Why Go Organic?

It is difficult to know where to start when discussing the problems we face as a planet, so I won’t. Solutions are less depressing. The pressure is increasing to be ‘part of the solution’, but where does an individual start?

When faced with the massive inequality inherent in recycling when a massive new coal-fired power station  is built every week in China, how can ‘one little me’ make a difference?

An excellent place to start which leads to a multitude of positive consequences is to buy organic produce.
Firstly, you are eating healthy food, grown in mineral rich soil by passionate individuals with minimal environmental degradation. You will be ingesting fewer chemicals, lessening your risk of ill health and potentially preventing a future burden upon the health system.

When you feel healthy and connected, it becomes easier to continue to be motivated to make even more commitment to being ‘part of the solution’. (Recycling, re-using shopping bags, walking and cycling instead of taking the car, carpooling, public transport… we all know the list)
By purchasing these organic fruit, vegetables and products, you become an important component in the management, maintenance and improvement of the physical environment.
 
Organic farming and agriculture involves reverence for a wise ecosystem, promoting healthy soils and environments for insects, microorganisms and farm animals and aims to support and improve the ecology we all share. You automatically become a champion to the bees and worms!
Wherever possible, our stores seek to source our produce as locally as possible, so your purchase is benefiting your local or national economy.
Eating fresh produce in season help us stay in touch with our environment and cycles of nature, and contributes to general good health (consider those high vitamin C autumn blessings including feijoas and mandarins)
Feeling part of a community and supporting stores and producers has recognized and diverse positive benefits to society in general.

Consider the humble egg. An organic egg, laid by a free ranging happy hen has profound food value and comes at minimal expense to the environment (although there is environmental impact from transportation). If you don’t have the space or means to run hens in your back yard (or apartment balcony), then the next best option is to buy free range organic. Battery hens live a ‘life’ of misery, and I am unable to imagine that much nutritional benefit can be derived from a malnourished and highly stressed ‘production unit’ (i.e. hen). Battery eggs may be cheap, but they are not worth it!
When you buy organic, you check-in with your extended community of humans, plants, animals and the environment we share. It may not seem like a big contribution to ‘saving the planet’, but in fact it is.
We would like to thank and acknowledge you, our customer for being a part of our community of stores, and for supporting and allowing us to be a part of your world.

Every purchase based on respect for the health of the planet does it’s bit toward balancing out the negative impact of that new power station. Power to the people!