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January 27, 2007

My Organic Market

When we went over to Katherine's on Wednesday she was telling me about a market called My Organic Market that she was going to check out the next day. She sent me an email after she went and told me how neat it was and pointed out that they had one near me in Jessup, or as they call it "Columbia East". This morning we ventured over to check it out and I must say even Jamison was impressed!

Here's their mission statement:

Our Mission, our reason for existing and our #1 priority is to restore the environment to the maximum extent we are able.Whether taking action as individuals (both employees and customers), as a company, influencing other companies, funding legislative efforts, or supporting environmental advocacy groups, we will work tirelessly towards ensuring a clean and restored environment for our children and many future generations.

My kind of company! They are also completely wind powered! How cool is that?? A proactive company is one I like to see!

In January 2005, MOM‘s began purchasing 1.2 million Kilowatt-hours of Wind Energy per year. This purchase represents our entire energy use for one year at all three stores.

The benefits of this wind-powered energy are:
The elimination of the emissions equal to: 104 cars per year or Offsetting the contamination of the air produced by 120 average households or The positive value of planting 97,989 trees, which naturally remove harmful amounts of carbon dioxide from the air.

They are now up to 5 stores (4 are open, one in Frederick is opening soon) and they continue the same philosophy that they have had since the very beginning. Also I was highly impressed not only with their selection (they had Jamison's Rice cheese and they even had Rice cream cheese), but also their prices! Jamison's Rice cheese was a dollar cheaper per package than at Whole Foods as was Alexis' milk! Their products were comparable in price to my local Giant and they were even cheaper than Giant on organic products! (Which make up the majority of the store...if it's not organic it's all natural, or both!)! Their produce was beautiful and they had a HUGE selection of everything from flour to cheese to yogurt to whole grains to nuts to well you get the picture! They even had vitamins, bath products, etc.! And their staff was very friendly and eager to help if you needed anything, which we didn't, but it was nice to know they were there if we did need them.

Here's some more information on the "Columbia East" location:

MOM's - Columbia East, MD General Manager - Elliot Satin -- Since opening in Sept. 2006, MOM's is proudly serving the Howard County community with our most environmentally friendly location yet. We are truly "Walking the Talk", from skylights and energy efficient equipment to produce clippings and our bamboo service desk. Once again produce is the highlight of this location. We even decorated with photo's of our own beautiful 100% organic produce. Stop by soon and take in our incredible selection of organic,natural and specialty products.

If you live in Maryland or Northern Virginia check out the My Organic Market website and see if there is a branch near you and if you're interested in going to the location in Jessup then click on the map above.

Posted by Dianne at January 27, 2007 11:47 AM

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