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!

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.

Organic farmer and producer Brian Olesen’s Colorado Mountain Jams have received a number of international awards. Much of the fruit used to make these delicious specialty jams is grown on certified organic orchards in Palisade on Colorado’s Western Slope. With hot, dry days and cool nights, the region is famous for producing some of the highest quality, best tasting fruit in America. Brian allows his fruit to tree ripen for maximum flavor.

All Colorado Mountain Jam is produced in a small commercial kitchen right on the farm and packaged in beautiful, hexagonal 8-oz. jars. One taste of Colorado grown and produced Organic Apple Pie Jam or other delicious flavors will have you reaching for more!

Click here to include this unique product in your next organic gift box collection for a loved one, friend, business associate…or to treat yourself! Check out our Licious Organics jams, made in Boulder, too!

One of the goals of our new blog is to highlight local, organic food operations. Today I ran across this article from the Vail Daily reporting on Eaton Ranch which is a small cattle operation that sells their beef to places like Larkburger (love that place!).

VAIL VALLEY, Colorado — Stand at the highest point of the Homestead neighborhood in Edwards in Colroado’s Vail Valley and look out over the booming village. Shopping centers, office buildings, recreational fields, schools, condominium complexes, even a world renowned cancer center. Just 20 years ago, you would have seen one Texaco station, one restaurant, and lots of cows.

One half mile west of the Edwards exit off I-70, and south of the interstate there is still a homestead called Eaton Ranch. It looks like an early American home, but actually serves as the base of a small cattle operation. Two years ago, Allana Smith, director of kitchen operations for Vail-based Savory Group, (Larkspur, Larkburger, Avondale) learned that it would be possible for the group to extend their commitment to using local food sources by purchasing an Eaton Ranch steer for the restaurants’ menus.

Chefs Armando Navarro of Larkspur and Jeremy Kittelson of Avondale hand selected one steer who was then given its own pasture in Edwards while the rest of the herd went to graze in another part of the state. The chosen steer was carefully nurtured with a special diet in preparation for its ultimate purpose. The result: tender, flavorful beef organically raised within a few miles of the restaurants.

You may not find local beef in your grocery store or butcher shop, but purchasing the highest quality, organically raised beef available will yield the best flavor. Smaller herds equal the most humane treatment and hence texture and flavor.

Americans love their beef; it’s evident in the popularity of fine steakhouses throughout the country. The best tasting beef is rarely available for purchase in supermarkets. Where’s the compromise? Try wallet-friendly organic ground beef. With America’s biggest day of TV sports fast approaching, why not treat your family and friends to a big pot of chili on Superbowl Sunday?