Discount organic food store eyes Alpharetta (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) A discount organic food store could open in Alpharetta before the year's end. Natural Foods Warehouse has signed a letter of intent to take about 20,000 square feet in the Silos at North Farm Marketplace. The Silos shopping center is a renovation of an existing center that once housed an Ingles grocery, at the intersection of Crabapple and Houze roads. The shopping center is one of several ......more...Tight-fisted shoppers develop taste for store brands (The Palm Beach Post) That nondescript can of green beans that quietly rested next to the towering Green Giant is stepping out of the shadows....more... Organic Garden Offers Couple More Than Just Food (East Aurora Advertiser) Sometimes the benefits of growing your own organic garden reach well beyond that of nutrition and a healthy diet. For one Marilla couple, gardening-being outside and working with the earth--has become a passion that brings them closer together....more... Day care founded by Hall natives takes green to a new level Organic meals, energy efficiency and eco-friendly cleaners ... (The Gainesville Times) At FIO360 , an eco-friendly early care center, organic wool rugs from New Zealand, chef-prepared organic meals and environmentally-safe cleaning products are just the beginning....more... Green Spot an eco-friendly convenience store (Dallas Morning News) The Green Spot Market and Fuels is the traditional convenience store turned on its head. Lottery tickets and cigarettes are absent from the counter, but you can purchase fresh flowers and sushi. Slushees are replaced by freshly brewed hibiscus mint tea....more... InSeason makes getting real local food in Boston less annoying (Bostonist) Problems with getting real "local" food in Boston: a) Most people with jobs can't get to the local farmer's market before it closes at 5pm or 6pm b) Whole Foods is expensive and doesn't have 100% local stuff, and sometimes you can't tell which is which c) Other "mystery" delivery methods which aim to support local and/or organic, such as Community Supported Agriculture programs and ......more... Wegmans Growing Its Own Organic (R News) With more consumers interested in buying organic foods, the Rochester area's largest supermarket chain has decided to do something to make them more available. Wegmans developed a farm that is used as a testing ground to learn more about organic growing....more... Evanston Trader Joe's talks under way (Evanston Review) A developer took a major step Monday toward bringing a Trader Joe's grocery store to a downtown Evanston site where a supermarket last operated some 20 years ago. ...more... Inflated food prices hurting upscale supermarkets (Concord Monitor) Whole Foods Market Inc. - or, as it's become better known recently, No. 48 in the bestselling book Stuff White People Like - has problems. Chiefly, there are fewer people, white or otherwise, interested in paying a premium for its ethically cultivated, fair-trade, organic gourmet fare....more... |