We’re honored to be able to serve so many fantastic customers. In order to show just how amazing our customers are, we wanted to be able to spotlight some of the exciting things that you do, which is why we’re introducing the Terra Organics Member Spotlight.

We’d like to share info about your business, your projects, your favorite produce, recipes and more to the rest of our membership. But we need your help to make it happen. If you’re interested in being spotlighted on our blog, please fill out this form. Members that are selected to be spotlighted will receive two weeks of free produce!

Membership spotlight form

There is a wealth of fantastic and informative information out there about why Wal-Mart in Tacoma (or anywhere for that matter) is a bad thing for people, cities, farms and out agriculture. Here are a few resources worth checking out:

• Wal-Mart: The Cost of Low Prices – A comprehensive movie detailing what Wal-Mart does to cities it inhabits (available online)
• Is Wal-Mart Good for America – A PBS report on its dangers
• The Retail Revolution – A book the investigates the sometimes shady dealings of Wal-Mart

We here at Terra Organics want to present our opposition to Walmart coming to Tacoma. We see Wal-Mart as being bad for eaters and bad for farmers. Here’s our official statement from owner, Dan:

As an owner of a small business and a resident of the City of Tacoma, I want to voice my opposition to Wal-Mart setting up shop in Tacoma.  Wal-Mart has an egregious history of treating its workers poorly and destroying competition and independently owned businesses.  Their model of selling cheap junk for less – especially highly processed, low-cost, high-caloric and nutrient deficient foods – is bad for our community and for the health of our residents.

To find out more about the fight to keep Wal-Mart out of Tacoma, check out the Tacoma United Against Wal-Mark facebook page and voice your support.

Tacoma cartoonist RR Anderson protest the site of the proposed Wal-Mart

Terra gets our bags from Aurora Packaging and they are in fact biodegradable and 100% recyclable. Aurora uses an additive from ECM Biofilms which allows the bags to break down completely when in contact with other decomposing materials. Our bags break down in compost bins, landfills, or even when buried in the ground. Terra bags can also be recycled along with regular plastic bags too. Further, because our bags aren’t starch based, they won’t degrade due to oxygen, heat, or sunlight. That means you can use your bags over and over for other uses like a compost bin, recycling or unique fashion statements

We’re proud to reduce our environmental impact with these fully Biodegradable bags and hope that you’ll help us be sustainable by composting or recycling your bags.

Terra Organics is excited to announce that we’ll be adding a new coffee bean from Bluebeard, soon to be available in the webstore. Our new coffee, Colombia Fair Trade Organic is produced by the ANEI Cooperative.

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For only the second time in eight years we will raise the price of our standard boxes.  At the same time we will be decreasing our delivery fee from $5 to $3.  What we have found is that the size and quantity of items in the box is diminished over time, as inflation, the cost of oil, and the strength in the organic market catches up with our fixed price model.

At the same time we will be reducing our delivery minimum from $25 to $20, and introducing a new box at the $20 level that is based on the Environmental Working Group’s list of the Dirty Dozen – those fruits and vegetables with the highest rate of pesticide use.

All other standard boxes – All Fruit, All Veg, Mixed Fruit and Veg, PNW, Healthy Kids and CSA – will be available in two sizes: small and large.  The small box price will be $29 and the large box price will be $45.  These prices include the $3 delivery fee.

Again, these changes will not take effect until January 1 and the ability to switch to the new boxes will first become available on December 30th.

We will be releasing our first ever annual report at the beginning of next week and will provide some context for these changes and reinforce the reasons why your support of Terra Organics is important.

We appreciate your understanding and value your business.  Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback.

Sincerely,

The Terra Organics Team