POP!corn

Hey! Did you know that popcorn is a great whole grain snack rich in fiber and anti-oxidants??
We recently added a new star to our bulk section-Fireworks Popcorn from Port Washington, WI! We now feature Red River Valley red popcorn boasting a crunchy deep corn flavor, High Mountain Midnight popcorn with it's earthy robust mouthful, Wisconsin White Birch with its light and crispy texture and Baby White Rice as our hull-less small but crispy option. All popcorns are GMO and trans fat free! Mix them together for a popcorn party and add some nutritional yeast for a slightly salty flavor and added nutrients!


http://popcornlovers.com/

just cashews

We are absolutely thrilled to offer you this new farm-direct, fair trade product.

Just Cashews is committed to alleviating poverty, malnutrition and exploitation by creating a fair trade market for organic, fair trade, cashews and working to develop standards for fair trade cashew production throughout the world. By purchasing Just Cashews, you have a direct impact on the quality of life for peasant farmers and their families in Central America.

Read the full story on the cooperative in Honduras that our cashews come from right here.

And on to the food part:
Cashew nuts are actually the kidney-shaped seeds that adhere to the bottom of the cashew apple, the fruit of the cashew tree, which is native to the coastal areas of northeastern Brazil. While cashew apples are not appreciated in the United States, they are regarded as delicacies in Brazil and the Caribbean. Cashews are always sold shelled because the interior of the shells contains a caustic resin, known as cashew balm, which must be carefully removed before the nuts are fit for consumption. This caustic resin is actually used in industry to make varnishes and insecticides. Interested? Read more about cashew nutrition right here.

Bulk Coffee from Just Coffee and Farmer TO Farmer!

Hi friends,

please come join us for a cup of coffee at our new store, we'll be happy to introduce you to our new bulk coffee selection (in case you want to bring in your own container, buy any fraction of a pound of coffee or for whatever other reason that keeps your cup fresh!).

currently we're testing four bulk varieties from Farmer to Farmer and Just Coffee.

Farmer To Farmer: FRENCH & MEDIUM ROASTS

Just Coffee: REVOLUTION ROAST & BIKE FUEL

new in bulk

In our ongoing quest to serve you better and work more directly with family farmers for a wide variety of foods, we have recently found a new source for some of our beans, grains and dried fruit. Ferris Organic Farm in Michigan is both certified organic and Kosher. Read for yourself, a quote pulled directly from their website.

"Our 200 acre farm consists of about 150 tillable acres and has been certified organic since certification began. We have just changed to the Global Organic Alliance organic certifier. All grains, beans,and flour produced here are Kosher and Parve (Congregation Bais Chabad). We have an ‘on farm’ certified organic dry bean and grain cleaning facility, the first one certified organic in the mid-west. We have a modest warehouse building that contains an office, cold room and re-bagging room."

Please note that only some of these beans and grains are grown directly on their farm, such as pintos and raw wheat germ. We have been searching hard for a bulk supplier that can cover many of our needs and bring it all to us in one shipment versus sourcing out many suppliers that would require multiple shipments, thus using more fuel (and increasing delivery costs) to get it to us! Please do let us know however if you can source a more local or regional product for some of the items listed so that we can constantly be aware and proactive. Send requests or suggestions to Jen. I am happy to receive any word on more regional suppliers of any of these items.

New items to the shelves at JLF:

• Pinto beans (Michigan)
  
• Wheat Germ, raw (Michigan)
  
• Red Lentils (Turkey)
  
• Green Lentils (Canada)
  
• French Du Puy Lentils (Canada)
  
• Quinoa (Peru)
  
• Bulghar (Turkey)
  
• Dried Mango slices (Thailand)
  

Sorry folks, they only have the sweetened, unsulphured available to us, we used to carry the unsweetened through a different supplier. Let us know what you think.
Stop in and bulk up!

Bulkin' up

Jlf has bulked up! Garbanzos (aka chickpeas), black turtle beans, pintos, green lentils and kidney beans all ready for your stews, dips, salads and sides. Look for dried fruits and raw unsalted nuts including mango slices (unsulphured and unsweetened), almonds, sunflower kernels, walnuts, raisins and a few others to satisfy your craving for healthy snacks. We also have flax seed, millet, yellow and white popcorn. In recent days, we have decided to supplement the empty spots on our shelves (due to supplier shortages) with some brown basmati rice, long and short grain rice (due in this Sunday!). For the time, you will notice that these bulk items are packaged by us but we hope to bring you some self-serve bulk bins in the near future. As always, the bulk department is open to suggestion so please send them our way!