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About Brown Box Organics

A Family Business - A Company History

Brown Box Organics Company was established 2006 in the Treasure Valley and it has been quite the journey to get here. Our resume actually begins in Washington State working with an organic farm and delivery service. We worked on the farm part time and in the meantime enjoyed a bounty of fresh foods and good health. In 2001 we were planning a move to Redding California for continued education. There we found a scattered array of organic farmers with little outlet for sales. With the simple idea that pure and healthy food should be made available and convenient to everybody we began a local service delivering organic produce from the organic farms to our customer's doorstep. That company, Country Organics, was born and began delivering fresh organic produce in July of 2002. In 2005 we were ready to settle down near family. We prayed about it and were lead to pass our business on to the Edmondson family who are the current owner/operators of Country Organics.

It was now time to move on home to the Treasure Valley - diploma in hand. There was a significant need in the Boise area to unite the local farmers and provide a more convenient outlet for consumers to obtain healthy food. Thus the birth of our new company!

Our new venture was named after our family name, Brown Box Organics Company. We began delivery in July 2006. Today we continue to strive to help make pure foods a part of everyday life for your family and ours. Our hope is that you'll begin to enjoy not only the best in healthy produce, but improved health and quality of life as well. - The Brown Family

My Story of Transition - A Personal History

Farms across the globe are transitioning to organic. In order to make this transition the land must be made healthier through healthy life building techniques (usually umbrella'd under terms like organic farming or sustainable farming). This transition usually takes at least five years and during that time the produce sold must be labeled as non-organic or transitional. There is no rushing this process of building up the soils nutrients and allowing the past damage to be washed and worn away. Although we don't currently purchase any transitional produce we have supported farms though out the process in the past. We would usually only consider this in cases where the land was already sustainably farmed, but the farmers decided to go for the organic label because growth in production. Although transition is an important cause as the health of individuals is the real goal for BBOC. That is why we buy from Certified Organic farms.

I have found that like contaminated soil transitions to healthy growing soil over time, so has my own diet slowly changed and my health improved. I first discovered the life changing health benefits of eating organic over a decade ago. Raised in the city, most of the food I ate growing up was from the super market. I thought very little about where it came from. I assumed, as many do that the bright and shiny exterior of the produce in each isle was both nutritious and safe. When I struggled with regularly monthly infections, seasonal allergies, infertility and viruses in my 20's I thought it was normal. Many of the people I worked with had equal, if different, health difficulties that they dealt with daily. We were all treating our symptoms with western medicine and failing to question how we might help the problems behind the suffering.

Through our church, I met a great family and we became fast friends. They were organic farmers. The way of life was new to me. I enjoyed the peaceful noises of their family farm and they asked me and my husband to help out part-time. Naturally we began purchasing produce from them since we were there all the time and they were our friends.

Surprising Changes ----------------------------------------------

After about two months all of my health problems began fading. I cancelled my plans to have a tonsillectomy surgery hoping that this good luck would continue. After several more months it dawned on me that I felt well. Nothing was hurting and I didn't feel run down and tired. My constant struggle with extra weight had seemingly regulated itself. The most surprising news was that I was pregnant! All of this was new and it felt good! I continued to ponder this marked change as my good health continued.

Over then next year I realized that the only thing that had changed was my diet. We had transitioned to all organic produce and were eating more fresh foods than ever before. We were also adding organic staple foods little by little. When this realization fully sank in, I dove head first in to learning why organic foods are different and how I could share the treasure of good health with others. Our organic passion had begun and our good health has continued ever since.

We have since been very blessed to remain in good health with three healthy children (that's the biggest blessing of all). We continue to learn more about organic nutrition and farming. Although I don't believe that eating organic is a "cure all" we do believe that "you are what you eat" and that organic foods should be a part of a healthy diet. I have been very blessed to meet many people that have experienced amazing health improvements by altering their diet. Organic foods have changed my life and I hope they will change yours also!

With Health,
Rachel Brown