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Terra Organics News
Celebrate Organics with Terra Gear!
May 1st
It’s here. The Official Terra Organic merchandise store! Now is your chance to show off your Organic-Pride with a Terra Organics or Tahoma Farms shirt, cooking apron, hat, coffee mug, and more. Even better is that our store offers some Organic cotton options.
Fan Photo Contest
We’re so excited about our new store that for the first person to send in/or post on our facebook page a photo of themselves decked out in Terra Gear will receive their next TWO DELIVERIES FOR FREE.
Take a look at some of our designs below and head over to http://www.zazzle.com/terraorganics for your favorite and a chance to win!
How to Win
Step 1: Purchase your favorite item from our gear store: http://www.zazzle.com/terraorganics
Step 2: Sport the item and show off your Organic Pride for a photo
Step 3: Send that photo in to etrotter (at) terra-organics (dot) com or or post on our facebook page
Step 4: The first person who completes Steps 1-3 wins their next two deliveries for FREE.
Now Delivering to Olympia
Apr 16th
Ahoy to our friends down South in our State’s great Capitol. We know how much people down in Olympia value great organic and local produce which is why we’re pleased to announce that Terra Organics is now delivering to you!
For all of our Olympian customers, we’re offering a $5 OFF discount on your first box with Coupon Code: OLYMPIA10. You must be an Olympia resident for this code to work.
So please, tell your friends down in Olympia who love Organics and that you think might like our service that we’re now delivering their way. And, by referring someone who lives in Olympia, you will receive $5 OFF your next order too!
New Add-On Item: Organic Cats!
Apr 1st
Terra Organics is excited to announce a new add-on item offering for our produce boxes. Starting today, April 1st, 2010, you now have the option to include a cat along with your produce. We’re offering a variety of cats from Singapura to Siamese or Tabby. Simply select which feline you’d like and you’ll receive the cat of your choosing along with your next box order.
While we don’t recommend eating your cat, they do make a fine house guest and go along great with any dinner consisting of tuna or furballs.
Cats Add-Ons are starting at $15.00 per cat. Our cats are direct from local breeders and are 100% Organic and flea free.
Our Organic Cat supplies are limited, so please put your order in before our deadline of April 18th, 2010. Select your cat type on this order form and we’ll bring your new pal direct to your door.
Give our delicious…er, friendly cats a new home in your produce box by ordering from Terra Organics. Good Cats from Healthy Breeders.
Blog Redesigned!
Mar 26th
After extensive consultation with some of the top designers on the internet, Terra Organics is excited to unveil our new Blog and Recipe spaces. Our slicker design is now 300% more conducive to strong content presentation, discussion facilitation and overall organics promotion. Keep checking back for the latest information on Terra Organics, the food industry and fun community events.
Have something for the blog?:
Email it to etrotter@terra-organics.com.
Furthermore, our new Recipe Blog provides dynamic navigation including by ingredient search to make cooking with organics that much easier. Plus, our new Recipe site offers an opportunity to not only view great recipes for our boxes, but also to discuss recipes and other cooking tips with members of our community. Check out our Recipe Forum and ignite a discussion.
Submit a Recipe:
We’re constantly looking for new and interesting recipes to share with the Terra Organics community. If you have one, please share it with us and we’ll post it.
We hope you enjoy our new spaces and are continuing to enjoy Good Food from Healthy Farms.
Terra in Perspective/Extended Referral Dates
Mar 4th
Based upon some comments we received from our recent customer survey, we know that you may have an interest in knowing where Terra Organics fits into the local organic farming and food scene. So, a couple of high points:
- In 2008, Pierce County had a total of just eight certified organic farms, totaling 885 acres. Just two farms, both dairy farms, represent more than 2/3 of this total. With the purchase last year of 40 acres in Orting, our farm, Tahoma Farms, is the largest organic farm, excluding dairies, in Pierce County.
- In 2006, 19 cents of every dollar spent in the US on food went to the farmer; the rest went to the processor, the wholesaler, the trucker, the retailer. We return at least 50 cents of every dollar you spend to the farms we purchase from directly. And in the summer months, 90% of our produce is purchased directly from the farmer.
- There are more and more CSA and “produce box” programs springing up every year. Terra Organics is, in our estimation, the fourth largest in the state.
We strive to grow our business for the sake of having a larger impact on the health of our local economy, farmland preservation, the future of farming, the environment – in short, the viability of small-scale, organic agriculture.
To this end, we value your efforts to spread the word about Terra Organics.
We have been adding new customers at a breakneck pace over the last two months, with an average of more than three new sign-ups per day! This means that we now need to devote more of our land to production this year and buy more produce from area farmers. Great things if, like us, you think that local farms and local food is important!
So, thank you.
The referral program where you get $5 off your next delivery in addition to the $5 off your friend/neighbor/family member receives when she signs up is going on for another 10 days.
