If you’ve ever wondered where I get the foods that go in all those jars in my boho hippie kitchen and in my open shelving pantry, today is your lucky day. This post is for those of you that that like to live more sustainably or “green”, eat healthy, support small businesses and who like to go beyond fair trade. Here’s the exciting part, you can easily save 100’s on healthy groceries to pick up (including household products) with this outstanding company called Azure Standard. Azure Standard has been trusted for over 30 years by my family to provide us with truly healthy, non GMO, natural, sustainable, eco friendly foods and household products at unbeatable prices.
About Azure
I was 10 when my mother and her friend began ordering healthy groceries and products from Azure Standard. I vividly remember the moment I saw Azure Standard’s ordering guide on the kitchen table, and being a curious reader I picked it up. I could see they were remarkably similar in mission to our natural foods coop and health food store, both of which I adored, even at such an early age.
More than 30 years later I can tell you the company is solidly built on integrity that is unwavering and unmatched. I’ve never seen customer care better than theirs, such close care and attention to every product they stock, from who they source it from to the ingredients. Their healthy, quality, yet super cheap groceries & products and unmatched core values set them apart from pretty much any other company.
Azure Standard’s Farm & Remarkable Owners
In 2004 my husband and I had the honor of visiting the Azure Standard farm. I had known some of the family that ran Azure for years but it was in 2004 I got to meet and spend 5 days in Mr. & Mrs. Stelzer (seniors) home. They originally started the company with their children and family, and their family run the company now. They elder couple were so gracious and full of energy. One day the elder Mr. Stelzer offered to take me on a tour around the farm and warehouse to which I gladly agreed!
I was fascinated by the farm, and in the history of the farm. Mr. Stelzer explained that prior to beginning organic farming and practicing sustainability their farm struggled. Once they began practicing sustainable farming methods and organic farming it didn’t take long for their yield to dramatically rise. He spoke of how their were many minerals and microbes the soil needed to be healthy and produce healthy food with good yield, and that by carefully restoring these things and balance to the soil it was restored and capable of producing far more than it is with traditional farming and agriculture practices, and their farm was living, thriving proof.
Easily Save 100’s On Healthy Groceries To Pick Up
Of course there is the obvious, you really can easily save 100’s on healthy groceries to pick up every year by choosing Azure Standard for household product needs and groceries. I know because we do.
From rice as low as $1.36 per lb, organic flour as low as .91 cent’s per lb and organic gluten free flour as low as $2.48, quality spices lower than I’ve seen them anywhere else (you can get a lb of taco seasoning for $8.31), to natural, non toxic cleaners that won’t harm your family, pets, or the environment at various low prices.
Here are a few more reasons you’ll love them though…..
Five Reasons You Want To Shop Azure Standard
- No corrupt corporations-they do not source from major corporations that only care about bottom dollar. They carefully select independent and family owned business to stock their warehouses with products. From their website, “Azure is fiercely independent and family owned and we believe a spirit of independence is what makes our customers, our communities and our country great. We also celebrate those food producers that align with us.”
- Quality, healthy ingredients in food they produce and stock are of utmost importance to Azure Standard. They carefully scan products ingredients before they source them and during. You won’t find GMO or MSG products here. A few more things you won’t find in their foods include refined sugars, artificial colors, flavors, preservatives, sweeteners, or bleached flours, and zero nitrates will be found in their meats.
- Organic, natural, sustainable principles. They believe that health starts in our earths air, water and soil and that when they are full of synthetic chemicals then the soil and earth will suffer and that all life (including human) will suffer. So they strive and succeed practicing sustainability and organic farming.
- With their clean and sustainable values they practice energy conservation, and zero and less waste strategies.
- They have 1000’s of choices. From socks to candles, fresh produce to garden supplies, supplements, baby products, bath & body products, cleaning products and more. You don’t need mega chain stores anymore, Azure Standard has got everything you need!
How It Works
Once you’ve shopped the Azure website or catalog, you can place your order and select whether you would like to have it delivered to your local drop point, or shipped to you.
If you do not have a drop point local to you, you can do a wonderful thing for your community by creating one. I created a drop point in the Midwest in St. Joseph Missouri several years back and eventually turned it over to a friend who runs it now. Drop point managers can even earn money doing this.
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