Welcome to the ZDF blog!

Thanks for being here! We’re excited to share health and wellness inspired tips, juice lifestyle suggestions, ideas, and more. If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already seen “Juice with a Purpose” stamped across our website, social media, and juice bottles. So before we dive into the blog, we want to share a bit more about what that means, and why we’re here in the first place…

What we're all about: ZDF creates healthy, clean, raw, organic juices made with only the highest quality and thoughtfully sourced ingredients. When the season allows, we grow most of our own produce in the Kansas City area. When we’re unable to grow in the colder months, we meticulously source ingredients from reputable certified organic farms, and local whenever possible. We never add sugar, preservatives, or artificial flavors (ever). We press whole vegetables, fruits and herbs in small batches and deliver fresh juice to homes and businesses across Kansas City. While creating a high-quality, premium product for customers is our focus, there's more to it than the juice…

"Pickle" (left) and "Olive" (right) are ZDF's original rescues, and our inspiration every day!

The purpose behind our juice: With every juice purchase, you directly support donkeys in need, and our plans to create a unique wellness-driven experience that combines clean, healthy products with donkey-assisted experiences and therapy, to help people and donkeys find health and wellness.

You may be wondering, why donkeys? Here’s the scoop…We love allll the animals, but what we’ve found is that donkeys are particularly intelligent, empathetic and versatile beings that can be amazing therapy facilitators, family pets, companions for other animals and protectors of livestock. After 20 years of experience with equine-assisted therapy programs that focus on horses, and a more recent discovery of our love for horses’ long-eared cousins, we believe donkeys are an untapped resource for alternative therapy for people with disabilities, and wellness activities for the general public.

Sadly, donkeys are in the midst of a global donkey hide trade crisis and need to be rescued. You can read the full report here from our friends at The Donkey Sanctuary. Unfortunately not many folks in the US know about this issue, and we want to help. So, we’re here to spread awareness about how awesome donkeys are by creating high quality, fresh, clean products that help fund our vision to create unique and healing donkey-assisted experiences for KC, and beyond. If you’re interested in learning more about our plans for the future of ZDF, please drop us a line any time! 

Ultimately there is no silver bullet for wellness, and everyone has different needs. So we aren’t here on the blog to tell you what to do or how to live your life (or that you need to believe in donkeys as much as we do). We are, however, here to share ideas, tips, tools, and to facilitate healing through healthy, plant-based, clean products…and a little donkey love :) We hope you enjoy our blog, and we look forward to your engagement and feedback.

-ZDF Team

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