Looking for the perfect card? For a variety of creative card giving ideas look no further than Linden Hills Co-op and Natural Home! You’ll find many beautiful, thoughtful, and humorous choices whether looking for a specific holiday card, a birthday card or just a “thinking of you” card. And as an added bonus all of are cards are made with recyled or tree-free paper, reclaimed wood and soy inks.

Vessel Drinkware is committed to ending the use of plastic bottles one vessel at a time. The company has created stainless steel water bottles and coffee tumblers, and double-wall porcelain coffee mugs with eye-catching designs that are printed with organic, lead-free inks.

And Vessel Drinkware has partnered with The Water Project, Inc., a non-profit organization providing clean, safe drinking water to people in the developing world by building wells and water tanks.

Sunleaf Naturals, scented with 100% essential oils, are made in Waconia, Minnesota. They use all-natural ingredients, no petroleum, lead-free wicks, and lots of creativity. Sunleaf also makes all-natural dish and hand soaps, fire starters and reed diffusers—deliciously scented! On sale 15% off through February!

Love the earth, love yourself, love your Love Bottle! Love Bottle is a glass bottle with a ceramic lid for your beverage of choice. Because they are glass there is no leaching of dangerous chemicals. Also they can be used for water or juice or whatever cold beverage you choose each day!

Linden Hills Natural Home loves companies that creatively recycle and reuse materials. Minneapolis’s Wood from the Hood was started by self-described “avid recycler” Cindy Siewert and husband Rick. They collect locally harvested trees that would otherwise become mulch and make beautiful cutting boards and picture frames.

Because the cutting boards can only be mad from hard woods and most of the city trees tend to be softer, it can be hard to find reclaimed Minneapolis trees in the mix—but we invite you to stop by and take a look! Cindy and Rick do a lovely job with local wood.

Linden Hills Co-op is pleased to feature one of our favorite chocolate suppliers: Taza.

Taza is a small bean-to-bar chocolate maker, and the only producer in the US of 100% stone ground, organic chocolate. They roast, winnow, grind, temper, and mold their chocolate in house and by hand.

SnackTAXIs are a fun way to reduce your use of plastics. Invented by a Massachusetts mom who packs over 500 lunches a year, just one of these washable, reusable, colorful bags can eliminate an average of 1,000 (!) plastic bags over it’s lifetime.

They come in two sizes, Snack and Sandwich, and a wide variety of patterns and colors (including some very pretty Pucci-esque paisleys for grown-up users), and are completely machine-washable. The Snack size is just perfect for a pile of Annie’s Cheddar Bunnies.

Check out our selection of fun colors and patterns at Linden Hills Natural Home.

Galen Labs’ founder and Minneapolis resident Kevin Olson started mixing up natural skin products in his home as an adolescent. “The first great product I made was a body scrub with olive oil, sugar, and lavender flowers from our garden; my mother loved it.”

Olson’s search for the perfect skin and body care solutions has turned him into a life-long natural product aficionado. Becoming more and more disenchanted with the performance of the products on the market, he started scrutinizing over their labels and questioning the purpose of so many ingredients.

Local Babies Can’t Stop Babbling About Sweet Cheeks Baby Food

Sweet Cheeks Baby Food is the first locally made, locally sourced organic baby food in the Twin Cities. Made by hand in small batches in St Paul Minnesota, Sweet Cheeks Baby Food will change the way you feed your favorite small folks! Try some Wednesday, August 5 between 1 and 1.

Sweet Cheeks owner Lori Karis works directly with Minnesota suppliers to source ingredients for her organic baby food line, including Old Orchard farms: a small family organic farm in Northfield; and Whole Grain Milling in Welcome, Minnesota.

Rufus, Jacob and Jessica Haucke
Viola, Wisconsin

Keewaydin Farm was founded in 1976 by Richard and Mary Haucke. The Hauckes considered themselves stewards of the land and for several decades, ran a sustainable grass-based dairy enterprise while raising their three children. IN 2002, after years of travel and exploration, the adult Haucke children returned to Keewaydin to create a viable, certified organic family farm. In addition to a 40-cow dairy, the farm includes a 10-acre market garden, and a maple sugar shack. The family also raises chickens, heritage turkeys and pork.