Interested in Living a More Sustainable Life? Consider becoming a member of The Growing Green Co-op! Member benefits include participation in a state-wide delivery of sustainable goods - biofuels, local produce, organic bulk foods, raw food to go boxes, toxic free house cleaning products, organic linens, eco-friendly body care lines and other "green" products/services will be delivered to co-op members state-wide starting this July that will grow our local economy.
By buying and eating organic foods we are shaping the world that we want to live in for all future generations to come. We maintain control of our food system as well as a connection to where our food comes from. 70,000 new chemicals have been introduced into the market just the last 100 years. Many of these end up in our food. In fact, the average American consumes 14 pounds a year just from additives like artificial food colorings, flavorings, emulsifiers and preservatives; 2 pounds of the 14 are synthetic chemicals from residues on conventional food such as pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, hormones and heavy metals. As a result of our conventional diets, each of us have an average of 500 manmade chemicals circulating in our blood. Children are especially at risk because they are smaller and have developing metabolic systems.
