About three quarters of the way through the day I realized that it was February 6th, 2012 and it was on this date in 2010 that we opened our doors at our new location (9605 – 82nd Avenue).

Staying in business is difficult to do and we could not do it without our staff and our customers. I thank you all for supporting this dream.

Take care.

- Posted on February 6th, 2012

Today there were several people that phoned about cinnamon. Their concern was whether we carried true cinnamon from Sri Lanka (Ceylon ). True Ceylon cinnamon is also called Mexican Cinnamon because this is the only cinnamon they use in their cuisine.

People are concerned with the coumarin oil content in the cinnamon originating from other south-eastern Asian countries.There is concern in some academic circles that coumarin oil can adversely effect the liver and is recognized as a blood-thinner. Cassia has over 1250 times the amount of coumarin in it than Ceylon cinnamon.

Many of the cinnamons that are in Canada are of the cassia variety of cinnamon - most notably Indonesian Korintje, Chinese, and Saigon/Vietnamese cassia cinnamon. Oddly enough the cassia product has more pronounced cinnamon flavour than real Ceylon cinnamon and is quite a bit less expensive – maybe that is why the food industry provides this product to the masses and the packaging industry since it is stronger and cheaper.

Ceylon cinnamon is fairly rare on the shelves in Canada. Ceylon cinnamon has a lighter and sweeter flavour than the cassia varieties.

Be Part of Something Good, Work at Earth’s General Store

We are a community grocery store with a wide selection of certified organic and certified fair trade choices, offering the community information and products that support good health and reduce our ecological and social impact on the planet and all inhabitants.

We are currently looking for a Full-Time Produce Staff (25-35 hours/week)

While previous produce experience is an asset, those willing to learn are also encouraged to apply.

This position offers the opportunity for advancement.
Produce staff maintain the produce section, place and receive orders and provide customer service.

Responsibilities

We are going to discontinue carrying these products and you have the opportunity to reap the benefits because we have put them on sale.

So all our luxurious Coyuchi bath towels and bed sheets (linen) are 25% off and our Clean Undies (all styles of underwear) are also 25% off.

Come and help us move these items and enjoy the discount.

- Posted February 2nd, 2012

Learn the reasons behind a raw or high raw diet and how to easily incorporate more raw food. into your diet

A green smoothie and several other simple dishes will be demonstrated and sampled.

Location Name:
Earth's General Store

Location Address:
9605 - 82nd Avenue, Edmonton, AB

You must pre-register and pre-pay at Earth’s General Store on or before February 3^rd. Space is limited. The cost is $15 and this must be paid in person in cash at the store.

This is a very popular workshop so please give us a call (780-439-8725) to ensure there is a space available before heading down to the store.

- Posted January 30th, 2012

It seems we expand the raw food section by leaps rather than small steps.

Today we added:

• Sacred Heart Raw Chocolates
• Gopal’s Raw Nori Wrap Snacks
• Irish Moss – granulated and in bulk
• Blendtec HP3A blender
• Raw Organic Agave syrup in bulk
• Raw Organic Indonesian Cocoa Powder
• Hand Cracked Organic and Raw Cashew Pieces – IN BULK
• Sun Warrior Protein Powders – Vanilla, Natural and Chocolate flavours.
• Better Than Roasted Raw, Sprouted and Organic Butters – Almond, Sesame, and Cashew

We now have back in stock:

• Raw hand cracked cashews – 454gm packs
• Botija Herbed Olives

We still have lots of Kelp Noodles – they seem to get more popular every week. It helps that places like Noorish serves them up and will shortly have them on their menu. These will only get more and more popular for people looking for healthier past like products.

- Posted January 30th, 2012

Today we received and put out for display our first shipment of organic garden seeds from Stellar Seeds. We have been offering Stellar Seeds for over 5 years now since a local seed company stopped producing seeds for us to sell. I like them.

We will be having more seeds from other suppliers coming in the next few weeks.

So if you want to get organic garden seeds in your hand so that you can start dreaming the garden dream step on down to our store and get some.

Sorry no Kale seeds yet!

- Posted January 20th, 2012

Not only did I stop into Planet Organic to do some price comparisons on December 19th but I also checked out Save-On Foods (Calgary Trail and 78th Avenue).

I have posted the list of the products I recorded. The price difference for the items I recorded came out to a 14% price difference. Again showing that Earth’s General Store has some very good prices on Organic food and Natural Health products.

When I started doing the Activist Agenda I used to do it up in Microsoft Word and cut and paste it into an email body and send it out to a list of people that expressed interest in receiving it. Then a few issue developed – Yahoo and other email providers started to block the sent messages.

So I paid for a service to handle the mailing of the AA. This worked out to over $40 a month and would still take about 10 hours to compile.

My friend Conrad Nobert came to the rescue and developed the present web based AA. This saved a lot of time and allowed more people to post their events directly to the AA.

The other day a certain aspect of my email for the store got blocked – anything with my phone number in it. It seems that Telus and/or someone out there that didn’t like the AA marked it as spam and a service flagged us. It was partly our fault because we have not cleaned up the email list for a very long time and there were several obsolete email addresses on our list.

This morning I went out to the CTV studios and did a short blurb on composting. Their current book club book is about a young woman/girl (unsure about the age) who inherits a farm in BC and goes to live there. From my understanding the young woman is very green (both ways – has lots of environmentally friendly habits and is new to the world of farming/growing things).

One of the things she learns about is composting to make her soil healthier and nutritious for her plants. CTV called on me to talk about this aspect of the book.

You can check out the video clip here and then search for compost. It will take you directly to the segment.

Composting is one of the top ten things you can do to reduce your environmental impact and produce an excellent soild builder.

- Posted December 14th, 2011