Sustainable Foods and Artisan Finery - Where Healthy Food Matters
We believe you all need to understand how food has made us who we are today and how it shapes our future. We are dedicated to sourcing only the most sustainable, responsible and delicious artisan farm and manufactured food products. What sets us apart from other stores is the list of things we don't offer...like any products conta
ining high fructose corn syrup, trans fats, artificial colors and sweeteners, and synthetic growth hormones in fresh meat and dairy. We believe food should be as close to the ground as it gets, and we are proud to read the labels so you don't have to!
* NO High-Fructose Corn Syrup
* NO artificial sweeteners
* NO artificial flavors
* NO artificial preservatives
* NO artificial colors
* NO artificial fats or artificial trans fats
* NO bleached or bromated flour
We feel people have to know what is happening to our food and how they are being misled by false advertising. Our organic coffee is free from chemical pesticides and fertilizers. All of our earth friendly and healthy foods and products are created in small, fresh batches using pure natural and organic ingredients that come from the earth, not some far away lab. Our appreciation is for the plant world, better sustainability, diverse communities, local organic farming, and handmade goodies. Strong connections to customers, artisans, and farmers and keeping business as close to our backyard as we can get, is what we value the most. We take much pride in producing a product carefully made by hand that is clean, healthy, sustainable, organic, and well...GOOD for us...and the planet! The Impact of Industrial Agriculture on Our Healthy Food
Unfortunately, human interactions have negatively impacted almost all aspects of soil health-we are responsible for the degradation of more than 40% of worldwide agricultural land. What have we done to the soil? For starters, we've destabilized our soil ecosystems through the widespread and reckless use of chemicals - herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers - that destroy nearly everything in sight, except the plants themselves (many of them genetically engineered to withstand herbicides and pesticides). We end up with corn, soy, alfalfa and other crops that may appear 'healthy', but in truth, are nutrient-deficient because the nutrient-cycling quality of the soil has been destroyed. And we do it as a matter of routine, even though it's estimated that in the case of pesticides, for instance, only 0.1% of pesticides used actually interact with their targets; the rest pollute plants and soil. As any gardener knows, nitrogen is one of the three essential soil nutrients. (Potassium and phosphorous are the other two). In order for nitrogen to 'feed' plants, it must first be converted to ammonium or nitrate. Soil microbes, which are critical to the nitrogen cycle, achieve this conversion by feeding on decaying plant matter, digesting the elemental nitrogen contained in the decayed matter, and excreting nitrogen ions. The newly available nitrogen is taken up by plants, where it becomes available to humans either directly (when you eat the plant) or indirectly (through consumption of grazing animals). Our Earth Friendly Food producers are small, family-owned or artisan-operated producers. We love to support the little guy. Stay with us as we grow our store online and see how we all can stay more healthy in a way that is good for the earth and our future.
