At Earth's General Store we offer visitors information and products that will help them reduce their ecological and social impact on the planet and all inhabitants. We are a distributor of information and knowledge, encouraging people to consume less, consume wisely, consume locally, consume fairly and love lots more! We do this by offering items that have beneficial advantages - local, certified organic, Fair Trade Certified, in bulk (less packaging), water and energy efficiency products, information, and support to act! We are attempting to offer a way of life that is balanced and respectful of the planet and all its creatures. I know this sounds a little wishy washy but I believe that is our ultimate goal in life - do as little harm as possible and leave the world better than when we arrived. One of the intimate ways that we interact with the environment is through the food we eat. We have the power to choose food that has less impact on the environment, society and other beings. We can eat less meat, choose food that is grown locally and organically and to buy in bulk. In February 2010 Earth’s General Store moved and expand our inventory to include food products. We now offer fresh, packaged, chilled and frozen organic products. We are a real Health Food Store - offering healthy food for your body, your spirit and the planet. We continue to carry the products that we have offered the citizens of Edmonton since 1991 like worms for composting, cloth diapers for the green parents, animal free personal care products, and reusable menstrual products. We have the most experience of any store or organization in Edmonton on green lifestyle. If you want to help make the world a better place Earth’s General Store may be of great assistance to help you along the path.

2012 - First Shipment of Organic Garden Seeds Have Arrived at Earth’s General Store

Today we received and put out for display our first shipment of organic garden seeds from Stellar Seeds. We have been offering Stellar Seeds for over 5 years now since a local seed company stopped producing seeds for us to sell. I like them.

We will be having more seeds from other suppliers coming in the next few weeks.

So if you want to get organic garden seeds in your hand so that you can start dreaming the garden dream step on down to our store and get some.

Sorry no Kale seeds yet!

- Posted January 20th, 2012

Price Comparison - Save-on Foods December 19th, 2011

Not only did I stop into Planet Organic to do some price comparisons on December 19th but I also checked out Save-On Foods (Calgary Trail and 78th Avenue).

I have posted the list of the products I recorded. The price difference for the items I recorded came out to a 14% price difference. Again showing that Earth’s General Store has some very good prices on Organic food and Natural Health products.

Activist Agenda Temporarily Delayed due to Email Protocol

When I started doing the Activist Agenda I used to do it up in Microsoft Word and cut and paste it into an email body and send it out to a list of people that expressed interest in receiving it. Then a few issue developed – Yahoo and other email providers started to block the sent messages.

So I paid for a service to handle the mailing of the AA. This worked out to over $40 a month and would still take about 10 hours to compile.

My friend Conrad Nobert came to the rescue and developed the present web based AA. This saved a lot of time and allowed more people to post their events directly to the AA.

The other day a certain aspect of my email for the store got blocked – anything with my phone number in it. It seems that Telus and/or someone out there that didn’t like the AA marked it as spam and a service flagged us. It was partly our fault because we have not cleaned up the email list for a very long time and there were several obsolete email addresses on our list.

Michael Kalmanovitch of Earth's General Store Talking on CTV Edmonton about Composting

This morning I went out to the CTV studios and did a short blurb on composting. There current book club book is about a young woman/girl (unsure about the age) who inherits a farm in BC and goes to live there. From my understanding the young woman is very green (both ways – has lots of environmentally friendly habits and is new to the world of farming/growing things).

One of the things she learns about is composting to make her soil healthier and nutritious for her plants. CTV called on me to talk about this aspect of the book.

You can check out the video clip here and then search for compost. It will take you directly to the segment.

Composting is one of the top ten things you can do to reduce your environmental impact and produce an excellent soild builder.

- Posted December 14th, 2011

Talk it up to support Earth's General Store

I appreciate that you are a customer of Earth’s General Store or at least aware of our store.

I would REALLY appreciate it if you would help spread the name of our store through your social groups – friends, family, co-workers and your social media circles – and encourage people to visit the store.

Let your circle know why the store is relevant to you.  Is it because we are local, we live what we ‘preach’, we are independent, we support many of aspects of the activist community that do not normally get support, we are knowledgeable, we have a good selection of organic products, we have on average the lowest prices for organic foods in Edmonton, that we have great staff, or whatever you think makes us unique or makes us relevant for you?

So please help us encourage more people to check us out. Use your social media tools like Facebook and Twitter (you can like us Facebook – Earth’s General Store or follow us on Twitter @EarthsGeneral). Internet reviews are good to help people find us so please review us on such sites as Yelp, Manta, Google, Hotfrog, or anywhere you can.

Thank you VERY MUCH!

- Posted December 11th, 2011

Organic Produce Being Contaminated by Pesticides!

There have been several stories in the media about organic produce having pesticide residual on them. A lot of time they don’t mention that this is not being cause on purpose but by the general poisoning of our environment by the chemical based agricultural system. Also the residual amount is less than 10% of what is found on conventional. I will take that reduction.

Some people that choose organic don’t only do it for their own well being but that they do not wish to see the planet being exposed to more toxic load than what it is presently trying to deal with. It also reduces the amount of pesticides that work in the field are exposed to. I like that!

The Certified Organic process has many protocols. If a product does not follow the protocol they cannot be considered organic.

Earth's General Store Extended Hours for the Holiday Season

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Saturday, December 17th - 9:00am to 6:00pm

Sunday, December 18th  - 9:00am to 6:00pm

December 19th – December 23rd - 9:00am to 9:00pm

Saturday, December 24th - 9:00am to 6:00pm

Sunday, December 25th – CLOSED - enjoy the holiday

Monday, December 26th - 12:00pm to 6:00pm

Gift Cards/Certificates available (any denomination) from Earth's General Store

Can’t figure out what that eco person on your Christmas list would like as a gift? You are not alone. Many people turn to gift cards for those hard to buy for people and Earth’s General Store is here to help buy for a certain segment of our society.

We have products and food for the vegan, vegetarian, gluten free/celiac, book worm, new parents/new baby, eco conscious, lactose intolerant, cruelty free, raw foodists, juicers, health conscious, whole fooders, etc on your list.

So if you are unsure what to choose for your friends perhaps a gift card would help.

- Posted December 10th, 2011

New Items and Items of Interest - Lots of Raw items, Calendars, Coconut Oils

We continue to expand the product offerings in our store. I have not sent out a new list for some time so I am going to do that today… here goes:

Price Comparison - Planet Organic and Earth's General Store - December 1st, 2011

Though it was not the best time for me to spend an hour walking around Planet Organic writing down prices I just had to do it since I was in the neighbourhood and I have been promising myself for quite awhile that I would do it… soon.

I appreciate the staff at Planet Organic not kicking me out while I was recording these prices. They have always been quite helpful – always checking in to see if I needed help with anything.

Please note that the bulk pricing at Planet Organic is priced per 100 grams while at Earth’s General Store it is normally priced per kilogram. I have adjusted the Earth’s General Store to reflect the pricing per 100 grams. My personal feeling about pricing things this way is that it deceives the customer since get the perception that it is not much money – i.e. $2.50/100 grams seems a little more acceptable than $25.00 per kilogram. I suspect that gas service stations will consider selling gasoline in decilitres so that the price doesn’t seem so much.

I have had several people comment on our prices at the store – that they are very pleased with the lower prices than those they experience at Planet Organic.

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