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Sunday, May 3, 2009

Where to buy organic food?

By Karol Wariala

More at: Honey Dressing. Although most people have got used to buying most organic products from the hypermarket, one can always turn to an organic food store and find a wider and more comprehensive range of products. Most of the time, such stores are opened in a certain neighborhood, serving a specific geographical area. The benefits of purchasing products from an organic food store is that there is usually a family farm or a local food supplier that backs the store and provides fresh merchandise all the time. Plus, customers have the option of ordering products when they are no available, with the mention that there may be packaging and transportation fees.

Presently, you can search for an organic food store on the Internet; there are web sites that provide state maps with all the organic food stores and restaurants nearest to the customer. Then you can take your pick! Moreover, anyone can submit information about a certain facility in such directories providing contact details and directions to get to the facility.

The organic food store is complemented by the farmers market, where they sell the same kind of food: healthy, chemical-free products that are certified as organic.

Fruits and vegetables are the main choices one makes when shopping at an organic food store. The idea here is to buy stuff that is produced or grown in the same region. Regional prosperity and local economic development will thus be boosted by the preference for the products supplied by small farms run in the family.

Thus, there is a two-way efficiency in it; on the one hand you support striving local businesses and on the other you enjoy all the benefits of healthy food. There are many ways to advertise for such products. And here we should count the Community Supported Agriculture, U-Pick Up farms and farm stands that function well in the system.

Dairy products, eggs and meat are more difficult to find in a traditional organic food store, but they are often part of the commercial service. Lots of farmers provide the community with fresh products through the intermediary of a local organic food store. And this makes a really great substitute for the food produced by the industrial farms where all sorts of hormones and antibiotics are used to grow livestock and produce eggs. Fortunately, the fact that people learn about non-organic food risks, has led consumers to favor an organic food store over a supermarket. - 17269

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