It’s called the AeroPress and it works on the same concept of an Espresso Maker. The water is heated to a very precise 175 degrees Fahrenheit, coffee ground fine, stir for 10 seconds, and plunge immediately for 20 seconds. The combination of 175 degree water, very little time for the coffee to sit in the [...]
Get Busy With The Fizzy
If you are from the European side of the world you would know about the Soda Stream soda maker. This is a product that could have and will change the way people consume beverages in Canada. Getting the fizzy into your own water is as simple as CO2, and takes seconds! If you want to [...]
Hazelwood Necklaces
We did not know this product existed before a customer came into the store asking for them. They were from out of town (Quebec) and had forgotten their son’s necklace at home and needed one. When we looked into Hazelwood and what it is used for we became very excited to try them out. So [...]
Abeego Food Wraps
So I was in Victoria this weekend and went to the Government Street Market and discovered this AMAZING product, I just had to have these in my store! Handmade locally by Toni, these Beeswax wraps are reuseable, biodegradable and super cool. They come in 3 different styles, wrap style, snack style and flat style (no [...]
Summer Time
Summer is finally here and we here at Organic Family are getting ready to hit the road. Starting this weekend at Island Musicfest, we are spending the next 6 weeks spreading our Love for all things ecological to other like minded people. Please come visit our store as it is ever evolving with new exciting [...]
Why Organic?
Here are just a few good reasons.: • Organic cotton is grown and harvested without pesticides, fungicides, herbicides and chemical fertilisers. • Conventional cotton is the second most heavily sprayed crop and fourth heaviest user of synthetic fertilizer, one t-shirt requires: 7 tsp of synthetic fertiliser, ¾ tsp of active ingredients: pesticides, herbicides, insecticides and [...]
SIGG Water Bottles
1.0l Sigg water bottle. Water based enamel lining. Your water will always taste like water!
Kanoe Baby Hammock
We call this item the “Sleep Saver”. Everyone we know that has purchased this item has come back to tell us how great their baby sleeps in this hammock, and how easy it is to get them back to sleep when they do wake up. This item can be used from when your baby is [...]
The story of us:
Julie and Brian first met in the Summer of 2003 while working at Camp Winston, a special needs camp in the Muskoka area of Ontario. They spent the year working together both at camp and at Blooming Acres, a residential home school for children with a wide variety of special needs. The following year they packed up Brian’s 1972 VW bus and Julie’s rabbit (Bilbo) and headed out on a journey across Canada. They knew they would live in British Columbia, but first wanted to see the rest of Canada. So they spent 6 weeks travelling to Nova Scotia, down to Boston and New York and back to Toronto before finally heading to the west coast. Brian had lived in BC before and had visited a beautiful place that had mountains, ocean and forest which met all of their requirements for the ideal place to live. The destination was the Comox Valley.
Over the course of 3 years they: lived on the ocean, became foster parents, added many animals to their family and bought a house in Cumberland. They fell in love with Cumberland because of it’s great atmosphere, proximity to a wide variety of forest trails and Brian especially liked the music scene. When Julie became pregnant with their son Kailan, their world began to quickly shift. Suddenly the need to eat and live more organically (they had already started this process) became a top priority. In order to get some of the things they needed/wanted for their home and child they needed to travel to Victoria or Vancouver. They decided that more people in their community should have easier access to these products, and so it began.
Organic Family opened for business on March 28th, 2008….and the story continues to unfold.
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