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Fruit Festival announcements
Regular – September 10 to 14, 2025
XXL – September 8 to 14, 2025
&
Fruit&Sea October 22 to 29, 2025
Fruit and Vegetables are good for you. Everyone knows that. Even little hungry children prefer to eat washed and cut fruit first, at a big buffet.
Advertisements for food use colourful fruits and vegetables to attract our attention. Our whole digestive system is perfectly suited to consume fruits and vegetables completely unprocessed from nature, just like those animals, who are built similar to us. No gory slaughterhouse processes needed. Neither are ofens, frying pans, grills or complex recipes. We simply pick and enjoy.
Beautiful things happen, when we cooperate with the laws of nature instead of trying to force our will on them. Suddenly, nature is our valued partner and multiplies our efforts. Sailboats are such an example – their elegance of dancing with the wind cannot be matched by a motorboat, regardless of how powerful.
Health is exactly such a dance. We cannot force our bodies to be healthy. It doesn’t matter how many tiny organisms we kill or how much we try to shield ourself from outer influences. Health cannot be forced. It has to be ‘danced’.
Natural laws can be daunting, big and brutal at first glance. But just like the big wind is welcomed for a small sailboat and its skilled sailor, so the laws of health invite us to learn all about them and to become ever more skilful in using them.
Our Festival of Fresh Fruits Austria helps us on this journey by listening to those more experienced, eating simply delicious foods, learning healthy habits together by practice and enjoying each other’s encouraging company for some days. Why don’t you come and join us?
About Raphael
Fruit Festival Organiser
Raphael grew up eating vegan after his parents joined the Seventh Day Adventist movement and embraced the vegan lifestyle in the early 1980’s. Since then, his father, previously a chef of conventional Austrian cuisine, and his Mother have been promoting holistic health and vegan cuisine as a desirable way of life rather than just an uncomfortable, temporary form of health cure.
As a follower of Dr. Douglas Graham’s 80/10/10 diet since Februay 2018, and certified 80/10/10 coach since October 2023, Raphael together with his team is now organizing fresh fruit festivals for the health conscious community in Austria since 2019 where people can experience, learn and taste just how desirable a life can be, when it follows the simple laws of the creator.
Coaching: raphaelresch@festivalfrischerfruechte.at
About Gabriella
Grown up in the beautiful Salzburgerland, she married the chef Erasmus Resch after her A-Levels in an school of higher education in household management. With their five children they lived in different european countries because of his job. They held cooking classes and health lectures from their rich experiences in natural lifestyle and different diets. They grew up with Austrian delicacies, in 1980 have first changed to ovo-lacto-vegetarian and from 1987 to whole plant food, made of fruits, vegetables, grains and nuts.
Since 8 years Gabriella lives on fruitbased raw food and experiences, how species-appropriate food vitalizes, refreshes and cleans out little ailments, but also eliminates with time even bigger problems – especially in the digestive tract. Skin, hair and nails become more beautiful, yes even younger and the powers of the spirit grow. She recognizes on herself: we are wonderfully made!
Gabriella is known as a person, who does, what she says. She lives, what she found to be true and necessary. With her empiric experiences can she help other people, who also want to direct their diet as well as their life towards more healthy, natural principles.
About Dr. Douglas Graham
Advidor, lifetime athlete and raw fooder since 1978
Dr. Douglas Graham, raw foodist for over 40 years, sports and nutrition coach is one of our most loved speakers. On his very full yearly schedule, he takes the time to come to our Austrian mountains to teach us all about natural hygiene, exercise and of course the fruit based raw food lifestyle this movement is all about. Often, he is joined by his wife Rosalind and daughter Faychesca, who also have a huge wealth of experience on this journey of health as well as many other topics of great interest.
Many high class athletes confirm it to be a huge and very advantageous privilege to learn from Doug and we are truly honoured that he has become an integral part of our Festival of Fresh Fruits!
Dr. Douglas Graham Website: https://foodnsport.com
About Sylvain Romain
Sylvain Romain, a transreligious theologian and avid traveler, brings fresh wind to our events.
At home in a dozen languages and various cultures, he is a sought-after speaker. His passion is to build bridges between old sacred writings toward a mutual understanding.
We are privileged to hear his viewpoint on the Tree of Life in the middle of his busy schedule.
Everyday life
Raphael is an automotive engineer by profession and works full time for a major German car manufacturer.
In his free time, he likes to be a creative and find new 80/10/10 raw vegan recipes.
His passion is to experience the new found health and healing of people courageous enough to give 80/10/10 a proper try.
Raw Vegan
Raphael likes to share discoveries. It was only natural that he was invited by Let’s Cook Raw, a « community of perfect-health-minded people dedicated to the lowfat, plant based lifestyle ».
Discover their mission and be inspired by their creativity and outstanding culinary skills.
Collaboration
Finding local fruit is not too difficult, seaking the freshest ones is another matter… but obtaining fresh exotic fruits, now that is no small deal!
To achieve this, Raphael works together with Jurassic Fruit. And this fruitful collaboration can also benefit you. Don’t hesitate to contact him for attractive discounts.
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MONDI Bellevue Alm Gastein
Bad Gastein — Austria