Hello eco-friends! I just wanted to stop in and tell you a little bit about what we do here at Taste of Green - An Organic Lifestyle™. We started this Eco-friendly community to get the word out about natural and organic food, local organic shopping, organic products, Eco-friendly living, green living information for college students. We’re a Eco-friendly community of pro-active people who are passionate about Green Living.

Well, that’s not us. We will consistently provide you with fresh, humorous, and witty commentary about our organic products, and living a healthy lifestyle. We also provide the latest Organic and Eco-friendly news and information that will keep you on the cutting edge of new trends and the best organic products or how to go green with our Eco-frienldy weekly green email.

We also encourage interaction with our friends as we develop this online Eco-friendly community. We provide blogs, RSS feeds, and user ratings and reviews for all of our organic products and organic news articles to ensure our organic information is fresh. We also provide publishing opportunities for aspiring amateur and professional journalists looking to get exposure and be a part of a truly unique organic website in the midst of what will no doubt be looked back on as the Organic Revolution.

With our edgy and fun attitude, we will produce and post funny videos and content that will keep you wanting more.

We also want to hear from you. If you have a suggestion, let us know. If you have a funny idea, let us know. If you think we are great, let your friends know. If you think we suck, let us know AND let your friends know (we can always use the traffic!).

We want this to be YOUR organic online community. Check back often as we will be constantly updating and improving our site and your feedback is crucial!

- Taste of Green Staff

P.S. Wait until you see our Save Little Billy video series! You will be forwarding it to your friends no doubt! See you soon. Laughing

Taste of Green - An Organic Lifestyle™ was founded in 2008 by two young professionals eager to tell the story of organic foods and food related products via a light, funny and easy to navigate and aesthetically pleasing organic online community.

The mission of Taste of Green is to become the premier web based Green community for environmentally conscious people. Taste of Green is dedicated to building long-term relationships with their friends through intuitive, qualitative, and timely delivery of pertinent environmental and health conscious products and information. We want to be recognized as the leading and most comprehensive organic information website and Eco-friendly community in the United States.

How Do I Know If It's Really Organic?

Certification is your best guarantee. Any reputable grower, processor, or retail store will use the organic label if the product has been certified by an independent third-party organization, either governmental or private.

In December 1997, the Department of Agriculture proposed new federal regulations on organic foods. When they are finalized, probably at the end of this year, the regulations will identify food grown without hormones, pesticides, or synthetic fertilizers as "organic." (The soil in which the produce is grown must have been "clean" for three years as well.) Processed foods that contain 50 to 95 percent organic ingredients may carry a "made with certain organic ingredients" label while products that are less than 50 percent organic may use the word organic only in the ingredients list. Until the regulations go into effect, "organic" can mean any number of things. Only about half of the states presently regulate organic food, and very little exists to prevent producers from applying the label "organic" to any food they wish. Currently, only "certified organic" products, verified by a private certification agency, are assured of being free of synthetic chemicals and harmful pesticides.