Category Archives: Richard’s corner.jpg) Thirty years ago, Seagate’s factory in Ensenada, Baja California was in an isolated location. However, local population growth has led to the spread of a surrounding neighborhood filling up with houses, apartments, and shops right up to the walls of the factory. During the last 5 years, for the first time we have neighbors … […] .jpg) A customer named Terri C. recently wrote this email to Seagate concerned about her purchase of Olive Leaf Extract that had a date stamped 9/13 on the bottle. Comments: Hi: I have olive leaf extract pills with an date of 9/13 on the bottom is it still safe to use? This is a question that […] .jpg) A customer in Duncanville recently wrote this email to Seagate concerned about discovering that Seagate operates farms in Mexico. Comments: I much prefer taking olive leaf than going on antibiotics. However, I was shocked to read on your label that this product is actually grown in Mexico; I thought it was from your farm in […] .jpg) During the first week in March 2014, while sailing a small catamaran (Prindle 18-2) in the southern end of San Diego Bay near Imperial Beach, the boat got stuck on a muddy shallow bank. While trying to free it, a sudden wind coming off the Pacific flipped the boat over, landing it on its side. […] .jpg) A customer named Joyce living along the Hudson Valley north of New York City recently wrote this email below to Seagate concerned about our company’s processing and use use of shark liver oil and whether it was affecting the “balance of Nature”– Comments: I am hesitant to purchase products from a company that uses shark […] .jpg) The olives in the photo above have just been transferred by plastic tote boxes from our farm to our factory in Ensenada. At this point, they will be visually inspected, selected, separated and washed prior to loading into the vacuum tank shown below. Although we call this season #2 for Seagate’s olive oil production, this […] I have been overwhelmed by emails from people around the world that have been following my progress dealing with Grover’s Disease. To recap- Grover’s is a rash or skin disease which is really not even properly classified because there have been so few studies performed, since it is not life-threatening . Some doctors call it […] .jpg) Xylitol has become widely used as a substitute sweetener for cane sugar in foods, desserts, toothpaste, and gum. While it is harmless to humans and has several excellent benefits compared to raw sugar, it can be deadly to dogs. Benefits for humans: Many people categorize Xylitol as an artificial sweetnener. However, it is a naturally-occurring […] .jpg) On a recent dive trip to film underwater critters in Lembeh Straits, Indonesia I had another bout with itching skin, as a result of numerous bites. It seems that my poor skin is under attack no matter how hard I try to take precautions. This area of Indonesia has malaria, dengue fever, and a host […] .jpg) It has been exactly one year since my last posting regarding this ongoing skin rash called Grover’s. The rash began to bother me in around October, 2011. So it has been almost 2 years that I have been coping, or more accurately, fighting with it. The good news is that it has now been one […] |
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