Gold Winner Planet Organic Silver Winner Super Natural Health Products Bronze Winner Healthy Bug Sick of wandering the aisles of the grocery store woefully returning packages to the shelf with disappointment? Planet Organic offers a respite from high-fructose corn syrup and vegetables swaddled in plastic. Customers looking for agave syrup, biodegradable laundry detergent or organic […]
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Best Health Food Store
Though Planet Organic is a health-food store, it’s also kind of like a pharmacy, but without the drugs. You can walk up to the counter at Planet Organic, tell a staff member your ailment and then have a natural remedy recommended to you. Along with knowing everything there is to know about fruits and veggies, […]
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Best Health Food Store
Reports of financial woes at the head office—Planet Organic is headquartered in Edmonton—hasn’t slowed things down at all at the Halifax location, which has been a repeat winner in this category for years. The store’s fresh produce, organic food, deep selection of vitamins, supplements and the friendly, informed staff is what keeps the store buzzing […]
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Georgia Barnwell’s Soup
As these words are being typed, snow is swirling outside the office window. Sigh. Sounds like time for soup. Living Soup! Georgia Barnwell, local raw food expert, is giving a mini-workshop at Planet Organic (6485 Quinpool Road, 425-7400) on Saturday, December 5 from 1pm to 2:30pm on soup. “We will be making, and tasting, a […]
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Assembling a local picnic basket
Sunday August 30 is the Incredible Picnic, the province-wide celebration of local food. At the Halifax location, on the Garrison Grounds, onsite vendors will have samples, but the truly adventuresome will bring their own picnic baskets. You can’t, however, rely on imported picnic staples like watermelon. Fortunately, savvy Maritime entrepreneurs make eating locally easier. Starters […]
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Best Health Food Store
What makes Planet Organic the go-to spot for those who pay special attention to their diet is an approachable, informed staff and a wide selection of everything from supplements to fresh produce to organic meats to envirnonmentally friendly cleaning products. And if you’re making the change to foods that will be kinder to your system, […]
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Best Health Food Store
With the mainstreaming of organic foods and naturopathic health movement, so has Planet Organic stretched across Canada, and where the health food and supplement stores were once small and quaint, now they are roomy and packed with goods. “We have the largest selection,” says Nick Smith, grocery manager, of being The Coast readers’ favourite health […]