In my last post for Blog Action Day, I touched on a point about finding opportunities to eat locally – both positively impacting your health as well as the environment. One of the places in the DC Metro area that has been consistently providing this opportunity to the public is a store called Ellwood Thompson’s. After growing their loyal community of customers in the Virginia area, they are now expanding out into Washington DC. Ellwood is excited about moving toward their 20th anniversary and their new DC location will serve the Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant neighborhoods. The new store will be located in the DC USA development at 14th and Irving Streets, NW adjacent to the Columbia Heights Metro station.
“We’ve been interested in the communities along the 14th Street corridor as the home for our second store for quite some time,” says Ryan Youngman of Ellwood Thompson’s. “We walked the community and talked to the people. The overwhelming support we received from residents confirmed this is the perfect place to expand. Our commitment to environmental sustainability and conservation along with organics and clean local food is a perfect fit for these neighborhoods.”
After meeting Liz, the author of SuperEcoLog this past week and chatting about sustainable eating habits, I became more interested in this movement. Liz recently wrote about Michael Pollan, author of the best selling books on eating well and how he has challenged the next President to make some drastic changes within the food industry. Many of my readers know that childhood obesity is one of the areas of public health that strike a chord with me. There are many aspects of our activity levels and eating habits that are adversely affecting our health – our children are carrying the torch of our mistakes into the next generation. If we don’t begin making changes for our health and for our environment, I think we all can understand the dire consequences.
I personally look forward to checking out some of Ellwood Thompson’s offerings and making those changes in my own family’s life. Interested in learning more about Ellwood and what they are up to? Check out their blog and also these videos:
Ellwood Thompsons // At A Glance from Ellwood Thompson’s on Vimeo.
Ellwood Thompsons // Employees from Ellwood Thompson’s on Vimeo.
With Pulse and Signal, I want to help reinvent the methods and thinking behind effective health education and communication. We need to start thinking about environmental health as a topic of focus along with the more common issues of disease prevention. It all ties together. For additional places to learn about sustainable living and eating check these sites out and spread the word within your community:
American Farmland Trust
Sustainable Table
The Green Guide
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Andre ~ thank you so much for sharing this news with your readers. As you know, I am a representative of Ellwood’s via JESS3… all of us are so excited to be able to share this kind of freshness and real-deal-approach to food to the DC area.
Look forward to keeping you and your readers in the loop.
Thanks again!
Leslie
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