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!!Whole Earth Center (Princeton, New Jersey)
The Whole Earth Center is a non-profit natural foods grocery store in Princeton, NJ. It was founded in April of 1970, the same year as the first Earth Day, to provide sustainable choices to reduce harmful impacts on the environment. The founders were five women (Barbara Parmet, Florence Falk, Margot Sutherland, Hella McVay, and Susy Waterman) who raised $4,500 in a door-to-door, child-in-tow, funding campaign that enabled them purchase the center's initial stock of bulk foods.
The store's produce is 100% organic and, if possible, locally sourced within a 150-mile radius. The store carries hundreds of bulk items to reduce packaging waste, including spices, grains, beans, nuts, coffee, dried fruit, and household cleaners. There is a bakery providing bread and muffins made daily without preservatives and a deli serving fresh-made, vegan and vegetarian prepared foods. Thee is a peanut-butter-maker, where you put in fresh peanuts and they are immediately crushed into fresh peanut butter. Also on hard are specialty ingredients such as seaweed for macrobiotics, and some local grass-fed, pasture-raised, hormone- and antibiotic-free meats and fish.
To strengthen its mission, the non-profit organization also helps sponsor events about healthy eating and environmental preservation, including Bike to Work Week, in-store discussion groups on healthy living, Princeton Environmental Film Festival, Princeton School Gardens Cooperative, Random Acts of Community, The Suppers Program (now "Eating for your Health), The Town Topics newspaper, and the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen.
360 Nassau St. Princeton, NJ 08540