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Family and faith at core of Grace Harbor Local specialty farm built back from adversity, now continues to update product lines and sell widely

By Elisa Claassen for the Lynden Tribune

WHATCOM — Drivers along Birch Bay-Lynden Road get accustomed to seeing a jaunty phrase or an inspirational Bible verse on the small Grace Harbor Farms reader board. Behind the home is a simple office, a small lab and a retail store, and efficient equipment for creating both milk and health products.

Product labels on the Grace Harbor website and in the retail store indicate “all natural,” “live active cultures,” “no hormones” and “no antibiotics” — all of interest to today’s marketplace consumer who reads labels more carefully than ever.

Those familiar with the farm in the past also know of its goats, known as “Grace’s goats,” which are Saanens, a Swiss breed known for gentle nature, high milk fat content (3 to 4 percent) and good milk production. Today, many may not realize that much of the milk is actually from cows for Grace Harbor yogurt products. These include Golden Guernsey yogurt made from 100 percent non-homogenized Guernsey cow milk.

Just plain raising goats for the enjoyment and the diverse products that can be made from their milk was the start of Grace Harbor Farms in the 1990s. (Courtesy photo/Grace Harbor Farms) Why Guernsey milk?

The farm publicizes the use of Guernsey milk as containing 12 percent more protein, 30 percent more cream, 33 percent more vitamin D, 25 percent more vitamin A and 15 percent more calcium than average milk. The golden color comes from an unusually high level of the pigment beta carotene. The Cancer Fund of America Inc. states that “diets rich in foods containing Vitamin A, Vitamin C, and a precursor of Vitamin A called beta carotene, may reduce the risk of certain cancers.”

While it may appear that the farm is named for Grace Lukens, one of the owners, actually Tim Lukens explains the name: It is a result of their faith. “We chose the name at the start. God promises to take us out of the tempest and the

storm by God’s grace into a safe harbor.”

Tim oversees the accounting and marketing. Grace is involved in product development in the skin-care line.

The new millennium The year 1999 marked the end of an era for many, and a possible Y2K crisis for others. The Lukens family fell into the latter category. Concern about anticipated changes, after a discussion with a close friend in the computer industry, led them to make preparations such as growing their own garden for food at their original farm location on Drayton Harbor Road.

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They started by making goat milk soap for the Bellingham Farmers Market in that first year. As they talked to their customers, they heard not only requests for products, but also potential other uses of goats’ milk. One woman talked to Tim of her skin problems. Grace started to formulate lotions using MSM. In addition to the Bellingham outlet, the Lukens manned a kiosk at Bellis Fair Mall for more than two years, including three Christmas seasons, to bolster sales.

Other requests from customers were for cheese and for bottled milk. However, being a smaller farm operation, Grace Harbor found it simply didn’t have enough milk to expand much. While they understood the procedures for licensing and processing — including having the same dairy inspector come to their small farm as would go to a large Darigold facility — the family continued to bring products directly to stores without a middleman.

Each year, with each expansion, things seemed to go well ... until they didn’t go well. The difference was in using raw milk. Known for being very healthy, as well as something many local farm

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Tim Lukens shows a block of soap made from milk at Grace Harbor Farms. (Elisa Claassen/Lynden Tribune)

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families grew up on in Whatcom County and in the Puget Sound region, raw milk found a ready market especially in Seattle specialty health stores including one man who would literally fly in to Whatcom County to get it. While it was legal to sell it at the time, and they were licensed to sell it, in 2005 two children became quite ill with E. coli bacteria. The state health department eventually found evidence linking it back to Grace Harbor Farms.

When lawsuits strike and things go wrong Son David pauses to explain the significance of E. coli. The deadly bacteria is not easily understood by the general population, but is known by outbreaks from foods such as dairy and spinach. While the farm faithfully was testing for it, E. coli tends to live in colonies — and not evenly disperse throughout a tank of milk. A sample was taken from a tank of milk, but it missed a colony elsewhere in the tank.

In his ongoing training, David came to realize that many people don’t know their own behavior can exacerbate an E. coli problem. For example, a mom or dad goes to the store, buys groceries and puts the formerly refrigerated milk into the car.

It sits there for several hours as she goes on more errands or to games. During that time, the small colony of the bacteria could start to grow — and at an incredibly fast rate. Translated: The bacteria can double every 20 minutes if at 40 degrees or above. It can go very quickly from being safe to being deadly.

Tim points out that some bacteria is what also makes the body’s digestive system work. It isn’t all “bad.”

Thankfully, the Lukens say, the sick children did recover, but a lawsuit resulted. The farm underwent a series of big changes as a result.

“It was a dark time,” Tim said. “A tough time….the lawsuit was difficult.” It was settled in 2008 by the insurance company involved.

Grace Harbor stopped most of its operations during the litigation. Employees were let go. Son David left the farm for a time to work at North County Christ the King Church under former pastor Kim Ryan as a janitor. He also met his wife there.

Building back Once they decided to start up again, involving contacting some of their old retail stores for space, they decided not to have any more raw milk products. They would pasteurize, but not homogenize.

They could add live culture back into their yogurt safely. They also have focused on

From wooden molds for making blocks of soap, it is cut into smaller pieces and then put onto a tray for packaging and selling. The entire process happens on the farm. (Elisa Claassen/Lynden Tribune) producing the popular MSM cream with a separate skincare company to reduce the liability. A rabbi also comes up from Seattle regularly to inspect their facility to give a kosher certification.

Since their eight acres aren’t sufficient for cows needed for their dairy production, the Lukens now have strategic relationships with other dairies, Tim said.

They laugh in comparing their operation to now-popular microbreweries — they are a micro-dairy. Their size allows them to respond to the market, earn a living and make adjustments as they go into the future, Tim said.

David has been working closely alongside his father “serving” the customers as president/co-owner. “They are the base that came to us and asked us to do (develop) things,” Tim said.

Currently, the farm has eight fulltime and two part-time employees, in ad-

dition to family members. The skincare side has three part-time workers. The wish is to continue the business in the multigenerational way and possibly for others to come aboard at some point in an ownership capacity as Tim and Grace may eventually cut back but never fully retire.

Friends had told them of farmers using MSM for inflammation in horses. So Grace prayed and devised her own version of a cream. One of the first customers was a friend going through three to four chemo treatments a week resulting in painful hands and feet, with peeling skin.

Once this product noticeably helped her, she started to share it with others at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. It started to sell.

Likewise, people found it gave them good relief from stiff necks and sore backs and a variety of other aches and pains and

ailments such as restless-leg syndrome, fibromyalgia pain, bee stings, sunburns, and even toothaches, Grace said.

They were encouraged by hearing testimonials of the products at fairs they attended. “The testimonials were unbelievable … little miracles,” Grace and Tim said.

Moving forward with new product Grace said she had been interested in creating an extra-strength MSM cream for a couple of years. It has now been for sale since the end of November 2018, and sales have been good.

“We had tried to create a cream with more MSM in it in the past, but the product would not stay consistently smooth,” she said. “It would sometimes get a sandy, grainy feel to it.”

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“When I started hearing about hemp oil and its benefits for skin and pain, I decided to try it,” Grace said. “I am first of all a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, so I asked him to help me with the new formula. I felt led to add 50 percent more MSM crystal to the new hemp seed oil cream. In my surprise and delight, the hemp seed oil allowed the MSM crystals to remain dissolved in the cream — no grainy issues.”

When customers request “fragrance-free” options, she uses five essential oils (rosemary, peppermint, lavender, tea tree oil, eucalyptus) in her lotions and creams. She listened and added that option as well to both the original and extrastrength formulations.

“People love it. The essential oils make the cream more effective, but it still works without them. Some people are allergic to one of the essential oils we use, and sometimes someone just can’t stand the aroma of the essential oils.”

Grace Harbor products are available at many local stores as well as on the Birch Bay-Lynden Road farm. Shipping is now throughout the United States.

The goats continue to be the charming symbol, and the natural curiosity of visitors to Grace Harbor Farms. (Courtesy photo/Grace Harbor Farms)

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Pair brings specialties to Lynden Day Spa Templeton is in nutritional biofeedback, Kreiger in acupuncture

By Calvin Bratt editor@lyndentribune.com

LYNDEN — A pair of health professionals are now providing their services at the Lynden Day Spa, which is in Suite B3 at 1610 Grover St., where other wellness therapies are also located.

Janet Maberry Templeton is a practicioner in nutritional biofeedback while Amber Kreiger is a licensed acupuncturist.

This is a spotlight on what they offer.

Jan Templeton With “facelifting” also for one’s home or business, Templeton ties it all together in saying she provides “health and harmony for body, home and business.”

She has nearly 20 years of experience in natural health as a nutritional biofeedback specialist. She was born and raised in Lynden and recently moved back into town after operating in Fairhaven. Jan decided to relocate her practice because most of her clients are Lynden

residents.

Many locals may be familiar with this form of biofeedback similar to a service in White Rock, B.C. Templeton graduated from Western Washington University with a degree in home economics, with an emphasis in nutrition and interior design.

She then went on to become a certified nutritional consultant and biofeedback specialist.

Through Bastyr University she also became a certified practitioner in clinical aromatherapy.

“People come to me when they feel out of balance,” Templeton said. “Biofeedback scans the electrical system in the body and it identifies underlying issues of where the body might be out of balance and also determines the natural remedies it prefers to bring it to balance.”

Nutritional biofeedback determines your body’s stressors, leading to appropriate natural remedies and finding balance using the body’s electric system or meridians.

Symptoms of those who visit Templeton include weight gain or loss, fatigue, depression, headaches, sleep problems, pain, loss of libido, anxiety, hormone imbalances, allergies, food sensitivities and digestive problems.

Everyone needs a “personalized wellness plan” because everyone has unique health needs, Templeton believes, and

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“It’s a holistic approach to vibrant health,” Templeton says of her practice. “When it comes down to it, our health is the most valuable resource we have.”

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she turned to complementary medical approaches to turn her life around. Acupuncture and nutritional counseling not only restored her health, but also unclouded and opened her mind. She wanted to help others who struggled without relief.

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“I think of myself as a health instigator,” she says. “I am nudging the patient’s body in a positive direction so they can heal themselves.”

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Stay Mobile Massage now in Whatcom County Ruth Hesse takes her office on the road to patients, not vice versa

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LYNDEN ­ — Ruth Hesse graduated from the Brian Utting School of Massage in Seattle in 2007 and had her own practice in the city until 2014.

She made a move to Whatcom County that year, but wanted to keep her clients from the Seattle area. This led her to ditch the typical office setting of her career and create Stay

Mobile Massage, a massage service allowing Hesse to go to the homes of her clients instead of them coming to her.

“People have often told me they wished they could just sleep right after their massage and now they can,” Hesse said.

Being able to operate her business on the road has brought her many clients that include glassblowers, runners, derby girls and one American Ninja Warrior. Stay Mobile Massage currently serves Blaine, Bellingham, Lynden and unincorporated Whatcom County, in addition to the clients Hesse still has in Seattle.

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She has a special certification for intraoral massage which focuses on the muscles both inside and outside the mouth and jaw. She said this type of massage can help people with jaw issues or headaches.

She said her favorite part of the job is knowing the impact she has on her clients’ lives.

“The most rewarding thing about massage is knowing I have made a tangible difference in someone’s life and that they feel better after having seen me,” Hesse said. “I love showing people the difference massage can make in their posture, freedom of movement and stress levels.”

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Flow Motion brings healing through salt With funds raised in 2018 Kickstarter campaign, Ferndale spa is crafting three unique therapeutic caves

By Brent Lindquist brent@lyndentribune.com

A new room featuring amethyst crystals and a graduation tower is in place at Flow Motion of Ferndale and will open soon. (Courtesy photo/Alyssa Springs)

FERNDALE — Ferndale residents and visitors will soon be able to enjoy a portal to the Himalayas, right in the middle of town.

Alyssa Springs, who owns and operates Flow Motion out of the historic Carnation Oxford Building on Main Street, raised in excess of $50,000 from more than 200 backers on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter in a campaign that ended in May 2018. The money was to go toward creation of a therapeutic Himalayan salt cave.

According to the Kickstarter page, these caves are valued for their respiratory benefits: “They have historically been used to help people breathe easier with negatively charged ionized air and salt particulate in the air (called halotherapy).

Even today in Europe (especially eastern Europe), you’ll find people visit salt caves for similar reasons and to decompress, rejuvenate and unwind from modern life.”

Fulfillment of the project hit some setbacks, Springs said, but it is very close to completion.

“We were really hoping to open in January,” she said. “But it took months to get the orders in place, and then they had to manufacture and ship it.”

Springs ordered the Himalayan salt directly from Pakistan, but the 12-hour time difference made the process much slower than initially planned. Each small step in the ordering process took about a week, she said.

However, the salt is expected to arrive in the Port of Seattle this week Thursday, and it should be in the studio and ready for installation as soon as Feb. 1.

“It’s finally almost here,” Springs said.

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Volunteers work to place amethyst crystals on the walls of one of the new rooms at Flow Motion. There are three new spaces in total, including an upcoming Himalayan salt cave using salt shipped directly from Pakistan. (Courtesy photos/Alyssa Springs) Motion have set to work creating two additional rooms based on the interest shown in the Kickstarter campaign and Springs’ own research. She embarked on a cross-country trip last year visiting 15 different salt caves as far east as Pennsylvania, and she came back home with some ideas.

The Himalayan salt cave won’t be heated like a sauna, even though people have shown a great deal of interest in a heated cave, Springs said. So instead Flow Motion is creating a Himalayan salt infrared sauna, which will be the only sauna of its kind in Whatcom County.

Also, the waterfall that was originally planned to be placed in the salt cave will now have its own room. Springs discovered in her research that the waterfall could interfere with the dry nature of the salt cave.

Springs said this kind of waterfall, also known as a graduation tower, is popular in Europe, with people having used them since the 1400s.

“If you imagine a contained stack of sticks and twigs, really tightly packed, and then the saltwater will trickle down and you basically create a lot of surface area for it to hit and evaporate, so it’s

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putting a saline mist into the air that you breathe in,” Springs said.

The walls of the waterfall cave are covered in amethyst clusters, and there are stalactite formations made of paper clay in the Flow Motion caves as well, to enhance the feeling of being in a real cave. Special lighting also helps create the setting.

There’s enough salt coming from Pakistan, Springs said, that Flow Motion will make use of it in the spa’s existing sections.

“Every person who comes here will be able to benefit from the salt,” Springs

said. “It’ll be therapeutic, it’ll be healthy, it’ll be relaxing; it’s all of those things in one.”

Springs said she hopes the new cave rooms will help bring people in from Bellingham and surrounding areas to show them not only what Flow Motion has to offer, but what the city brings to the table as well.

The waterfall room will be the first ready, with the other two to follow in the next couple of months.

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Make brain health a priority in 2019 Research shows health lifestyle interventions may reduce risk of dementia CHICAGO — Alzheimer’s disease is expected to impact nearly 14 million Americans by 2050. So as people work on their 2019 New Year’s resolutions, the Alzheimer’s Association encourages everyone to include brain health on the list.

Research shows that other healthy lifestyle interventions — like those recommended for prevention of heart disease, diabetes, cancer and other major diseases — may reduce the risk of cognitive decline and dementia as well. Many of these preventive measures are things you may already be doing or thinking about starting in the new year: eating well, staying physically active and getting good sleep, to name just a few.

“There is increasing evidence to suggest that what is good for the heart is good for our brains,” said Keith Fargo, director of scientific programs and outreach at the Alzheimer’s Association. “Keeping our brains healthy is not something we should worry about only as we get older.

It should be a lifelong effort.”

The Alzheimer’s Association offers 10 Ways to Love Your Brain, tips aimed at promoting brain health. Combining all 10 behaviors offers a greater benefit than any single activity alone.

One easy way to encourage brain health at any age is to stimulate your mind with problem-solving challenges.

Working on a jigsaw puzzle, learning a new language and playing strategy games are a few ways to strengthen your memory — as long as they are new and challenging tasks. Research finds correlations between higher levels of formal education and a better cognitive reserve — so consider signing up for a class in 2019!

Another way to promote brain health is to take care of your mental health. Managing stress and anxiety is not only important for overall health and wellbeing, but studies have found a link between depression and increased risk of cognitive decline. Take care of yourself and seek medical treatment if you have symptoms.

Being social can support brain health. That’s right. Add “hang out with friends” and “have fun” to your New Year’s resolutions list. Better yet, take on several of these lifestyle changes for maximum impact. For example, enroll in a dance class with a friend.

Alzheimer’s researchers are now looking into whether a “cocktail” of these interventions can protect cognitive function. The Alzheimer’s Association’s U.S. Study to Protect Brain Health Through Lifestyle Intervention to Reduce Risk (U.S. POINTER) is a two-year clinical trial that hopes to answer this question, and it is the first such study to be conducted of a large group of Americans nationwide.

While there’s currently no certain way to prevent Alzheimer’s and other dementias, there is much to be gained by living a healthy lifestyle and adopting brain health habits you enjoy so you’re more likely to stick with them for the long haul.

The Alzheimer’s Association of Washington is based in Bellingham. Its 24/7 Helpline phone number is 1-800272-3900.

The 10 ways to love your brain and be healthier Growing evidence indicates that people can reduce their risk of cognitive decline by adopting key lifestyle habits.

When possible, combine these habits to achieve maximum benefit for the brain and body. Start now. It’s never too late or too early to incorporate healthy habits. ​Break a sweat

Engage in regular cardiovascular exercise that elevates your heart rate and increases blood flow to the brain and body. Several studies have found an association between physical activity and reduced risk of cognitive decline.

Hit the books

Formal education at any stage of life will help reduce your risk of cognitive decline and dementia. For example, take a class at a local college, community center or online.

Butt out

Evidence shows that smoking in-

Cognitive challenges are like exercise for the brain, and good socialization is also a stimulus. (Courtesy photo) creases risk of cognitive decline. Quitting smoking can reduce that risk to levels comparable to those who have not smoked.

Follow your heart

Evidence shows that risk factors for cardiovascular disease and stroke — obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes — negatively impact your cognitive health as well. Take care of your heart, and your brain just might follow.

Heads up!

Brain injury can raise your risk of cognitive decline and dementia. Wear a seat belt, use a helmet when playing contact sports or riding a bike, and take steps to prevent falls.

Fuel up right

Eat a healthy and balanced diet that is lower in fat and higher in vegetables and fruit to help reduce the risk of cognitive decline. Although research on diet and cognitive function is limited, certain diets, including Mediterranean and Mediterranean-DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension), may contribute to risk reduction.

Catch enough Zzz’s

Not getting enough sleep due to conditions like insomnia or sleep apnea may result in problems with memory and thinking.

Take care of your mental health

Some studies link a history of depression with increased risk of cognitive decline, so seek medical treatment if you have symptoms of depression, anxiety or other mental health concerns. Also, try to manage stress.

Buddy up

Staying socially engaged may support brain health. Pursue social activities that are meaningful to you. Find ways to be part of your local community — if you love animals, consider volunteering at a local shelter. If you enjoy singing, join a local choir or help at an after-school program. Or just share activities with friends and family.

Stump yourself

Challenge and activate your mind.

Build a piece of furniture. Complete a jigsaw puzzle. Do something artistic. Play games, such as bridge, that make you think strategically. Challenging your mind may have both short- and long-term benefits for your brain.

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