I felt inspired to compile a list of useful resources for those interested in raising children raw. This is actually smthg people ask me about often, although I am not (yet ;) a mother, so I thought it would be helpful to collect all these fabulous resources together in one place, for all to enjoy ;)

Here we go:

Websites

*http://www.thegardendiet.com – beautiful Jinjee is raw mum ext–raw–dinaire to at least five little ones – she has masses of info, pics, ebooks, magazines, audios, videos and more to share on pregnancy, ecstatic birth, child–raising and more...

*http://www.rawmom.com – fabulous site that is home (among other things) to a blog where different raw mums from around the world write weekly, sharing guidance.

*http://rawtoddleralex.blogspot.com – blog from yummy–mummy Melissa Gilbert who has been raising her son Alex raw and tracking his progress online since birth. She has two wonderful raw recipe books for baby/toddler foods. Melissa also has her own blog at http://rawmom.blogspot.com.

*http://pullingdaisies.blogspot.com – sweet Annelise’s blog following a raw pregnancy, birth and child raising.

*http://www.karenranzi.com – Karen has been teaching about raising ‘Super Healthy Children’ for a decade. She has classes, a book and a great list of links at her site.

*http://www.brigittemars.com – Brigitte Mars is a herbalist, mother, raw foodie and all round shining light ;) She is mother to the gorgeous Rainbeau Mars, who is also a raw yogini mama – see http://www.rainbeaumars.com.

Articles/Videos/Magazines

*‘Raw Vegan Children’ article by Shazzie

*‘Raising Raw Children’ article by Matt Monarch

*‘Raw Parenting’ interview with Shazzie on Natural News

*Revvel interviews Jinjee Talifero

*Revell interviews Shazzie

*Summer Kolesar on YouTube

*Juno Magazine – all about natural parenting, raw foodie Kate Magic has contributed a great deal to this magazine.

*Pear Magazine – this an online raw food magazine, which often has articles about raw children or written by raw parents.



Books/DVDs

*Evie’s Kitchen by Shazzie

*Birth As We Know It (one of the best DVDs I’ve ever seen)

*The ‘Anastasia’ Books by Vladimir Megre (these books have influenced me more than any others)

*Baby Greens by Michaela Lynn

*Fresh by Sergei and Valya Boutenko – has info on how to transition kids to raw.

*Eating without Heating by Sergei and Valya Boutenko – raw recipe book from the Boutenko ‘kids’.

*Raising Children Raises Us book & DVD by Shannon Leone – Shannon’s gorgeous, loving spirit flows through her work.

*The Children's Health Food Book by Ron Seaborn

*Breakthrough DVD – from Jinjee and Storm

*Raw Living and Eat Smart, Eat Raw – both by Kate Magic, these raw recipe books are packed with practical recipes Kate used to raise her three boys.

*The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff

*Primal Mothering in A Modern World by Hygeia Halfmoon

*What Mothers Do Especially When It Looks Like Nothing by Naomi Stadlen (If I was only able to read one non–raw–orientated book on being a mother, I would choose this – AMAZING info ;)

*Sun–Sational Raw Baby Food and Sun–Sational Smoothies by Melissa Gilbert – 2 ebooks from this lovely raw mum.

*Wise Woman's Herbal for the Childbearing Year by Susun Weed

*Pregnancy and Oral Health by Mama Gums



Foods that children seem to LOVE :)
As previously mentioned, I am not yet a mother – from what I’ve observed of raw children however, these seem to be some of their favourite foods:

*fresh fruits
*smoothies – greeeeen or nut–milk based
*nut/seed milks
*raw cakes, pies, cookies, yumballs – anything sweet ;)
*bee pollen
*chia puddings
*raw food snack bars
*grawnolas/cereals
*dried fruits like mulberries, goji berries, incan berries
*freeze–dried fruit – mangosteen, jackfruit, durian

The biggest struggle most raw parents seem to have is getting greeeeens into the little loves...well, here’s sending you all great gushing green smoothie love... ;)

Ok, I listed everything that came to mind here about raising children raw...I hope this is useful to at least some of you ;)
I’m sure there are other wonderful resources out there too – feel free to leave a comment HERE if there are other links/books etc you’d love to see added to this list :)