Popular Ponderings

The question of most of the general population is "why buy natural or organic foods?" The main reasons to buy natural foods involve the health and sustainability of our planet. First, natural foods don’t contain chemical additives that can cause health problems from allergies to skin irritations. Natural foods retain more of their nutrients because they’ve undergone less processing. Finally, eating natural foods helps encourage biological diversity, with farmers growing more varied crops in a healthier manner for both humans and environment.

There are numerous reasons for going one step further and buying organic foods. One of the most important of them involves our health! Buying organic foods helps protect future generations, since children currently receive four times more exposure than adults of eight widely used carcinogenic pesticides in food. Additionally, eating organic foods keeps potentially harmful chemical out of your body! The National Academy of Sciences reports that pesticides can add an additional 1.4 million cases of cancer among Americans over our lifetimes. Eating organic also helps protect the farmer’s health, as farmers exposed to herbicides had a six time greater risk than non-farmers of developing cancer (per a study by a Cancer Institute). And finally, organic foods simply taste better than commercially grown foods! Prove it to yourself by sampling an organic peach versus a commercial grown peach.

Joyful Being members Toni Hillebrand and Alyssa Seevers, along with Janet Kuenzi have organized a cooperative food group that operates out of Sharpsburg, Georgia. There are many options available from many different suppliers.

For more information get in touch with:

Toni Hillebrand, (770-531-5031), toni_Hillebrand@yahoo.com

Janet Kuenzi, (770-531-5031)

Alyssa Seevers, (678-423-7592), aseevers@charter.net

The following is additional information regarding the various options.

For Organic Produce:
Pick-up in Sharpsburg every Thursday or every other Thursday.
Approximately $35-$45 mixed variety of organic fruits and vegetables. Contact: Janet Kuenzi 770-253-5031,(back-up #Toni Hillebrand 770-632-2740)

Ozark Natural Foods Co-op:
Order from catalog once a month.
Pick-up in Sharpsburg - everyone is required to meet truck and split items.
Contact: Toni Hillebrand 770-632-2740, Aylssa Seevers use # on sight

Frontier Natural Products, and Garden of Life and Young Living Essential Oils:
Frontier is a catalog of supplements, toiletries, etc.
Order is placed once the minimum of $250 in orders is collected. Usually once a month.
Contact: Toni Hillebrand 770-632-2740

Garden of Life:
Superb quality food-based supplements.
Orders taken and inventory kept.
Primal Defense Probiotics, Perfect Foods (green powder),
and enzymes are some of the most popular items.

Young Living Essential Oils:
Therapuetic medicinal grade organic essential oils.
Reference Book is available for information.