Dressing Inspiration for Salad Slayers

You’re already confident about your salad-making prowess and you throw down 3, 4, 5 salads a week, always with your own dressing, never store-bought. These ideas are just for you, oh wise one. Two words: Diced Shallot. You probably already know this, but adding diced shallot to your basic vinaigrette transforms it from simple delicious […]

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Spark Up Your Organic Salad Love with these Simple Ingredients

Tips, Tricks, & Hacks:  For Salad Month, we’re sharing step-saving skills to level up your salad game. We know you love salads. You don’t have to prove anything to us. But we also know that many of you would gladly eat more if only it were simpler to achieve super yummy status. Don’t get us […]

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Bold Ingredients for the Intrepid Salad Slayer

We know you don’t need us to tell you what to put in your salad. But just in case you haven’t thought about these delectable delectable add-ins lately…here’s a little gas for salad fire. Fresh herbs. Not just chopped finely or dried in your dressing, but whole leaves. Fresh basil, Italian parsley, dill, cilantro, mint, […]

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Green-on-Green: Growing Organic Spinach with Solar Power

It’s no secret: farming requires power — brain power and power from energy. Even From the day we started farming in a 2 1/2-acre backyard farm, we’ve always looked for ways to do what we thought was the right thing. On day one, that meant growing our heirloom raspberries, culinary herbs, and baby greens organically. […]

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It’s Earth Day — Let’s Celebrate!

Setting aside a day to think about how we can protect the planet In 1970 (that’s just 14 years before Earthbound Farm got started), Denis Hayes was a graduate student at Harvard who worked with US Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin to launch Earth Day (April 21, 1970) as a sort of national teach-in about […]

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Mission Improbable: Delicious, healthy, homemade hot pockets

We love frozen, microwavable Hot Pockets and you should, too.😉 Not really. You didn’t really think so, did you? But you know what we do love? Craveable convenience. And the concept of a hot pocket filled with organic deliciousness. We are working with one of our favorite chefs anywhere – Chef Joel Gamoran – and […]

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Three Women in Organic History You Need to Know Now

March is Women’s History Month and if you appreciate the ability to grab some organic spring mix, baby spinach, arugula, or other organic salad greens pretty much any day in any supermarket, you need to know that these three women each had a big hand in making that possible. So raise your fork to these […]

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The Super Soil of Organic Farming

Warning: Nerdy Dirt Details Ahead. Proceed at Your Own Risk 😊 It’s difficult to overemphasize how vital healthy soil is to life on Earth. Think about it. Crops and other plants grow in it, not only providing food, shelter, and beauty but also oxygen. In addition to being a critical piece of our overall ecosystem, […]

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The Heart of the Matter: Why We Love Organic…and You

Happy Valentine’s Day or Galentine’s Day or just another February #SaladSunday. Today — and every day — we give you our hearts. Figuratively, because we appreciate every last one of you who supports organic farming and all that means for our shared future. And also literally, as we harvest and send you our sweet and […]

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You Need a Rocket in Your Salad. Here’s Why.

We’re not talking jet fuel, here. We’re talking arugula AKA rocket AKA roquette AKA rucola (no need to yodel, we didn’t say Ricola® 😉). Do you arugula? If you do, you know all about its bold, peppery, nutty scrumptiousness. But did you know that as far back as the Roman Empire, arugula was considered an […]

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Our Journey to Zero Waste Certification

Last year, we shared with you some great news: that our family had earned the U.S. Green Building Council TRUE (Total Resource Use and Efficiency) Platinum certification at three of our facilities. The TRUE certification program is an assessor-based zero waste program that rates how well facilities perform in minimizing their non-hazardous, solid wastes and […]

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Chef Joel Gamoran Helps Us Get Excited about Cooking at Home

We have been big fans of Joel Gamoran for quite some time. He’s kind of a unicorn in the culinary world – a talented chef who is most happy when he’s helping everyday home cooks figure out they can do amazing things in their own kitchens. Kind of like the magician who’s willing to tip […]

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