the organic food blog

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OK, so now you know why Fairtrade organic coffee has coffee drinkers queueing up for more- the natural process for growing and harvesting the beans makes it taste so much better. But there’s more to it than that. This is the really exciting part- Fairtrade. You’re going to love this.
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Angelina Jolie, Colin Firth, Bono and Elton John. They’re just some of the celebrities raving over Organic Fairtrade Coffee. Two Australian municipalities have joined hundreds of international cities in earning the title “fairtrade community”. In 2009 alone, Australians and New Zealanders spent more that $50 million on the stuff. So why are the world’s coffee-lovers [...]

While households across Australia continue to take a hit from the current economic slowdown the popularity of organic food is continuing to rise.
According to Scott Butler, founder of Melbournes leading organic home delivery service, Organic Angels, busy mums and dads aware of the benefits of feeding children organic food are proving that organics can be [...]

 
I run an organic delivery business in Melbourne Australia. Over the last couple of months, I have had a lot of people presuming my business would be starting to struggle because of the credit crunch. I guess as organic produce�is a premium item, consumers with a tight budget would tend to go with cheaper non-organic [...]

New research released by the Biological Farmers Association of Australia (BFA) showed farm-gate organic sales in Australia grew by 80 per cent since 2004, with the industry breaking through a $0.5Bn retail value mark for the first time.
The research was published in the Australian Organic Market Report 2008, and found that the organics sector is [...]

A $12m EU funded study by British scientists in Newcastle have found that organic produce is more nutritious than it’s conventional counterparts.
Early results from the study showed that organic fruit and vegetables contained up to 40% more antioxidants than non-organic varieties, according to Professor Carlo Leifert at Newcastle University, who leads the EU-funded Quality Low [...]

I thought that organic food had peaked in terms of its fashionable side and sometimes extravagant prices, for example when browsing Marks and Spencer’s offerings here in the UK. Apparently, I was wrong.
This week, a huge, glamorous, American Whole Foods opened in the oh-so-trendy Kensington High St, London, and I have already read three reviews [...]

I have just found a great article in The Australian on the current state of the organics industry in Australia.
According to the Organic Federation of Australia, sales of organic food in Australia are estimated at about $500 million a year and are growing at 25-50 per cent a year (between 30 and 50% at retail). [...]