Working with What You’ve Got: Have you found yourself having to alter your meal planning during this stay-at-home season? We have a few tips we’d like to share that could help simplify healthy eating during this crazy time. As a matter of fact, we think you might even take a few of these ideas with you […]
You’ve seen those fluorescent grocery aisles with waxed apples and plastic-wrapped wilted vegetables? Around every corner, shelves overflow with genetically-modified produce. Each product has traveled thousands of miles across the country smothered in chemicals all under the label “fresh,” but modified to last longer on the shelf. Within these products pesticides linger and GMOs hide […]
Most of us don’t plan our grocery trips. We walk in and grab a cart, then do what we have always done. Follow the same route. The truth is, grocery stores are designed to shape the way you shop. Fresh foods are often placed around the outside, while the center aisles are packed with boxed, […]
It’s hard to ignore the pressure building around the Puget Sound region as we anticipate the start of the FIFA World Cup in June. Seattle is hosting 6 games across 3 weeks, and the city has pulled out all the stops. You know it’s a big deal when Seattle is forcing pauses on all construction projects and roadworks during the next month, requiring roads and sidewalks to be cleaned up. I […]
It seems we can hardly go a day without hearing about some newfangled way that Artificial Intelligence is going to take all our jobs, then give us lives of all play and no work, then ultimately end humanity as we know it. Whether we like it or not, we now have new terms to keep […]
Support a local business and add a boost of flavor to your next Box of Good delivery with the tiny but mighty plant shoots from Better Boat Farms, available now! Open your next box and find these vibrant greens, harvested from Whidbey Island’s shores. New to shoots? Select your first box with Better Boat Farms […]
Why choose local when it comes to the increasing options for produce delivery? The marketing has been loud from some national mega companies, encouraging consumers to purchase produce that is ugly or imperfect in order to address our country’s food waste epidemic. However, the source of our country’s food waste stems from our broken food system […]
Tobin Fekkes is in no short supply of “soap box” moments when it comes to talking about locally sourced food and supporting farmers. Fekkes said he doesn’t remember when the passion began, but it’s driven him to become the owner of Box of Good Foods along with his wife, Emily Fekkes. Box of Good is […]
I have a favorite sweater that is head and shoulders better than any other sweater, and so much so, that I point out to Emily anytime I see another version of my sweater on a stranger out in the wild. It’s a little game I play. It’s similar to when someone in my family starts […]
What if when we shopped for food or went to a restaurant, we ordered exactly the items that we ate. I mean exactly. You would be asking for things like red dye 5, or thiamin mononitrate. Can you imagine saying those words out loud and not only saying them, asking for someone to bring it […]
I was flying from Connecticut to Seattle the other day, coming home from a funeral. We left the east coast at 6pm, so we got to experience the most incredibly vibrant orange and pink sunset as we took off, then very soon darkness settled over us and I got a glimpse of the entire country […]
Tobin and I have been thinking a lot about community lately. About what community really is and means. Sometimes it seems that word can be thrown around, just to make you believe that whatever they are doing is good, because they believe in ‘community’. But we’ve been thinking about, and also seeing, what community is. […]
Emily and I spent Father’s day with her family perusing around a used bookstore, and not just any used bookstore. The kind of bookstore where you must be careful where you walk, and keep your arms in tight, lest you knock over piles of books. I was not successful at this, as simply brushing one […]
Many years ago, I came across this lecture on the patterns and styles of architecture through the ages. Of course, I can’t for the life of me find it again, not even with the Mighty Google. The main point of the lecture was that the prominent pieces of each generation of architecture, the ones that […]
A couple years ago, a friend of a friend (and fellow Box of Good recipient!) was moving her small business to Snohomish, and she contracted me to set up all the technology for her new retail store. Before the computers, printers, Wi-Fi, POS station, credit card readers, and receipt printer worked, we needed to get […]
The Food and Drug Administration publishes the changes to our nutrition laws on their website, and it can be a dull read sometimes. Each year, the FDA makes changes to the National Register, which makes them part of the Law across the Land. I don’t know many people that keep up to date with the […]
Every once in a while, a phrase makes it into our global lexicon. These phrases are usually tied to an event or time that we all collectively associate. We can often remember exactly where we were and what we were doing. I remember learning a new phrase soon after September 11th, 2001, where all the […]
