They are so small but it is easy to unestimate the environmental impact of your baby. Discovered a handy 100 tip guide on having babies the green way!
- Don’t go overboard on gear: Only buy what you really need to cut down on baby stuff.
- Start an eco-friendly baby registry: Register on eco-friendly sites to get your little one’s life started off green.
Northern HarvestKenyon Hall, Croft, Warrington, WA3 7ED
Tel: 01942 608299
Fax: 01942 608329
Website: www.northernharvest.co.uk
Email: enquiry@northernharvest.co.uk
The freshest and tastiest local foods from the North West delivered to your door.
Eva´s OrganicsMedburn, Milton, Brampton, Cumbria, CA8 1HS
Tel: 016977 41906
Fax: 016977 41205
Website: www.evabotanicals.co.uk
Email: debbie@evabotanicals.co.uk
Growers and suppliers of organic fruit and vegetables making weekly home deliveries around north and west Cumbria, west Northumberland and south Dumfriesshire.
Howbarrow : Everything OrganicCartmel, Grange over Sands, Cumbria, LA11 7SS
Tel/Fax: 015395 36330
Website: www.howbarroworganic.co.uk
Email: enquiries@howbarroworganic.co.uk
An organic farm in Cartmel, South Lake District offering fruit and vegetables, oils, and bed and breakfast accommodation.
Mansergh, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, LA6 2EN
Tel: 01524 271397
Fax: 01524 272219
Website: www.manserghhall.co.uk
Email: info@manserghhall.co.uk
Mansergh Hall Farm is a family run farm who retail and wholesale free range and fairly traded produce both locally and nationally. As our farm environmental impacts are of the utmost importance to our business practices and we commit to continuous improvement. Nationwide delivery service.
Melmerby, Penrith, Cumbria, CA10 1HE
Tel: 01768 881811 / 01768 881848
Website: www.village-bakery.com
Email: info@village-bakery.com
Organic bread and cakes including wheat, gluten and dairy free plus a restaurant in Penrith, Lake District.
Based in Chorlton, Manchester
Tel: 07511 554 353 / 0161 881 9770
Website: www.digfood.co.uk
We are a Manchester-based delivery service that provides South and Central Manchester with quality organic fruit, vegetables, dairy products, bread and more.
Fetish For Food
Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester, M25 1BD
Tel: 0161 798 5558
Website: www.fetishforfood.com
Email: enquiries@fetishforfood.com
Fetish for Food sells organic meat, vegetables and other produce. Delivery within 3 miles of the shop.
Croftwood Square, Martland Mill, Wigan WN5 0LG
Tel: 08458 333 135
Fax: 08458 333 136
Website: www.thefarmshed.co.uk
Email: tastyfood@thefarmshed.co.uk
We work with small organic farmers and producers from Lancashire and Cheshire.
11 The Yetts, Tarbolton, Ayrshire, KA5 5NT
Tel: 01292 541369
Website: www.organicgrowing.com
E mail: info@organicgrowing.com
Soil Association certified grower of Organic vegetables, fruit and herbs. They run an Organic Box Scheme from Scotland delivering direct to homes in Ayrshire, Renfrewshire and Glasgow.
Knockreoch, St Johns Town of Dalry, Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway, DG7 3XS
Tel: 01644 430354
Website: www.scottishorganiclamb.co.uk
Certified organic lamb delivered straight to your door.
20 Woodlands Road, Charing Cross, Glasgow G3 6UR
Tel: 0141 353 3278
Fax: 0141 353 3078
Website: www.grassrootsorganic.com/
Email: grassrootsorganic@yahoo.co.uk
Large organic shop and cafe.
Mollinsburn OrganicsTel: 07847 181 063
Website: www.mollinsburnorganics.com
Email: order@mollinsburnorganics.com
Mollinsburn Organics can provide you with a wide variety of certified organic produce. You can order online, by telephone or shop with them in person at their Mollinsburn shop.
You can fill your own box with a vast array of organic produce, including fruit, vegetables, wholefoods, meat & poultry and dairy products.
Atholl Glens LtdMains of Killiechangie Farm, Pitlochry, Perth and Kinross, PH16 5NB
Tel: 01796 481482
Fax: 01796 482297
Website: www.athollglens.co.uk
E-mail: info@athollglens.co.uk
Atholl Glens Organic Beef and Lamb are produced by a farming co-operative on the Atholl Estates in Highland Perthshire, one of the UK’s largest special protection areas. With the freedom to graze on the virtually wild landscape the cattle and lambs produce meat that is a real pleasure to cook and eat.
Damhead32a Damhead, Old Pentland Road, Edinburgh EH10 7EA
Tel: 0131 445 7425
All fresh produce and groceries at Damhead are 100% organic. They believe organic is best for your health, and best for our land.
Shop for all your groceries online and have them delivered to your door. They offer a flexible and friendly service.
Grow WildUnit 8 Block 3, Whiteside Industrial Estate, Bathgate, West Lothian, EH48 2RX
Tel: 0845 226 3393
Fax: 01506 656 543
Website: www.growwild.co.uk
Email: sales@growwild.co.uk
They supply an extensive range of organic groceries, including locally sourced fresh produce, Mediterranean fruit and vegetables, award winning organic meats and cheeses, fantastic organic wines, organic dairy products and store-cupboard goodies, toiletries and environmentally friendly household products…. the list goes on…
They deliver to your door in Edinburgh, Glasgow and throughout Central Scotland.
South Cobbinshaw, West Calder, West Lothian EH55 8LQ
Tel: 01501 785436 / 07931 738767
Website: www.thewholeshebag.com
Email: thewholeshebag@aol.com
The Wholeshebag delivers fresh, tasty organic fruit and vegetables throughout the central belt and lowlands of Scotland every week
Globally data centres utilise enough electricity to power millions of homes. With this in mind many people are turning to green hosting to demonstrate their part in living a greener lifestyle. Back when A Green Life began they were significantly more expensive – but with the market opening they are becoming far more economically viable and of course, more achievable for those of us on a smaller budget.
Personally I love Hostgator – although they are not the greenest host by far they suit me. They manage to offer low cost reseller hosting (which I need owing to the fact I host sites of my own, friends and design clients – over 30 so far) with a greenish edge (130% wind powered!). If you are interested to hear my thoughts on them – check here.
For more suggestions on Green Hosting check Green Web Hosts.
This weeks featured producer is one we have real personal experience of, they supplied our fruit and vegetables by their superb box scheme when we resided in the area a few years ago. Based at St Helens Farm in Tadcaster, The Organic Pantry have developed a fine reputation for quality of their organic produce. They deliver regular boxes to
Leeds, Bradford, York, Sheffield, Peak District amongst others.
Every week they stoffer a comprehensive delivery service straight to your door. They grow over 50 different varieties of vegetables themselves on the farm and always use seasonal produce in their organic veg boxes when possible. One of the most wonderful things about the box schemes was the sheer variety of vegetables on often – and quite often items were included that are no longer available in supermarkets. I have some really wonderful times experimenting with the ingredients they provided.
If you are within the area you might also like to call in at their farm shop – one of the most beautiful traditional style stores I have visited in a long time. It is a regular treature trove of organic produce – dairy, meats, whatever your pleasure it on their shelves – and very reasonably priced too. It really is a joy, one sheldom experienced in the cold hard factory style stores so common today.
The Organic Pantry is located at St Helens Farm, Newton Kyme, Tadcaster in North Yorkshire.
Our friends in Wimbledon, London recommended this weeks featured producer of the week – for their astounding service and range of organic produce.
They are made special purely and simply because they do their best to source British produce – and never air freight. Beautiful quality organic produce is delivered to your door and they even run a fruit & veg box scheme – which our friends advice us is absolutely superb.
There prices are competitive too – with a weeks worth of fruit and veg starting at £10.95 for one person – right through to a large family box for just £22.95.
Check their site out at www.abelandcole.co.uk
I have very fond memories of my brief respite living with the Findhorn Community. Most of these originate from my time exploring the alcoves of this wonderful little store.
Within its confines you can find the best of organic foods from local producers and from further shores. Local organic cheeses, breads (my favourite will always be their home baked spelt bread) and organic whiskeys!
Located at the entrance to the famous Findhorn eco-village, the Phoenix has been serving the local and visiting community for over 20 years. Beginning life as a specialist new age shop the Phoenix has evolved over the years into a thriving community owned business. An award winning Food store, full service Apothecary and Bookstore, crafts, gifts and music jostle together on shelves packed from floor to ceiling.
I consider myself blessed to have spent sometime living there. It introduced me to new concepts of living green, introduced me to some new exotic fruits and vegetables, and gave me some memories I will always treasure. Check out their website, online store and, if you are ever in the area of Forres / Findhorn, be sure to call in!
We are introducing a new section to our blog, highlighting those companies that go that extra mile in providing either eco friendly, green or organic products. Our blog has always aimed to assist others to live that little bit greener without the hassle.
The first of these producers is none other than Devon Rose, a family owned organic meat producer.
The Dean Family has long been synonymous with the provision of fine meats throughout the West Country. We have been farming, gamekeeping, butchering and catering since the 1800′s. Each item has been carefully created with the attention only years of experience can bring. In fact we are so proud of our foods we challenge you to find better. After all we specifically avoid those processes and additives which, whilst highly profitable for the producer, can be detrimental to fresh quality. (Devon Rose)
With strong emphasis placed on welfare and eco friendly production they are one of the best alternatives for those green enthusiasts who wish to continue to eat meat products. All products come from animals which have been naturally reared. They have a firm no policy to antibiotics and additives, a very firm yes to natural growth, free range living and feed.
I have been a customer two or three times in the past, and they have always provided superb products at an affordable price. I recommend them highly. I especially recommend their Christmas Hampers.
To check out their full range of products please visit their website.
This post represents the true opinion of this sites administration and is not sponsored.
Unlike TreeHugger I have never even contemplated apologising for the graphic imagery below. If you eat meat you have a duty to yourself to find out where it came from and, more importantly, how it was reared and produced.
When I wrote about Trace Ramsey of Cricket Bread‘s photo essay of a hog butchery workshop in New York, opinions were divided between those who saw it as an important step in understanding your food, through to those who viewed it as little different to any other kind of animal exploitation. But the discussion was an important one, so we thought we’d share some more of Trace’s photos of the weekend event. (Via TreeHugger)
Image credit: Trace Ramsey/Cricket Bread
Its easy when all your meat comes in conveniently pre-packaged containers. “Its not from an animal after all, its from Asda!”
How many kids don´t actually know where pork or chicken comes from? How many of you prefer not to think about it? Its convenient not to. But you are not doing yourselves any favours by remaining in ignorance.
An excellent point came from my twitter feed the other day “just because something may be natural does not make it right”. Whilst we do not condone those who continue to eat meat (not all our contributors are vegetarian or vegan – we are in fact a very mixed bunch). This is a matter of personal choice. However we would always advise our readers to investigate the source of their meat. Try and keep to buying ethically reared or organic meat. Whilst we appreciate that not everyone is in a situation where they can afford to be so choosy – but you can eat less and supplement with pulses, vegetables and other wholesome products. Not only will it be better for the environment, but it will be a whole lot better for you!
Remember we owe it to ourselves and our children to know all the facts – today.
A Green Life would like to wish all its visitors a very Merry Christmas & a Happy Holidays. We´re atheist here at A Green Life but we also like to honour the beliefs of others.
Always remember even at this festive time being as green as you can be is still important. You don´t have to be a martyr to save the planet.
Above all, have a great holidays!
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