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Elgin Marafun 2013

Our team at TIO are always happy to help out worthy charities. Last weekend, several TIO staff took part in the 2013 Elgin Marafun, organised by the local Rotary club and sponsored by Diageo. With five...

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Food Dudes Programme a Big Success

Over 400,000 primary school children have now taken part in a programme aimed at encouraging young people to eat more fruit and vegetables. The Food Dudes programme is an initiative of the Department...

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Whole Foods Market: Ten Ways to Eat More Carrots

We have just stumbled across this great blog post from Whole Foods Market entitled ‘Ten Ways to Eat More Carrots’. Some of the great suggestions made include: Add a cup of chopped carrots to your...

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What do shampoo and antifreeze have in common?

Methylisothiazolinone, Phthalates, Parabens, PEGs – (polyethylene glycols, Non-natural Propylene Glycol (PG), Cocamide DEA… I could go on. You would wash the floor with some of these, clean your oven...

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A Great Personal Story: Love of Healthy Food

Marilyn Mason worked in Great Falls health food shops for 34 years, owned her own for 26 years and consolidated with a deli and bakery nine years ago. Mason, 65, got into the health food kick early and...

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A Dream Plan for Fast Food Establishments 2020

The current value menu at any fast food restaurant focuses on lots of food for minimal cash. The word “value” is clearly defined as getting a lot of something, in this example, calories, saturated fat,...

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Welcome to our new arrivals

The Happy Parents Cullen, our 3 year old farm dog, is now the proud father of 11 pups. Flora, his girlfriend of nearly 3 years, and also a flat coated retriever, is doing well. Flora lives in...

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A Sea of Poppies (and Carrots)

One of the great things about working with This Is Organics is the opportunity to get out of the office every now and then onto the farm.  The two pictures below were taken this week. A field on our...

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Henderson’s of Edinburgh Celebrates Salad Days of Organic Food Icon

Few of the daily diners in Henderson’s of Edinburgh will be aware of her name, but the vegetarian restaurant’s founder is being celebrated this week to mark the centenary of her birth. Janet Henderson...

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Organic Farming Advocate Comments on the Benefits of an Organic Food Diet

In response to an article published by the Wall Street Journal, Philippe van den Bossche, an organic farming advocate and Owner of Advancing Eco Agriculture, discusses the benefits of eating organic....

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Going NUTS for our Organic Carrots

At this time of year, our seventy strong workforce of students are busy hand weeding our organic carrot fields. Carrots are non-competitive crops and will lose out to weeds every time. Being organic,...

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Organic Midi Cucumbers for Whole Foods Market

At Tio we like to work with other local organic farmers to increase the range of organic produce we can offer our trade customers. The picture to the left shows our organic midi cucumbers growing in a...

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A Thank You to Tesco Forres

Forres recently hosted the European Pipe Band Championships. The Tesco Forres store had a Scottish sampling unit present, and our carrots were part of it. You can see our Bare Necessities carrot sticks...

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Peacocks on the Farm

Zeus Staying on the theme of farm animals (see our previous post Welcome Our New Arrivals), we have had a peacock roaming around the place for four years. His name is Zeus. Kirsty, our Commercial...

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Celebrate Scottish Food and Drink Fortnight, 7th-22nd September

The Annual Scottish Food & Drink Fortnight takes place between the 7th and 22nd of September. With over 200 events planned across Scotland, from farmer’s markets, special menus, cookery classes and...

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Puppies and Mum Doing Well

One of our recent blog posts introduced Cullen, our 3 year old farm dog, and his girlfriend Flora who had just become proud parents of 11 pups – 8 girls and 3 boys – Welcome to Our New Arrivals. As you...

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Double Cheeseburger: The World’s Most Nutritious Food?

According to New York Post columnist and economist Kyle Smith, a McDonalds double cheeseburger is ‘the cheapest, most nutritious and bountiful food that has ever existed in human history?’ Smith made...

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How To Cook With Carrots

Some great ideas on how to cook with carrots in this recent article in the Guardian Online - How to cook with carrots. Includes carrot and anise; carrot and parsley; carrot and cumin; carrot and...

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New Organic Trade Board Committee Members

The Organic Trade Board have recently announced their new and re-elected committee members for the period 2013-2016. These are: Simon Crichton, Organic Food and Farming at Triodos Bank; Richard...

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Make it an Organic September

The Soil Association is launching ‘Organic September – Small Changes, Big Difference’ to show the huge difference consumers can make by switching one household item to organic. Running throughout...

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