewood Ave, West Vancouver, B.C., Canada V7T-1Y1. Dr. Halanna Matthew, specializing in Nutrition, Fasting and Monthly Seminars. Books & tapes. Intensive Cleansing / Fasting Retreats in Beautiful Vancouver, BC, Canada! Personal Health Programs. Personal Health / Nutrition Information Service.

Potlucks & Support Groups

Raw Food Society of BC - PO Box 19020, 4th Ave RPO, Vancouver, BC V6K 4R8, Canada. RawBC Mission: "To inform about the benefits of a raw, unprocessed plant-based diet and offer support as people make healthy choices in that direction.".

SimplyRaw - Promote the raw vegan lifestyle in the local community through hosting monthly raw vegan potlucks.

Products: Retail Stores & Online Markets

Raw Nutrition Canada (See top of page Banner)- Suppling Canadians with some of the best Organic Raw Food Products and Supplies. Organic Raw Nuts & Seeds, Raw Food Bars, Raw Super-foods, Organic Fair Trade Coconut Oil,"Raw Food" Health Books, Juicers, Dehydrators, Appliances and much more.

Rawganique - Rawganique.com Hemp Products calls Denman Island, British Columbia, home but has shipping centers in Washington state and California as well as BC. A green living & natural fiber clothing superstore. Rawganique.com carries quality hemp goods: hemp clothing, hemp footwear, hemp bath, organic cotton bedding accessories, and organic hemp foods made especially for us as well as products by Ecolution, Mum's Original, Jus Naturale, EcoDragon, Blue Canoe, Under The Nile, and so much more. They are also a source for vegan living: vegan clothing, vegan shoes, vegan sandals, vegan bed and bath accessories, and raw organic vegan foods.

Forever Healthy - 1 Yorkville Ave. Suite 1, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4W 1L1. Web site that provides unique, top quality premium living/raw whole foods, whole food supplements, health equipment, skin care and a variety of health lectures to empower you to Living Forever Healthy!

Raw Food Lifestyle: Centers

Living Foods Educational Health Center - Classes, workshops, products under the direction of Judith Wade, a graduate of the Living Foods Lifestyle Total Well-Being Education (under the guidance and care of Ann Wigmore N.D.). They are planning the following facilities & services: swimming pool, hydrotherapy, luxury accomodation, colon irrigation.

Forever Healthy - 1 Yorkville Ave. Suite 1, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4W 1L1. Founded by Wayne Gendel in 1992. Wayne has been lecturing, consulting and distributing premium health products for many years. See listing in 'Products: Retail Stores & Online Markets' above

The Living Centre - 5871 Bells Rd., London, ON, N6P-1P3. Founded in 1983, The Living Centre is located on a beautiful 50 acre country property. The dynamically alive energy of this land, and wide range of wild life are all a part of what makes this a safe space to be yourself, explore your inner landscape, laugh, cry, play, cleanse, rejuvenate & discover ways of living that will enhance your whole life. In addition to our unique circular medicine wheel garden with it's over 500 medicinal herbs, we have organic fruit and vegetable gardens, our teaching lodge which is surrounded by a 1000 sq. ft. Earthship solar greenhouse, a pear orchard, fields of wildflowers, a tranquil pond, meandering stream & a magical forest. The Living Centre is run by Walter Shantree Kacera, D.N., Ph.D. and Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera, who delight in blending their 30 years (each) of experience to offer programs that support individuals in the practice of conscious living. For events, see 'Events' above ... and their extensive online Calendar.

Raw Food Lifestyle: Consultants

Whole Image Nutrition.com is based in Toronto, Canada, founded by Simona Stepancic Holistic Nutritionist, Natural Health Therapist, Reiki practitioner, and Raw food nutritionist.

Power of Raw workshops with Erika Wolff - Toronto, Ontario. Courses explore a practical, healthy eating program, easy to implement, supporting your intuition and creativity. You will have the opportunity to ask questions, bring your knowledge and share it. You will receive a booklet with easy to prepare recipes, fasting and cleansing information.

SimplyRaw - A raw vegan consulting service based in Ottawa, Canada. SimplyRaw helps people enrich their health and well-being by integrating simple, natural-based guidelines into their current lifestyles. They offer personal coaching, live-food/healing workshops, seminars, monthly potlucks & talks.

The Raw Vegan Network - Provide free contact services for people desiring help in there local area for raw food services, and online raw food certifications for those who wish to expand their portfolio of expertise enabling them to serve others in there locale that wish to experience the health benefits of living a raw food lifestyle. For events, see their Member Events page.

Restaurants & Juice Bars (*=Vegetarian, **=Vegan, ***=raw foods)

Live Food Bar **/***- 264 Dupont St.(North East corner of Dupont and Spadina), Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5R 1V7. Vegan, organic and raw foods. Fresh organic juices, gourmet entrees, and raw food desserts. Raw products available. Catering and delivery upon request.

Vacations & Retreats (*=Vegetarian, **=Vegan, ***=raw foods)

New Life Retreat *** - RR4, 453 Dobbie Road, Lanark, Ontario, Canada K0G 1K0. 613-259-3337. NEW LIFE RETREAT - Centre for Wellness and Eco Living offers a nurturing environment through the creation of an atmosphere of a quieter, simpler time on an eco-sustainable 100-acre organic farm in the beautiful Lanark Highlands. Explore and reconnect with nature. Regain clarity and mission in life. The central focus of this centre is the teaching and living of a live foods and eco lifestyle. Fresh, organic, live, vegetarian cuising is the heart of the diet. Learn to grow and prepare living foods. New Life Retreat offers a relaxed hands-on educational experience in living food preparation. The centre has a holistic approach honouring support for the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects for greater wellness through a balance of activities including integration of the living foods diet, exercise, body work, meditation, educational sessions, time in nature, and play. Relax on a eco-organic farm set on 100 acres, with gardens and greenhouse. Modern, comfortable and environmentally sensitive facilities. Immediate area offers walking trails, wildlife watching, bicycling, swimming, canoeing/kayaking (on the lake nearby), snowshoeing, skiing, hot-tub.

Note: see our sister site, The Vegetarian Travel Guide: Vacation chapter for vegetarian vacation choices, request that they offer a raw food menu!