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by Megan, September 10, 2009 | Permalink
Today 5% of our net profits will benefit the new Healing garden at Meridian Park Hospital. Which nonprofits are you connected with in the Tigard/Tualatin/Lake Oswego area?
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by Megan, April 30, 2009 | Permalink
This past week our store hosted Bee Appreciation Week. We had various fun activities throughout the week supporting honey bee awareness. Saturday was the busiest day so far with our main event at the entrance of our store. It included; Matt Reed from Beethinking.com brought in his observation hive, seed planting and cookie decorating for the kids, Haagen Dazs Vanilla Honey Bee Ice Cream tasting, compost and recycling sorting activity, and even a spelling bee. We also had a vendor in with Italian honey, another with local honey, and another with honey vinegar. It was a great way to top of a fun week of spreading knowledge about honey bees.
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by Megan, April 22, 2009 | Permalink
We here at Whole Foods Market are excited to be celebrating Earth Day today! Our team members are dressed in green apparel to show their support for mother earth. Some team members even used re-usable bags to create articles of clothing such as vests and hats!
We are also having a 5% day in honor of ‘Growing Gardens.’ This organization helps families with low incomes start a garden that will provide them with long term healthy nourishment. We’ve also been teaching classes throughout the day in our store about recycling, composting, and living green.
Come in and join us!
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by Megan, April 16, 2009 | Permalink
Join us this weekend as yet again we have great events lined up in honor of Earth month! Stop by on Saturday the 28th for a lesson on Green Cleaning. Christine and Megan will be demonstrating how to make your own Green Cleaning products out of simple household ingredients. Demonstration at 11AM and most likely again at 1PM.
On Sunday we will be holding our Perfect for Prom event! We will be doing ‘green’ makeovers here in or store bewteen 1PM and 4 PM. We’ll also be featuring green products from our Whole Body Department to make sure you look your best on your big day. Stop and by and check it out!
See you at the store!
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by Megan, April 9, 2009 | Permalink
Do the Green Thing by joining us this Saturday April 11th from 12-3PM for our Lower your Carbon Footprint Local Vendor Fair. Our store will be scattered with local vendors sampling great food and drink as well as educating everyone on ways we can reduce our carbon footprint.
Vendors on site Saturday include: Black Horse, Dragonfly Chai, Emerald Valley Kitchen, Grand Central Bakery, Ice La Creme, Oregon Dan’s Sauce, Oregon Hill Farms, Purely Decadent Coconut Ice Cream, Ruby Jewel, and Willamette Valley Vinyards with the possibillity of a few other vendors jumping on board soon.
See you Saturday!
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by Megan, April 4, 2009 | Permalink
If you’re free on Sunday make sure to stop by Whole Foods Market Bridgeport as we will be hosting our Grass Fed Beef Event! Those who made it in today and had the privilage of experiencing today’s Sustainable Seafood Event will get more of the same Sunday from 12-3!
Grass-fed beef provides cleaner water, less soil erosion, enhances and maintains landscape and is lower in fat and higher in omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids than conventional beef. We’ll also have information on Country National Beef, our partner in supplying safe and heathly food for our families.
Chef Gayle will be serving seared sirloin with arugula, parmigiano-reggiano, and oven roasted tomatoes while Chef Amy welcomes all with her ancho and cocoa fajitas. We’ll have wine samples as well as some great information to pass along!
See you Sunday!
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by Megan, April 4, 2009 | Permalink
Today was our Sustainable Seafood Event! In case you missed it we served some great food and wines while educating everyone on sustainability.
Chef Gayle wowed all guests with her Chilean Sea Bass. It featured fennel, tomatoe, and saffron and was served with a orange zested fruit and nut cous cous. Amy also served a wonderful halibut ceviche which was quite a hit!
We also sampled a white wine from South America as well as a Spnaish Rose, each complimenting the seafood served. Christine provided information to all regarding seafood sustainability and aqua culture.
See you tomorrow for our Grass Fed Beef Event!
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by Megan, April 3, 2009 | Permalink
We here at Whole Foods Bridgeport are excited for the kick off of Earth Month! Below you will find an extensive list of the fun events we have lined up in our store for the month of April in honor of Earth Month. Check back in the days leading up to these events for more detailed information…
April 4th: Focus on Sustainable Seafood; cooking demonstrations and information about our MSC and Farm Raised Seafood. 2-5pm
April 5th: Focus on Grass-fed Beef: Grass-fed beef provides cleaner water, less soil erosion, enhances and maintains landscapes and is lower in fat and higher in omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids than conventional beef. Taste and learn from 2-5pm.
April 11th: Lower your Carbon Footprint Local Taste Fair. Five vendors confirmed so far. 12-3pm
April 13th: Visit from ‘Run for One planet.’ Two runners on a year long trek around North America to inspire environmental action will be here to sign people up for the ‘Environmental Action Challenge.’ They’ll run the equivalent of a marathon every day beginning May 4th. 4-6pm
April 18th: Lower your Carbon Footprint; eat one vegetarian meal a week. Focus on local and organic produce. 2-5pm.
April 18th: Green Cleaning; making your own cleaners at home. Christine and Megan giving on the floor demo twice that day at 11am and 1pm.
April 19th: Perfect for Prom; green makeovers. Focus on our Whole Body Department, ‘Teens Turning Green’ products. 1-4pm
April 22nd: Earth Day; 5% of our profits go to ‘Growing Gardens.’ This organization helps families with low incomes start a garden that will provide them with fresh fruits and vegetables.
April 20th-26th: Honey Bee appreciation week. Burt’s Bees lip balm swap Wednesday, seed planting of plants that attract bees on the weekend, focus on produce that needs bee pollination in order to survive, honey tasting, Haagen Dazs ‘vanilla honey bee’ tasting, honey bee trivia, kids paper bee hunt around the store, and much more.
See you at the store!
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by Megan, March 28, 2009 | Permalink
Greetings and welcome to Whole Food Market Bridgeport’s very own Blog! We are glad you took time from your day to check out our website and find your way here. The goal of our blog is to keep everyone informed on everything happening locally at our Whole Foods Market and share our love for healthy foods with our community!
We’ll post anything that’s relevant to our store such as; special in store events, monthly store themes, release of new local products, Green Mission/Whole Planet foundation updates, community events, and maybe even some fantastic recipes!
We are very excited to open this road of communication between our Team Members and our community. Any feedback or comments are always appreciated and welcomed. Also, if you can’t get enough electronic updates from WFM Bridgeport, we are looking to spread the good word via Facebook as well as Twitter. We will have links to those pages posted on this blog just as soon as they are up and running!
The WFM Bridgeport Team
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