April 2018
WELLNESS RISING M NTHLY
Wellness Rising Farmers Market Beginnings
Our first newsletter is hot off the press! We are thrilled over the growth, success, and support of the Wellness Rising Farmers Markets. We appreciate each and every individual who has supported our markets, patron and vendor alike. A heartfelt ‘thank you!’ from each of us to each of you.
The founding members of the Wellness Rising Coalition are a group of four enthusiastic women who have a passion for health and wellness. Among us there are mothers, beekeepers, an herbalist, an aromatherapist, cooks, bakers, wellness warriors and educators, an avid gardener and seed saver, and a loyal sisterhood with a mission to create a health and wellness movement one month at a time.
Born out of frustration with today’s broken healthcare system, and the realization that many of our local farmers markets are not organized with a sharp focus to only include verifiable growers and producers, we created a gold standard market that is our vision for the future of healthcare. We carefully vet each vendor who wishes to participate in our Wellness Rising Farmers Markets to ensure they align with our mission.
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The vision of Wellness Rising is to promote overall wellness by bringing together speakers, practitioners, and vendors that address each facet of wellness: Food, self-care, skin-care, and keeping our homes as toxic free as possible.
Our mission begins with a focus on wellness education and ends with resources that meet our gold standard. As part of that gold standard we only include local farmers, food artisans, and vendors of all-natural, chemical-free health and beauty products, along with health and wellness coaches and practitioners. This ensures Wellness Rising is the premier farmers market in the Chicagoland area and that each vendor will provide value to the market overall as well as to each participant, shopper and vendor alike.
Wellness Rising is about a whole life approach to health care, caring for mind, body, and spirit. We are a coalition committed to bringing awareness to the health and wellness space.
In our first six months, the wellness education facet of our mission covered the following topics: What’s Best for the Breast; Eastern Exploration; Taking out the Toxic Trash; Attention on Adrenals; Learn How to Love Your Guts, and Functional Medicine. We look forward to revisiting a few of these topics as the market gains momentum so that a broader portion of the community we serve can be reached. We will also have the opportunity to fine tune the presentations so they are even more impactful.