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Over the last six years she has been working as a deli shift lead, Sandy is amazed at the amount of food the co-op’s little kitchen produces and the large amount of customers it is able to serve daily. Now she feels the deli’s breakfast options, which include breakfast sandwiches, yogurt parfaits, and hot oatmeal, fill a nice niche that was missing before. It pleases Sandy how the co-op seeks to meet more and more needs over time, which relates to the store’s mission of helping to create a healthy community. And when you are tired from getting up at 3:00 a.m. to do your Black Friday shopping, hopefully the deli’s breakfast options can meet your need for food fast! The deli’s drive thru opens at 6:30 a.m. on Black Friday, November 27 to give you that boost you need to do

We Love Cory’s Stewing Beef & You Will Too!

ByEvan Friedley

November 7, 2015

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Click here for Cory's homemade bone broth recipe. Click here to download Cory's bone broth tips. Click here for Cory's beef stew recipe using homemade bone broth. Our staff chose stewing beef as a product they love and want to share with you, our customers, this week from November 8 through November 14. Cory, who works in Valley Natural Foods' meat department, chose to share his story of why he loves stewing beef. For the last month, Cory is all about preparing beef bone broth using stewing meat and fresh bones. He even keeps a quart in the freezer for when he runs out and then every few weeks, he will make a new batch. Although he cannot pinpoint bone broth as the exact reason he is feeling sharper than ever these days, he does know it most likely plays a part. He admits that bone

Japanese Beetle

ByEvan Friedley

July 23, 2015

Co-op Gardens, Featured

Greetings! Many of you are asking about the metallic brown/black beetles that are all over your bean plants, roses and grapevines. These are the much despised Japanese Beetles, and they are everywhere. [caption id="attachment_23585" align="aligncenter" width="347"] Japanese Beetle. Too bad they can’t just be earrings.[/caption] Earlier in the spring, I was really hopeful we wouldn’t see too many of them because I didn’t find too many JB grubs in the ground. (Their grubs are the white ones with the orange faces.) They over-winter underground and start to emerge late June-mid July where they start a gluttonous party that would put the revelers of Dionysus to shame. [caption id="attachment_23586" align="alignnone" width="230"] Dionysus. Like the Japanese Beetles, he’s got your garden by the grapes.[/caption] JB’s will notoriously go after just about anything edible, and even some things that aren’t. Gardener chat sites are filled with discussions about them, any

New Product Alert! Organic Jiaogulan Immortalitea

ByEvan Friedley

June 17, 2015

Featured, Wellness Center

[caption id="attachment_23232" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Jiaogulan Immortalitea is available in the bulk tea and spice area of Valley Natural Foods near the wellness department. The co-op also sells the ceramic mug pictured in the general merchandise area and the wooden tea baskets are available in the wellness department.[/caption] All information in this post is adapted from an article by Valley Natural Foods’ wellness department associate and herbalist, Chip Greene. Stop by the wellness department and get more information from Chip on this amazing tea. Valley Natural Foods’ wellness department is excited to bring you a unique, specialized organic bulk herb tea called Jiaogulan or Immortalitea, grown in Northern Thailand in the foothills of the Himalayas. This herb cultivates in low-laying vine or ground cover leaf clusters and its seed has vegetable origins, deriving from the cucumber family. Jiaogulan is a Gynostemma pentaphyllum herb tea,

Black Friday Breakfast Time

We Love Cory’s Stewing Beef & You Will Too!

Japanese Beetle

New Product Alert! Organic Jiaogulan Immortalitea

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