Notice
Due to the changes to protect the public (restriction of bulk refilling), people self-isolating, and such we are implementing some store changes.
We love you. We love our staff. We want everyone to be safe and healthy.
Even if you do not have any of the symptoms of Covid-19 we ask that you do not come into the store. Perhaps have someone shop for you. Other stores and businesses offer home delivery – SPUD.ca (the owners of Blush Lane), Organic Box, and all of the big national and multinational corporate stores offer some kind of delivery service (perhaps through InstaCart).
If you come to the store, we ask that you wash your hands as soon as you enter the store. There is a wash station close to the entrance of the store and a second one on the other side of the produce area.
Reduce Touching
We then ask that you resist touching anything that you are not picking up to buy. This will reduce the transmission of anything between you and other people in the store (we do a continuous sanitization of common surfaces but not every item in the store).
We will only allow a maximum of 10 customers in the store at a time. This helps to allow people to socially distance when they are in the store. We ask that you respect other people in the store, their space, and ensure that you are also comfortable with the spacing.
Staff will try and ensure that people maintain this distance. Please do not take it personally. These are just reminders. If you do need to pass by someone please pass by them back-to-back and not in front of them. Please be patient. Things are a little jammed up with this new way to be in public places like grocery stores.
We ask everyone to practice safe distancing at all times while in the store.
Wear a Mask
On August 1st, 2020, the City of Edmonton made mask-wearing mandatory in all enclosed spaces – shopping malls, stores, etc.
On December 8th, 2020 the Alberta government made the wearing of masks mandatory across the whole province.
This means that when you come into the store you will need to wear a mask – for your protection and the protection of others.
During the first lock-down earlier this year we reduced our store hours. This had more to do with the lack of staff we had available to maintain our regular hours. Our staff has done a great job during this adjustment and we have been able to resume our regular store hours
Monday – Friday: 9 am to 8 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 9 am to 6 pm
Holiday Hours
Christmas
December 24th 9:00 am – 3:00 pm *Closing EARLY*
December 25th *CLOSED*
December 26th 9:00 am – 8:00 pm
New Years
December 31st 9:00 am – 3:00 pm *Closing EARLY*
January 1st *CLOSED*
January 2nd 9:00 am – 8:00 pm
Several years ago someone asked me about this product and I have keep my eyes open for them ever since. One of our supplier started to bring these items in very recently and I am pleased to say – as of today Earth’s General Store is now stocking Butler’s Soy Curls.
Someone asked me to provide her a list of the permaculture books that we carry. When I wrote the list I did not realize we had so many. I thought I would share it with everyone else. This list does not include our books on Organic Gardening, beekeeping, chicken coops, house building and such. AND definitely not including our listing of Vegan, Vegetarian, Plant Based and Raw recipe books which would be about 10 times longer :).
Today we received some new titles (more new titles coming next week). So many people are incorporating more plant based meals into their lives. It is really good to see. The book industry is responding to this shift and we are seeing an incredible number of books being issued. List of books after the “Read More.”
Earth’s General Store has led the way to reintroducing fermentation to our local community with workshops, crocks, organic cabbage, and a large selection of books. Today we have added another tool so that people can make their own fermented foods right in their own home… the PerfectPickler™.
Earth’s General Store tries to offer socially and environmental products at a reasonable and fair price. This is one of the reasons why we started to roast our own Fair Trade Certified and Certified Organic coffee in the store. We could deliver freshly roasted coffee that was ethically/socially superior with minimal environmental impact PLUS being produced by artisans here in Edmonton – adding value to our community. We find that we need to change the prices for our coffee. Since we started to roast coffee in 2004 we have only raised the prices once – to go from $12.00 per pound to $12.50 per pound. It has been over 4 years since we raised our prices, so today we are raising the price to $13.50 per pound ($29.70/kg) for our roasted coffee beans.
A woman was in the store last week who had just come over here from Planet Organic, where she had asked this same question of two of their staff. ‘Do your products contain GMOs?’ One person told her that if it contained corn from the USA it had GMO even if it was labelled organic. The other person said that if it were labelled organic or NON-GMO Project Verified it does not have GMO ingredients. She was confused with their answer and came over to ask me. I think she was pleased with the thoroughness of my answer.
Today we received several calls about dried white mulberries. This is unusual for this product. When one of the staff asked a caller why the interest, they said they saw it on Dr Oz. Yes, we do carry dried white mulberry. We carry the packaged product and we even carry this in bulk at $36.00 per kilogram. Save money, save packaging, and save landfill space!
I always try and get new books on the subjects that matter to me. Books about adding skills to ones life, eating healthier, treading lighter on the planet, permaculture, agroecology, alternative building, fermentation, food preservation, veganism/vegetarianism/plant-based diet covers most of the types of books we carry.
Several people have come into the store lately saying that they haven’t been able to find Coconut Secret Coconut Aminos at their usual store and were surprised when they saw that we had plenty of the product. Coconut Aminos Available at Earth’s General Store in Package and BULK! Earth’s General Store was the first store to …
Some exciting new items this week: Daiya Cheese SLICES – Swiss, Cheddar and Provolone Gopal’s Health Food Power Wraps are back in stock after a long absences Gopal’s Health Food Sprouted Raw Bars – Almond, Brazil nut, and Hazelnut PreBio Jerusalem Artichoke Pre-biotic powder SmarrtKlean Laundry Balls Sproutman’s Multi Level Wheat Grass stacking sprouter/growing beds …