Tag: organic

Atlanta-based company the Honey Pot has garnered attention from the likes of Vogue and Marie Claire for disrupting the feminine care industry with its plant-based, chemical-free, environmentally friendly wipes, washes, and pads. Beatrice Feliu-Espada launched the company in 2014 after struggling to find suitable products in the feminine care aisle.

Erik Maier’s simultaneously sleek and bubbly fast-casual restaurant relies on organic ingredients and a crew of high-spirited bowl-builders.

HollyBeth is the only USDA-certified organic skincare company in Atlanta.

Even those with little to no agricultural know-how might assume, and reasonably so, that to be a farmer, you have to own land. Turns out, that’s not the case.

I stare at the partially-mashed glob of sweet potatoes, immersed in a bowl of water. It looks like Jabba the Hutt is taking a bath. This can’t be right. I consult the recipe card from Garnish & Gather, a new Atlanta business that provides cook-at-home kits with local, organic foods and pre-measured ingredients for simple recipes from notable chefs like Seth Freedman and Julia LeRoy.

After reading reports of a study suggesting that organic foods are no healthier than conventional foods, and then reading the source of those news stories in the current issue of Annals of Internal Medicine, I find that my reaction is mostly one of annoyance. Did I read the same study those other reporters read?

I have a feeling that Sprouts Green Cafe is going to do very well in Emory Village. The organic, health-focused cafe opened in the former One Hot Cookie space last week—just as most students left town for the summer, and in a dismal economic climate for new restaurants, no less. But lunch business was brisk on the afternoon I stopped in to check it out, and the friendly guy taking my order behind the counte