Organic
How our produce rolls
Beginning in June, the first harvests of the summer start coming to market from the Southern states—Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas. That’s when the stone fruits, like peaches, plums, avocados and apricots are at their best, and ripe for the picking. At the end of June, GreenAcres begins to usher in California peaches—always well received. But…
Read MoreDress ‘em up or down, we’ve got your greens covered!
Some prefer to make their own salad dressings; others rely on the tried and true organic bottled dressings to make their tossed salads extra yummy. Whichever way you roll, you might try our Grateful Harvest Organic Dressings in six flavors: Ranch, Balsamic Vinaigrette, Bleu Cheese, Sun Dried Tomato, Classic Caesar and Raspberry Vinaigrette. Our favorite…
Read MoreMaple Hill Creamery: the grass-to-yogurt connection
We don’t know if you’ve had a chance to sample Maple Hill Creamery yogurt when we’ve demoed it in store, but it’s worth a try the next time you see Ron offering tastes to customers. Aside from its creamy consistency, and not-too-sweet taste, it’s the science behind grass-fed outcomes as opposed to grain or corn-fed…
Read MoreA visit with Lucky Star Farm’s Tonia Rupe
Tonia and Randy Rupe of Lucky Star Farms have spent years developing and caring for family-owned ranch land in Greenwood County, KS. Lucky Star sets the benchmark for humanely-treated animals and perfectly marbled meat. GreenAcres Market offers Lucky Star’s fine beef and pork to its customers in all four of its stores in Kansas. After…
Read MoreAsk the expert!
The expert in this case in Market Team member, Danna, who has worked at GreenAcres for nine years, stocks bulk, orders plants and flowers, works checkout among myriad other jobs, and she just knows what products customers ask for. Since we’re concentrating on multi vitamins today, we went looking for our know-it-all. So which ones…
Read MoreTaking the plunge with the Suja 1-Day Renewal Plan
Diet? Not I said the fly, but “renew for one day,” I can do that! That’s why I like Suja’s organic 1-day renewal program. It looks easy enough and since I work in a health food store, all I’ll have to do is buy three Suja drinks for $10 and grab my mini-meals from the…
Read MoreShake and bake with it, and they will come!
And so they have. Our GreenAcres Market customers have bought Organic Valley milk, cheese and eggs for the past 22 years because they know they taste great and they’re free of pesticides, fungicides, preservatives and added hormones. But not everyone knows we also bake and cook in our store kitchens with Organic Valley milk, cream,…
Read MoreColloidal Silver—it’s so much more than just a precious metal
Patty Spurlock, a woman who used to live in Wichita and now in Dallas, is a big fan of Colloidal Silver. Whenever she comes through town to visit her son in Salina, she and her family always stop in at GreenAcres-Bradley Fair for lunch. When we visit, I’m always curious to know about her success…
Read MoreBULK up. Save the planet!
GreenAcres shoppers have been helping themselves to our bulk department for years; but newbies may not even know a bulk section exists in any of our three markets. Take a stroll along the bulk aisles and you’ll find plexiglass bins containing all manner of bulk items from rice and quinoa to beans and nuts. There…
Read MoreVibrant Greens: To Your Health!
There’s no secret our supplement market team is keen on Green Vibrance and its sister Joint Vibrance—both from Vibrant Health. “What I like about Green Vibrance,” says Karen in our supplement department at GreenAcres-Bradley Fair, “is that it says right on the package or tub exactly what you’re getting in numbers that you can calculate.…
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