Have your purchased any fresh flowers lately? If so, there is a good chance that they were grown with lots of pesticides. If that makes you uncomfortable, you may wish to consider buying your flowers at Organic Style. I recently received a beautiful bouquet, and, now, more than a week later, they are still gracing [...]
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Higher Ground: Fair Trade Coffee
08-May-08I’ve said this before. When you purchase non-Fair Trade coffee, you are allowing coffee buyers and coffee producing companies to make huge profits at the expense of impoverished coffee farmers. Fortunately, there are increasing numbers of companies selling Fair Trade organic coffee. One of these is Higher Ground. It is 100% fair trade, organic, and [...]
Jungle Products: Amazing Oils
01-Apr-08Have you been searching for 100% organic, raw, cold pressed and extra virgin oils for baking, sautéing, and dressing your salads. Or, how about top of the line oils for your pets? You might like to visit Jungle Products. Listen to a few of the offerings.
Macadamia Nut Oil – Raw, refined, virgin, and Beyond Organic. [...]
speesees
09-Mar-08Are you looking for organic cotton baby clothing? Consider this beautiful, engaging site. speesees works with farmers in India to ensure that the cotton is grown organically. When the cotton is ready, it is “spun, knit and dyed with low-impact, environmentally-sound dyes.”
Next, the cotton is brought to a small village, where the garments are printed [...]
Crop to Cup (C2C)
23-Feb-08Coffee. It sometimes costs several dollars for a cup. But, you probably already know that in most instances the coffee farmer, who often lives a barely subsistence life, receives only a tiny fraction of that amount. All too often, numerous middlemen — between the farmer and the consumer — take a disproportion amount of the [...]
Wyman’s
14-Feb-08Family owned, Wyman’s is the largest supplier of premium wild blueberry products in the U.S. These include 15-ounce stand-up bags of quick frozen wild blueberries, 3-pound re-sealable bags of quick frozen wild blueberries, and several types of wild blueberry juice. Filled with antioxidants, the consumption of blueberries has been associated with reduced rates of [...]
Anthony for Men
06-Feb-08Though the market is filled with countless numbers of grooming products for women, the numbers for men are far more modest. One such company is Anthony for Men, which offers an allergy tested complete personal care system. Included in the products are a host of different items for the skin and hair. More recently, the [...]