"I see a world without sickness, sorrow, or mental disturbance in which we are living in perfect balance, abundance, health and harmony." -- Dr. Ann Wigmore

Ann Wigmore was born in Cropos, Lithuania on March 4, 1909. In 1925, at the age of 16, she moved to America to join her parents, who were already living in Massachusetts.

She married and later gave birth to a daughter, but it was only after the end of her marriage in 1955 that her life vision began to take shape. In poor health, she began using weeds and wheatgrass juicing to heal herself. Over the course of the next 35 years, she promoted natural healing via her schools in Boston, The Hippocrates Health Institute, which opened in 1963, and The Ann Wigmore Foundation, begun in Boston in 1985. Her brilliant, long-lived career included lecturing, writing, and giving wheatgrass demonstrations in over 35 countries.

Her untimely death in Boston on February 16, 1994, was due to smoke inhalation from a fire at the Ann Wigmore Foundation. Ann Wigmore's contribution as a humanitarian, educator, writer, and tireless promoter of natural health lives on here at the Ann Wigmore Foundation in San Fidel, New Mexico.

Dr. Ann Wigmore is known for healing the natural way through a diet of organic, raw, living foods. She is among other famous naturopaths and alternative medicine advocates such as Herbert Shelton and Viktoras Kulvinskas. Through a diet of raw foods, sprouting, dehydration, and vegetarian and fruitarian living, anchored in weeds and wheatgrass juicing, Dr. Ann Wigmore healed herself and promoted natural healing worldwide. Her legacy continues at the Ann Wigmore Foundation® Living Foods Lifestyle® Retreat Center in San Fidel, New Mexico, where people come to learn the Living Foods Lifestyle and how to prepare living foods such and take classes in:

• * Wheatgrass Hygiene
• * Colon Health Care
• * Energy Soup
• * Rejuvelac
• * Greenhouse Gardening
• * Sprouting Techniques
• * Veggiekraut
• * Dehydration Classes
• * Seed Cheese
• * and more ...