Not exact matches
The Challenge: Howard's is a
small Kansas City grocery
store, with a twist: The
store, which opened in 2012, sells memberships for $ 60 per year; members get a door code allowing them to access the
store 24/7 and pick from the locally grown produce and
organic foods in stock.
Stuart Reid, executive director of the
Food Co-op Initiative, a Minnesota - based nonprofit foundation that advises cooperative grocery
stores, says he thinks Howard's
Organics move to accept credit cards is a smart one — as most shoppers in today expect that from grocery
stores, whether large or
small.
They visited
organic, health and specialty
food stores and
small restaurants, offering samples and writing up tiny orders of $ 40 or $ 50 or $ 100.
Once found only in
small independent
stores, today
organic food products fill entire aisles at major supermarket chains.
It's important to note that due to mass processing, many of the almond butters you find in grocery or health
food stores will not contain this high amount of vitamin E. Stick with almond butter made in
small batches from fresh,
organic almonds to get the highest nutritional content.
Cowgirl Creamery, a
small food producer in Marin County, Calif., was elated when Whole Foods came calling to buy Cowgirl's
organic triple - cream cheese for 45 of its
stores.
I also looked at jarred baby
food while at the grocery
store yesterday, and a
small jar of
organic carrots (2.5 oz) was $ 0.85, which works out to be $ 0.34 per ounce.
My wife tries to buy
organic foods at
smaller food stores that tend to be more expensive than regular grocery
stores.
Having said all that, there is something of a revival of farming — not mega midwestern agriculture, but
small farms, many of them
organic, growing
food for local sale to restaurants, farmers» markets, CSAs and some grocery
stores.
The Life Pod is a
small free standing structure that implements solar panels as a roof surface providing dry covered shelter and water catchment, the water off the solar roof is
stored in rain barrels, on the south side there is a Hydroponic
food system mounted that produces fresh
organic supply of greens, on the north side of the structure is a
small utility closet that houses the solar battery and all the
food system equipment, on the side of the utility closet there are 4 electrical outlets and an EV charging station, you can run the AC power over to your home or business and power any of your electrical needs with the off grid energy from the Life Pod.
As much as I like to grow my own
food, and to support
small local
organic growers, my family and I still depend on the grocery
store for many of the things we eat, especially in the off season.