For many, many years, the entire northern half of Indiana (from Indianapolis to Chicago) lived without a Whole Foods Market. Can you even believe that? How sad?!? Most people never knew the goodness of an entire store…an ENTIRE GROCERY STORE…filled with good, clean foods*! (*That’s not to say you still shouldn’t check labels, even on…
Category Archives: Organic Info
Crunchy Granola (And I Don’t Mean Dirty Hippie)
Somebody slap my hand because I can’t stay out of this homemade granola. I’m like a kid and a cookie jar. I talk about this like it’s a bad thing. It is, kind of. I mean, all of the ingredients are organic, healthy, whole foods, but I’m sure the calorie level is not okay when…
A Slice of Organic Life – A Is For April…And Asparagus
Longer daylight hours, warm rainy days, bits of green poking out of the hard ground…it’s finally Springtime, yo. With Spring comes all sorts of in-season produce. Off the top of your head, do you know what produce is fresh and available each month? Some of us have a slight idea: berries in the summer and…
ChicagonistaLIVE: I’m A Guest!
Hey friends! Check it out! I’ve been invited to be a guest on this week’s Chicagonista LIVE show! It’ll be taking place at the Mariano’s Halsted location this Wednesday, January 16 at 2:00 pm CST. To kick off the new year, the topic is all about getting healthy…and you know how I loves me some…
Something About A Sticker & A Number
Imagine yourself walking through a beautiful produce section of a local grocery store. Vibrant vegetable colors and sweet scents of ripening fruit tempt you to buy one of everything. You pick up a bunch of bright yellow bananas and notice a sticker that has been placed on the fruit. Now imagine that sticker to read…
Special Dinner At Earthworks Market
Ever find that special little place you love to visit and shop…the hidden gem…the place that people search for but many never find? Earthworks Market in Plymouth, Indiana is that little place for me. Locally owned, complete with friendly smiles, it’s the kind of place where they greet you by name when you walk in…
We’ve Reached a Million!
Together, we did it! Together, we set a record for comments on a food petition submitted to the FDA…one MILLION! Together, we CAN make a difference! If you have not yet signed the Just Label It petition, I encourage you to do so today. If you are not aware, the Just Label It campaign is…
The Art of Reading an Egg Carton
Remember back in the day when you could just walk into the grocery store and grab a carton of eggs? Packed in yellow, (sometimes pink or blue) styrofoam cartons, eggs were just…well…eggs. Now? *shake my head* NOW, our food system has been so manipulated that we even have to decipher egg cartons just to know…
What the…Kiwi Berries?
Tell me the truth…have you ever heard of such a thing? Never in my life had I known of a Kiwi Berry. Last week, they showed up in my organic produce box and I looked at them as if they were alien eggs (it could happen!) My first guess was they were tiny, undeveloped kiwi,…
Two Organic Certifiers No Longer Accredited
(Press Release from the United States Department of Agriculture) AMS No. 029-11 Soo Kim (202) 720-8998 Soo.kim@ams.usda.gov WASHINGTON, Mar. 2, 2011—The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today that two former organic certifiers, Certified Organic, Inc. (COI) and Guaranteed Organic Certification Agency (GOCA), are no longer accredited to the National Organic Program (NOP). As…
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