Nova Covington, a fourth generation herbalist, values the Earth and the healing power of plants. Inspired by her young daughter’s health needs, she created an organic alternative to synthetic soap found in traditional baby products. This fueled the creation of safe skincare solutions and the founding of Goddess Garden in 2004. Goddess Garden has the highest organic content sunscreen on the market. This 70% organic natural sunscreen with a 30 SPF can be part of great gifts available at Best Organics and is available in both kids and adult formulas. Goddess Garden chooses certified organic, fair trade, and sustainably sourced ingredients, and scents products with 100% pure essential oils. We invite you to share this great brand by adding Goddess Garden Sunscreen to a summer fun gift and get 20% off through August 15!! Enter code Summer2010 during checkout.

Also of note: The Environmental Working Group just published a guide on how to choose the safest, most effective sunscreens and Goddess Garden is listed as one of the safer products on the market!

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Nova Covington, a fourth generation herbalist, values the Earth and the healing power of plants. Inspired by her young daughter’s health needs, she created an organic alternative to synthetic soap found in traditional baby products. This fueled the creation of safe skincare solutions and the founding of Goddess Garden in 2004. Goddess Garden has the highest organic content sunscreen on the market. This 70% organic natural sunscreen with a 30 SPF can be part of great gifts available at Best Organics and is available in both kids and adult formulas. Goddess Garden chooses certified organic, fair trade, and sustainably sourced ingredients, and scents products with 100% pure essential oils. We invite you to share this great brand by adding Goddess Garden Sunscreen to a summer fun gift and get 20% off through August 15!! Enter code Summer2010 during checkout.

Also of note: The Environmental Working Group just published a guide on how to choose the safest, most effective sunscreens. We are pleased that Goddess Garden is recommended as a safe sunscreen by EWG’s research!

The work of internationally renowned artist and painter Jim Freeheart, creator of the colorful scenes of Boulder and Colorado featured on Best Organics™ keepsake gift boxes, is being featured in a new show at the Creative Framing Gallery, a well-known fine arts gallery based in Louisville, CO. Titled “Freeheart in Paris,” the show features paintings done in brush and finger style from Freeheart’s recent travels to France and Italy. More than 30 works are on display during the month of June. Freeheart’s work is sold worldwide.

Since the early 1970s, Jim has painted everywhere he has lived and traveled. His vibrantly colored, impressionistic paintings feature beautiful landscapes, mountain vistas, vibrant downtown scenes, and sandy beaches and crashing surf.

Jim’s love of the planet has made him a staunch environmentalist and philanthropist, supporting food banks, education and environmental causes. He currently lives, surfs and paints in Hawaii. Visit www.JimFreeheart.com for more information.

For more information about Boulder’s Best Organics™ and Colorado’s Best Organics™ gift box collections, featuring Jim’s work–and all organic and eco-friendly snacks, foods, personal care and other wonderful local products–visit www.bouldersbestorganics.com. When you give a Best Organics gift collection, you also support local business, organic farming and sustainability.

Summer brings Father’s Day, 4th of July and family gatherings. Good times, laughs and love.

Created especially for Father’s Day, Best Organics introduces the Totally Organic Dad gift box collection. Featuring a beautifully illustrated, reusable, keepsake gift box (including Father’s Day wrap) that is filled with delicious spicy roasted almonds, apple-pie jam, French Roast coffee, decadent dark chocolate bar, tasty milk chocolate Sun Cups, chipotle lime rub for grilling, some great trail treats like a granola bar, an oat bar, nut-butter squeeze packs, and bees-wax lip balm. Active dads are sure to enjoy this all organic, eco-friendly sampler.

Order today to save 20% on this special Father’s Day gift box collection ($42), which ships easily, anywhere. And for all your other gift-giving occasions, Give a Better Gift™ with Best Organics and support local producers, organic farming, sustainable business, and the health of our families and environment. 


Happy Summer!
Seleyn DeYarus and Steve Hoffman
Owners, Best Organics LLC

Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org and author of The End of Nature and Eaarth, recently visited Colorado as part of an “At the Epicenter” salon series hosted by Best Organics to share ways individuals, communities and businesses can lessen their impact on global warming. Partnering with Natural Capitalism Solutions and Sterling Rice Group, Seleyn DeYarus, President of Best Organics, brought together more than 60 community leaders for a conversation with McKibben. Bill spoke of immediate action steps and encouraged people to get involved in 350.org’s upcoming global rally on 10/10/10 to build awareness of climate change. McKibben was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its inaugural list of the 100 most important global thinkers, and MSN named him one of the dozen most influential men of 2009. Visit 350.org.

Order today to ensure on time delivery for Mother’s Day 2010! Visit www.bouldersbestorganics.com.

In time for Mother’s Day on May 9, we are pleased to introduce our new Spring Gift Box Collection, featuring an assortment of wonderful organic, eco-friendly foods, coffee, organic personal care products.

New this year: organic seed packets of Basil, Chives, and Oregano for your favorite gardeners. Provided by Botanical Interests of Broomfield, CO, these unique organic seed varieties are beautifully packaged with lots of information about planting, history and use.

The Spring gift collection also features soothing Goddess Garden natural suncreen, delicious Olomomo Chai Bliss almonds, aromatic Boulder Coffee breakfast blend, sumptuous Chocolicioius spread, rich 61% Chocolove dark chocolate bar, yummy Bobo’s Cranberry Oat bar and luxurious Joia Botanical soap and silken lip balm.

Presented in our beautiful keepsake gift boxes, the Spring Organic Gift Box Collection is easy to ship anywhere. Mom will love it! Perfect for all other gift giving occasions, too!

Click here to order now in time for Mother’s Day delivery. With 20% off, the Spring Gift is $41 which includes the Happy Mother’s Day wrap.

Special Mother’s Day Custom Wrap Available
Customize your organic gift box collection with our beautiful Happy Mother’s Day Sleeve Wrap! Also, we are happy to include a custom message inside the box for your gift recipient. See our website for more details.

Demand for Natural, Organic and Green Products grew 41% between 2004 and 2009.

The LOHAS or Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability market, comprising, natural, organic, sustainable and socially responsible products and services, is growing 10-15% per year.

Even in a tough economy, 35% of U.S. consumers are still willing to pay more for green products. In fact, the “green living” market grew 41% between 2004 and 2009, according to market research firm Mintel.

Based on research released in April 2010 by the Natural Marketing Institute, the LOHAS market is estimated at $290 billion, with U.S. consumer spending in the five general LOHAS market sectors for 2008 as follows:

• Personal Health: $117 billion (natural/organic food, personal care, supplements, etc.)
• Green Building: $100 billion (certified homes, Energy Star appliances, etc.)
• Alternative Transportation: $20 billion (hybrids, diesel vehicles, electric vehicles, car sharing, etc.)
• Eco-tourism: $42 billion (travel spent on excursions in nature)
• Natural Lifestyles: $10 billion (home furnishings, apparel, etc.)
• Alternative Energy $1 billion (renewable power)

Back in 1969 when Earth Day was still an idea, Boulderite Tom Mayberry was traveling in California when he met Denis Hayes at an environmental conference in San Francisco. Tom worked at the time for an educational film company owned by Oak Thorne, founder of the Thorne Ecological Institute in Boulder. Hayes had been asked by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to stage the first Earth Day to raise awareness. When Tom asked Hayes who was the person organizing Earth Day events in Colorado, Hayes told him, “You are!”

Encouraged by Thorne, Mayberry hosted environmental “teach-ins” and lectures around Boulder, and hundreds rallied at Boulder’s Central Park for the first Earth Day in 1970. Nationwide, about 20 million people took part.

Today, we honor the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. At Best Organics, we do strive to do our part by reducing our carbon footprint and promoting local products, grown organically and sustainably.

And we are very proud that Oak Thorne, one of the creators of Earth Day in Boulder, is a regular customer and supporter of Best Organics, giving his valued contacts Boulder’s Best Organics gift box collections throughout the year. Check out the Thorne Ecological Institute at www.thorne-eco.org. Thank you, Thorne!

Happy 40th birthday to the University of Colorado Environmental Center, founded on the first Earth Day in April 1970. Today, the center’s eight full-time staff members, 100 part-time student workers and hundreds of volunteers wield their multimillion-dollar budget — raised almost entirely from student fees — to tackle everything from recycling and composting to environmental justice issues and the creation of a campus-wide carbon neutrality plan.