Where can I find organic food?

Farm gate

Some farmers and gardeners sell their product at the farm. Other farmers and gardeners may deliver product if you pre-arrange this. Check with them first to see if they provide these services. If not, they will gladly tell you where their product is available. For a list of organic product and farms visit: http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/app68/
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Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

The consumer pre-orders boxes of seasonal produce from a farm for weekly pick-up. GO member Sparrow's Nest near Opal Alberta offers this service.

Home Delivery Services

Many businesses now offer home delivery of organic product right to your door. GO board member Darrel Graham of Farm Fresh offers this service in Edmonton and Calgary.

Farmers Markets

Most farmers markets in Alberta have some vendors of organic product. For a partial listing visit: http://www.albertamarkets.com/vendors/vendors_organic.asp

Retail Stores

Start with your local organic and natural health food store such as GO members Jim Shoepp of Homegrown in Stony Plain and Marcie Rooks of Golden Harvest Natural Health Store in Whitecourt. GO member Gwen Simpson has a store at Inspired Market Gardens near Carvel, open summers only.

Medium sized natural health retail outlets such as GO member Community Natural Foods in Calgary carry plenty of Alberta organic product.

GO Membership Markets

Please check the Membership Markets at goingorganic.ca for details about GO members' businesses and services. If you are a member of GO, make sure you contact Gwen Simpson at gwen@inspiredmarketgardens.com to get listed on Membership Markets.

Why should I buy Alberta product?

Local fare tastes fresh. Supporting local farmers and businesses keeps farmers in business and supports the local economy. Get to know the farmers who farm your food-you will be amazed at the hard work, wisdom and breadth of characters!

How can I grow my own food?

Whether you have a balcony, a deck, or one thousand acres, you can grow some of your own food and herbs. Start small, with something you know you can grow-herbs on the windowsill or a small plot of hardy vegetables like carrots and peas. You will be rewarded by the joy of growing good food and savings at the dinner table.

There are many resources available about organic gardening. Most farmers and gardeners are happy to share their wisdom, especially if it is not a busy time of year for them. For a listing of organic producers in Alberta visit: http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/app68/organics

Why should I go Organic?

Ten Reasons to Go Organic
http://www.ota.com/organic_and_you/10reasons.html

Nuclear FREE
Here is a form letter you can cut and paste into your word program to send to your elected representative also some websites with more information on nuclear power.

Attention Elected Members;
I am a certified organic grower using environment friendly sustainable agriculture to produce healthy chemical free food. I am very concerned with the proposal to Generate Nuclear Power in Alberta.

Canadian Nuclear Standards are not equivalent to other countries; this will jeopardize our ability to market organic food worldwide.

Our stressed environment cannot handle radioactive contamination in our air and water. Future Generation’s DO NOT need 4000 years of contamination with spent fuel.

We need the support of Government to keep producing healthy food and have a nuclear free sustainable renewable environment.

Concerned citizen


- We need to be concerned about air and water radioactive contamination.
- Radium released from Uranium mining and transport.
- Tritium radioactive hydrogen
- Strontium  90 - emission gathers in milk
- Cesium 137 emission gathers in muscle tissue
- Canadian standard changed in 1993 because of high tritium emission by Candu reactor
- Canadian standard 7000 bequils per litre
- Europe standards 20 – 100 bequils per litre
- All standards are higher In Canada
- The largest problem, is spent fuel very radioactive 10 years stored in water to cool then no safe place disposal
- Germany did a health study & are moving to decommission all reactors in the next 2 decades
- Guelph University study proved inpact on plant life with tritium emission
- Deformed plants near reactors, stillbirth in animals.
- We can generate environmentally friendly power much cheaper with sun, wind, water, clean coal, hydrogen integrated bio refineries that is sustainable forever
 www.ccnr.org, www.nuclearfreealberta.ca, www.pembina.org, www.beyondnuclear.or, http://nonewnukes.ukriver.net, www.friendsofbruce.ca/index/htm, www.nirs.org