Guest guest Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 I live in a medium-sized city (around 150,000 people) and I recently found out that there is a small, independent farm store in a little town about a 40-minute drive from me that has home delivery of organic produce. But I've never seen the service advertised and only found out via an acquaintance who uses it. It could be these things are around more than we realize, and just aren't very visible. I've only ever popped into that store once or twice when I happened to be driving through the town on the way somewhere else, and I hadn't known they delivered. In case there's anyone else out there who lives in my neck of the woods -- the store is called Pfenning's Organic and it is in St. Agatha, Ontario (Canada). They deliver weekly to Waterloo, Kitchener, Cambridge, Guelph, Brantford, Stratford, Paris, and Elmira for a $5 fee. http://www.pfenningsorganic.com/ And -- I'm so excited -- there's a vegan variety store opening in Kitchener in June! It's always seemed like natural products etc. were something I had to order online, mainly from the States, not available anywhere around here. That's changing quickly. Heather (in Waterloo, Ontario) Paul Falvo wrote: > If that's a disrespectful question, then this is a pretty civil list > ... > > Sorry if my post was vague. When I lived in Toronto, there were several > companies offering home delivery of organic and non-organic food. My > favourite was a service that offered a weekly box of fresh local organic > produce. Packaged goods like soy milk was also available. > > Halifax has one such service. > > No such luck where I live now (sub-arctic!). But some grocery stores > have delivery service. Mostly I am in the same situation as Terry these > days -- watching the sell-by dates at our local Co-op! > > Because I am far from the people asking about low cost soy milk, I can't > contribute useful information on pricing. But I thought that eliminating > or reducing the cost of driving to pick up the soy milk and other food > at a faraway big box store might be one way of reducing the cost. > > ~Paul > > Terry Somerson wrote: > > Oh I am sorry, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but where do you > have to > > live to get home delivery of organic foods? I'm lucky to have a few > > organics at my local market and if I watch the sell-by dates > carefully some > > of them are actually still edible. Are you referring to Peapod or > some of > > the other online ordering services? > > > > For more information about vegetarianism, please visit the VRG website > at http://www.vrg.org and for materials especially useful for families > go to http://www.vrg.org/family.This is a discussion list and is not > intended to provide personal medical advice. Medical advice should be > obtained from a qualified health professional. > > edical advice. Medical advice should be obtained from a qualified > health professional. > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 30, 2006 Report Share Posted May 30, 2006 Out in Western canada, spud.ca does lots of deliveries. They recently came to Calgary (where I live), taking over a smaller company, Organic Express, which also used to deliver. I do think this sort of thing is quite common in large cities now--even out here in 'cattle country'. :-) -Risa Heather <jhr wrote: I live in a medium-sized city (around 150,000 people) and I recently found out that there is a small, independent farm store in a little town about a 40-minute drive from me that has home delivery of organic produce. But I've never seen the service advertised and only found out via an acquaintance who uses it. It could be these things are around more than we realize, and just aren't very visible. I've only ever popped into that store once or twice when I happened to be driving through the town on the way somewhere else, and I hadn't known they delivered. In case there's anyone else out there who lives in my neck of the woods -- the store is called Pfenning's Organic and it is in St. Agatha, Ontario (Canada). They deliver weekly to Waterloo, Kitchener, Cambridge, Guelph, Brantford, Stratford, Paris, and Elmira for a $5 fee. http://www.pfenningsorganic.com/ And -- I'm so excited -- there's a vegan variety store opening in Kitchener in June! It's always seemed like natural products etc. were something I had to order online, mainly from the States, not available anywhere around here. That's changing quickly. Heather (in Waterloo, Ontario) Paul Falvo wrote: > If that's a disrespectful question, then this is a pretty civil list > ... > > Sorry if my post was vague. When I lived in Toronto, there were several > companies offering home delivery of organic and non-organic food. My > favourite was a service that offered a weekly box of fresh local organic > produce. Packaged goods like soy milk was also available. > > Halifax has one such service. > > No such luck where I live now (sub-arctic!). But some grocery stores > have delivery service. Mostly I am in the same situation as Terry these > days -- watching the sell-by dates at our local Co-op! > > Because I am far from the people asking about low cost soy milk, I can't > contribute useful information on pricing. But I thought that eliminating > or reducing the cost of driving to pick up the soy milk and other food > at a faraway big box store might be one way of reducing the cost. > > ~Paul > > Terry Somerson wrote: > > Oh I am sorry, I don't mean to be disrespectful, but where do you > have to > > live to get home delivery of organic foods? I'm lucky to have a few > > organics at my local market and if I watch the sell-by dates > carefully some > > of them are actually still edible. Are you referring to Peapod or > some of > > the other online ordering services? > > > > For more information about vegetarianism, please visit the VRG website > at http://www.vrg.org and for materials especially useful for families > go to http://www.vrg.org/family.This is a discussion list and is not > intended to provide personal medical advice. Medical advice should be > obtained from a qualified health professional. > > edical advice. Medical advice should be obtained from a qualified > health professional. > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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