First Friday Mint Talk with Peppermint Jim

First Friday Mint Talk with Peppermint Jim

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James A. Crosby is a fourth generation mint farmer who grew up on the Crosby Mint Farm in St. Johns, Michigan. The farm is the oldest, continuously family operated mint farm in the United States, and Jim has been working it since he was nine years-old, taking over all of the production duties, there, in 1991.

Since then, Peppermint Jim has become one of very few renowned and well-respected artisan mint oil distillers left in the country, as well as an acknowledged expert and widely-quoted source on mint, internationally.

Peppermint Jim’s passions are mint, family farms, educating and creativity. And, he is a widely-respected, in-demand public speaker. His presentations include lectures on every aspect of the mint plant — from mint’s history and therapeutic benefits, to the production of his own, proprietary, organic Soil Rejuvenator and other innovative products under the recently created “Peppermint Jim, LLC” banner. His talks on ecologically friendly farming techniques, practical methods on becoming personally self-sustainable, observations and education on foreclosure and surviving the barrages of financial meltdown in these wobbly economic times, and on the creative process, witnessing miracles in every day life and keeping the faith in troubled times are crowd pleasers wherever he is invited to present them.

With his lectures, Peppermint Jim has traveled throughout the country, educating people about mint and self sustainability, inspiring and motivating thousands of people to believe in themselves, embrace their passion and to expect miracles. He says his intent is “to help people become individually self-sustainable through education and creativity”.

His new company, Peppermint Jim, LLC, was created in 2009 as a logical step in his personal evolution. Following in the footsteps of his previous company, Mint Grove, and his sister Linette’s, Get Mint Trading, which is operating out of the Crosby Mint Farm and is the repository of his world-renowned mint oils, Peppermint Jim LLC is the perfect forum for Peppermint Jim’s endless creativity.
Since its creation, Peppermint Jim LLC has developed three new and innovative products: Peppermint Jim’s Mojito Mix — a new and fresh mint take on Ernest Hemingway’s favorite Cuban rum mix; Chef Nick’s Mint Sauce — a collaboration with local Lansing legend, Chef “Nick” Nicklosovich — which revamps a culinary delight and brings mint into the 21st Century kitchen where it can serve as a marinade, a delightful caramelizing basting sauce, and a wonderfully surprising dressing for vegetables and salads; and Peppermint Jim’s Soil Rejuvenator, which has won several awards and is already a staple in the arsenals of thousands of organic gardeners all over the United States.

Between 2005 and 2010, the Crosby Mint Farm faced a lot of challenges. At one point, foreclosure reared its ugly head, as it has for so many US family farms. But Peppermint Jim and his fam ily weathered the many storms blowing across his beloved mint fields, and, as a result of his experiences surviving them, he acquired a vast array of experience and offers counseling and support to those facing troubled economic times and the specter of foreclosure and bankruptcy.

Peppermint Jim In The Media:
• Locale Magazine, August 2010;
• The Warren Pearce Show, WJR Radio, Detroit, August 2010;
• Coffee Break on LCC radio (call letters here) August 2010;
• WKAR Radio, August 2010;
• Detroit News, July, 2010:
• First Magazine, August, 2009;
• Edible Wow, Summer Issue, 2009;
• The Katherine Albrecht Show, GNClive , August 2009;
• Truth Brigade, American Freedom Radio , August and September 2009;
• Radio Free Bacon, Ann Arbor's 107one , September 2009;
• The Ed Schultz Show, XMSatelite Radio Channel 167 , October 2008
• The Solari Report, Solari.com, May 2010;
• Michigan Farmer, Fall Issue, 2004;
• Fork In The Road, National Organic Gardening Television, Featured three times in 2004 and 2005;

Peppermint Jim Awards and Recognition:
• Editor’s Choice Blue Ribbon Maker Faire Detroit 2010
• Certified Guinness World Record Holder for Largest Slab of Fudge, 2009
• World Records Academy World Record for Largest Slab of Fudge, 2009
• World Record holder for Largest Slab of Fudge in Germany and India, 2009
• State of Michigan Recycler of the Year, 2003
• State of Michigan Business Recycler of the Year, 2003
• Member of the Organic Trade Organization.
• Co-owner of the historic Crosby Mint Farm

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Date: Friday, August 5, 2011
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