#IChooseOrganic

#IChooseOrganic for the Future

by Myra Goodman I was only 20 during the summer of 1984, when my future husband, Drew, and I moved onto the beautiful little 2-½ acre farm filled with rows of heirloom raspberries in Carmel Valley, California we would soon name Earthbound Farm. Cultivating the land and living in sync with the rhythms of nature […]

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#IChooseOrganic for my Health

By Alyssa Rimmer, Simply Quinoa  Organic used to be something that I bought because I’ve always heard it’s healthier. It wasn’t something I chose to purchase all the time, but I’d say about 90% of the food I was buying was organic. But it wasn’t until a few months ago that I really dug into the reasons […]

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#IChooseOrganic for Healthier Schools

Earthbound Farm is excited to introduce Big Green as our nonprofit partner for our #IChooseOrganic Sweepstakes. Big Green is dedicated to helping build a healthier future for kids across America. We believe in their vision of “bringing real food to millions of kids every day,” because at Earthbound we believe organic is for everyone. That’s […]

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#IChooseOrganic for Our Planet

By Davida Lederle, The Healthy Maven ❤️ Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️ If you read my 5 reasons to choose organic post you know how passionate I am about organic. I’m on a mission to educate people that organic is not a marketing term. It is a strict set of regulations that farmers must follow that ensure […]

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#IChooseOrganic for Healthy Soil

Ask any organic farmer about their most valuable asset and most will swiftly answer “My soil.” It’s the foundation of the farm…and life itself. In his book The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture, America’s poet farmer, Wendell Berry captures this truth: “The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of […]

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#IChooseOrganic for Fresh, Real Food

By Amie Valpone, The Healthy Apple I didn’t understand what organic meant years ago before I went through my 12-year journey of chronic health issues. It wasn’t until halfway through my health journey that I actually started to believe there might be something to this whole “eating organic” thing. I was skeptical, to say the least for many, many […]

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#IChooseOrganic for the Climate

You may choose organic at the grocery store, but if you’re not a farmer, you might not understand the complex ways in which organic farming methods are beneficial to the Earth’s climate. Research shows most people know that organic farming practices reduce conventional pesticides in our environment. What is often not as well understood is […]

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#IChooseOrganic for the Farmers

I’m Mark Borchard and I’m the head farmer here at Earthbound Farm. I’ve been a farmer for my entire life but have been farming organically for just under two years. Since I started, I have noticed a dramatic difference in my mindset related to what farming is. I’m a better farmer now. With organic farming, […]

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#IChooseOrganic for My Family and the Environment

By Marcie, Flavor the Moments I did one of those ancestry tests last year and was quite surprised when I reviewed the results.  I discovered that I’m more Italian than I am Greek….and I didn’t know that I was Italian at all? Today I’m embracing my newly found Italian roots with The Ultimate Italian Chopped […]

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#IChooseOrganic for Her

By Nicole Harris, Wonky Wonderful Earthbound Farm is helping to make the right decisions even easier. Not only is their organic produce nutritious, tasty and affordable. It is also good for the environment. “By making the decision to buy organic, not only are we choosing to keep our family healthier, we are choosing to keep […]

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#IChooseOrganic for Bees, Butterflies and Birds

Love fresh fruits and vegetables? You can thank a pollinator—the bees, butterflies, birds and even bats that move pollen from one flower to another, allowing plants to bear fruit and re-seed. While today, the majority of seeds for our foodshed are planted by farmers, pollinators are still responsible for one in every three bites of […]

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#IChooseOrganic for Chemical Reduction

That’s how it all started 35 years ago. Our founders, two young would-be farmers, who were also passionate environmentalists, decided they’d find a way to farm without the potent chemicals commonly used in farming. Lacking a background in farming but enchanted by the 2½-acre Eden they’d landed in, they instinctively wanted to protect their little […]

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