Lifeforce Naturals has been in the specialty food business since 1985. We originally started in Idaho as a “hobby” honey business called Life Force Honey & Winery. The winery part was the 4 different types of multiple award winning honey mead wines and melomels that we produced and marketed throughout the country.
What started out as a simple hobby, got “a little” out of hand to the point of having over250 bee hives and producing 10 TONS of honey a year, as well as 2000 pounds of bee pollen, most of which was exported to Taiwan. Talk about a hobby run amuck!
Over the space of several years, we saw areas in the specialty food market that we could fill with different products we were able to create. Eventually, we were producing over 28 different quality gourmet-style specialty foods for an ever expanding market, doing numerous retail and wholesale shows each year, and marketing a number of our products internationally.
Our business model was, and still is, quality and customer satisfaction, and began with different marketing activities such as home deliveries, educational programs, and beeswax candle rolling for children. In our travels throughout the Northwest participating in craft shows, wholesale food shows and other activities, we noticed that there was a need of an outlet for specialty foods and fine crafts. So, in 1992, we opened a successful specialty store in Moscow, Idaho, called Northwest Showcase. We featured the works of over 80 artists from the Northwest, as well as 50 specialty foods, including our own. We also opened an espresso bar in a portion of the store. We ran the store for 15 years, until the 80+ hour work weeks got a little tiresome.
We sold most of our businesses and kept some of our products like our award winning Palouse Red Bell Pepper Sauce, which we still market. We then moved to the Olympic Peninsula.
Our sauce is called “Palouse Red Bell Pepper Sauce” because of it’s origins in the rolling hills of the Idaho and Washington palouse. It is not a hot product, but sweet, and compliments many dishes from smoked meats and poultry to omelets, and bagels with cream cheese. One of our favorite uses is over eggrolls! We participate in local farmer’s markets in Port Ludlow and Kingston, Washington, and ship throughout the United States to stores and individuals.
Our sauce was the winner of the N.A.S.F.T. award for the best recipe in 1993, and our Red Bell Pepper Mustard was the 1998 National Mustard Association runner up.
There is no cholesterol in our sauce. It is low fat, and low sodium. It is one of those products that is fun to eat. You can be as creative as you like with it and rarely be disappointed! It’s just a fun product, and it tastes SOOOOO good!
We use state of the art food production equipment to produce our red bell pepper sauce, and always are striving for higher quality and complete customer satisfaction. We invite your comments and recipe suggestions on our website (which is under construction) www.Life-Force-Specialty-Foods.com
