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.

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.

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.

The Cut-Flower Industry

A few facts…

When you buy cut flowers check on the source and choose organic. And, if possible, choose locally grown flowers.

Do you know that although consumers spend more than $18 million on cut flowers each year:

• Flowers are one of the top pesticide-intensive agricultural crops

• If all the roses purchased for Valentine’s Day were grown organically it would prevent 22,700 pounds of pesticides.
• Flower companies in Ecuador use more than 30 different chemicals and synthetic fertilizers
• There are an estimated 140,000 flower laborers in Ecuador and Colombia, working to grow, harvest, and package for North Americans. Flower workers are routinely prevented from organizing unions, experience sexual harassment, forced pregnancy testing, and numerous health and safety violations, according to the International Labor Rights Forum.

And now for our shameless plug! Why not give a better gift! Buying a Best Organics gift box collection not only supports a variety of companies within the local economy, but is also supporting sustainable and eco-friendly practices. Of course our products are organic, but did you know that our boxes are printed with soy-based ink in Denver using recycled materials. And, right now our Valentine’s Day collections are all on sale!

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?