Local, nutricious and delicious
Nov. 9th | Posted by Nicky
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- Urban Harvest delivery – all organic and/or local.
One of our strategies as new parents is to simplify and make life a little easier. So, despite being on EI, (which came through this week! yahoo!) we pay for a housekeeper each week, and also have a food delivery service.
OK, so the housekeeper is a luxury! but I think the grocery delivery actually SAVES us money.
We subscribe to Urban Harvest, which is a local green grocery delivery service. All the fruits and vegetables are local and/or certified organic… you pick and choose what you want in your box each week from a wide variety of yummy choices. Or if you don’t pick a sleelection just shows up. Then Tuesday night we get a knock at the door and voila! there is the food. You can also add in local organic dairy, bread honey and a few other products as well. Best of all, you place your order each week and pay on-line. Pretty cool, eh? All for $33 a week. PLUS, we know we are supporting local farmers, cutting down on carbon (we only grocery shop once every two weeks now), using less packaging and giving our kids the best possible produce we can get.
Lots of communities have these services… if you’ve ever thought about it, but weren’t sure if it is worth it – give it a try!
Vancouver: www.greenearthorganics.com www.organicsathome.com www.spud.ca
Calgary: www.freshorganics.ca www.spud.ca
Edmonton, Okotoks, High River, and Airdrie: www.freshorganics.ca
We used Spud.ca when we still lived in Surrey and didn’t have a car. LOVED it! (And I think once I’m back at work, we may have to test Calgary’s Spud service too.)
good for you!! it is soooo important to do what we can to simplify our lives so that we can spend our time/energy on the things that are most important! I’m really hoping to take part in a new pilot organic delivery here…hopefully there will be enough interest so it will stick around!
I have been thinking of trying a similar service… not so much local produce here in mid-winter mind you so it’s pricier.
and hooray for the EI finally kicking in!
Even my tiny community of Invermere has a similar service – except you don’t get to pick and choose. Still, we used it last year for a while and it was great. It didn’t work out for us because we have special dietary needs (ie, basically no fruit, all veg, and the bin was half and half), but we still make every effort to shop local. And the grocery stores are starting to catch on. This week my local grocery started carrying a brand of frozen perogies made in Cranbrook alongside the Cheemo’s. Personally, I’m willing to pay the extra dollar to employ local people, use local produce (the potatoes used in them are local, too, so that keeps some of our farmers in business), and reduce the carbon footprint of my purchase by a lot. Well, I would, if I didn’t just make my own perogies. But you get the point. When I can’t make my own perogies, bread, pasta (etc.), I’m glad there’s a local option I don’t have to feel guilty about. If I’m worried about the product, the wonder of it being local is that I can go to the source and check it out!