Milk customers, please note that Avalon will no longer issue bottle deposit refunds for bottles returned with milk in them. Please remember to recycle the caps in your blue box and rinse your milk bottles very well before returning them to us.
If any of your bottles are dirty when we pick up, we will not be able to refund your bottle deposits on any of the bottles returned that week. Please call Melissa in the office (604-708-2345) if you have any questions about this policy.
NEW YEAR REMINDERS
As everyone returns from holidays and settles back into their routines, we wish to offer the following reminders to make sure that Green Earth Organics has smooth deliveries and that you get your bin of delicious produce just the way you want it. Let's all start the New Year with great new habits!
The selection of produce changes weekly. Changes to the contents of the following week's bin are made every Thursday afternoon to both our hotline (604-708-5969) and our website.
You are able to make up to four substitutions per delivery. The deadline for all substitutions, cancellations and additional item requests is 9 AM the day prior to your delivery.
If you enjoy one of our wonderful grocery items, consider placing it on standing order. You can choose to have it with every delivery or with every second delivery, and you will save 5% every time! To set up a standing order, email the office at info@greenearthorganics.com or call us at 604-708-2345.
We offer several convenient payment options. Using a Visa or MasterCard, or being set up with Direct Debit, means that you never risk missing a payment. If you choose to pay by cash or cheque, please remember that payment is due upon delivery.
Please place your empty bins out in a safe area on the morning of your delivery for the driver to collect.
If you have any questions or concerns, you can reach a customer service representative at 604-708-2345. The office is open from 8 AM to 4 PM from Monday to Thursday, and from 8 AM to 2 PM on Friday.
Green Earth Organics is proud to donate 10% of all profits to local charities and community groups.
Green Earth Organics Inc. is a home and office certified organic grocery and natural product delivery service. We have a wide selection of 100% Certified Organic fruit, vegetables, and other grocery products. We also carry a growing list of environmentally friendly products that make it easier for our customers to tread lighter on our planet. This blog offers exiting information on organic food and healthy eating habits.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
10 Reasons to Go Organic
- Protect Future Generations
Children receive four times the exposure than an adult to at least eight widely used cancer-causing pesticides in food. The food choice you make now will impact your child's health in the future. - Prevent Soil Erosion
The Soil Conservation Service Estimates that more than three billion tons of topsoil are eroded from the United States croplands each year. That means soil is eroding seven times faster than it is built up naturally. Soil is the foundation of the food chain in organic farming. But in conventional farming the soil is used more as a medium for holding plants in a vertical position so they can be chemically fertilized. As a result, American and Canadian farms are suffering from the worst soil erosion in history. - Protect Water Quality
Water makes up two-thirds of our body mass and covers three-fourths of the planet. Despite its importance, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), estimates pesticides (some cancer-causing) contaminate the ground water in 38 states, polluting the primary source of drinking water for more than half the country's population. - Save Energy
Farms have changed drastically in the last three generations, from the family based small businesses dependent on human energy to large scale factory farms highly dependent on fossil fuels. Modern farming methods uses more petroleum than any other single industry, consuming 12 percent of the country's total energy supply. More energy is now used to produce synthetic fertilizers than to till, cultivate, and harvest all the crops in the United States. Organic farming is still mainly based on labour-intensive practices such as weeding by hand and using green manures and crop covers rather than synthetic inputs. Organic produce also tends to travel a shorter distance from the farm to your plate. - Keep Chemicals off Your Plate
Many pesticides approved for use by the EPA were registered before extensive research linking these chemicals to cancer and other diseases had been established. Now the EPA considers that 60% of all herbicides, 90% of all fungicides and 30% insecticides are carcinogenic. A 1987 National Academy of Sciences report estimate that pesticides might cause an extra 1.4 million cancer cases among Americans over their lifetimes. The bottom line is that pesticides are poisons designed to kill living organisms, and can also be harmful to humans. In addition to cancer, pesticides are implicated in birth defects, nerve damage and genetic mutation. - Protect Farm Workers Health
A National Cancer Institute study found that farmers exposed to herbicides had a greater factor of six, than non-farmers of contracting cancer. In California, reported pesticide poisonings among farm workers have risen an average of 14% a year since 1973, and doubled between 1975 and 1985. Field workers suffer the highest rates of occupational illness in the state. Farm workers health also is a serious problem in developing nations, where pesticides can be poorly regulated. An estimated 1 million people are poisoned annually by pesticides. Several of the pesticides banned from use in the United States are still manufactured here for export to other countries. - Help Small Farmers
Although more and more large scale farms are making the conversion to organic practices, most organic farms are small independently owned and operated family farms of less than 100 acres. It's estimated that the United States has lost more than 650,000 family farms in the past decade. With the US Department of Agriculture predicting that half of this country's farm production will come from 1% of farms by the year 2000. Organic farming could become one of the few hopes left for family farms. - Support a True Economy
Although organic food might seem more expensive than conventional foods, conventional food prices do not reflect hidden cost borne by taxpayers, including nearly $74 billion in federal subsidies in 1988. Other hidden costs include pesticide regulation and testing, hazardous waste disposal and clean up, and environmental damage. - Promote Biodiversity
Mono cropping is the practice of planting large plots of land with the same crop year after year. While this approach tripled farm production between 1950 and 1970, the lack of natural diversity of plant life has left the soil lacking in natural minerals and nutrients. To replace the nutrients, chemical fertilizers are used, often in increasing amounts. - Taste Better Flavour
There's a good reason many chefs use organic foods in their recipes. They taste better. Organic farming starts with the nutrients of the soil which eventually leads to the nourishment of the plant and ultimately our palates.
Although this is an American study, the situation in Canada isn't very different.
Excerpted from an article by Sylvia Tawse, Organic Times, Spring 1992.
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