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Northeast Grown, 100% organic, fermented & raw pickles, sauerkraut, kimchi, kvass, and hot sauce

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Our Mission

We are committed to promoting human and ecological health by providing people with delicious, nourishing food and by working toward a regional, organic food system.

We aim to produce the highest quality, traditional pickled foods available, using natural fermentation. We buy our vegetables only from Northeast family farms and sell our products only within the Northeast. Our ingredients are 100% organic.

Benefits of a regional food system

  • Fresher, healthier food, raised with an emphasis on flavor and nutrition, rather than shelf life and transportability
  • Strong rural communities with profitable, sustainable family farms and plenty of green open space
  • Vast reductions in fossil fuel use for long-distance transport, resulting in less pollution and a more stable global climate
  • Strong local/regional economies, with more money circulating within our communities and regions, and more jobs created
  • A more democratic food system, in which people have more power to decide what food is available and how it is produced, resulting in a cleaner, safer, more diverse food supply

Benefits of an organic food system

  • Cleaner, safer food, free of pesticide residues, growth hormones, and genetic engineering;
  • Living, fertile soil, which leads to higher nutrient levels in our food and is essential to agricultural sustainability
  • Healthy ecosystems, rich in biodiversity and with clean waterways unpolluted by pesticide and fertilizer runoff

Read more about Real Pickles’ support of an organic and regional food system:

  • Meeting ‘The Beast’: A Field Trip to Martin’s Farm Composting
  • Supporting a Regional Food System: An Interview with Myers Produce
  • Calculating Food Miles at Real Pickles
  • Beyond Local: The Case for Regional Food
  • A Community Perspective: Keeping It Local!
  • Regional Distribution: An Interview with Joe Angello
  • Why Our Food System Needs the Occupy Movement
  • Occupy Wall Street and Organic Pickles

Read more about Real Pickles

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These are REAL pickles: naturally fermented withou These are REAL pickles: naturally fermented without vinegar. Organic and Northeast grown.  #ReelPickles 
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Thanks for featuring us in this AMAZING raw salad Thanks for featuring us in this AMAZING raw salad @perfectfoodsinc ! 

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BEST Raw Vegan Salad You’ll Ever Have👇

This salad is Day 1 of our raw vegan reset cleanse. Full recipes for the dressing and faux tuna and the rest of the week’s delicious recipes can be found in our cleanse 👉 link in bio to set up a free consultation.

Ingredients:
🌱 4 oz @perfectfoodsinc Sunflower Microgreens (chopped)
🌱 4 oz @perfectfoodsinc Pea Microgreens (chopped)
🥕 Carrots
🥬 Romaine Lettuce & Celery
🌞 Sunflower Faux Tuna
✨ @realpickles Sauerkraut
🥕 Carrot Ginger Dressing
🎃 Topped with pumpkin seeds and mung bean sprouts

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We are thrilled to introduce you all to TWO MORE m We are thrilled to introduce you all to TWO MORE member-owners of our co-op, Amy Laprade and Victor Signore! As a worker co-operative, Real Pickles is preserving our strong social mission, empowering our staff to direct the future of our business, and creating good local jobs with shared profits. 

Amy is part of our production team and our shipping and distribution team. Amy says “what excites me the most about becoming a worker owner at Real Pickles is the opportunity to build alliances with like-minded people, which can help shape the kind of community I wish to live in.” When Amy is not packing your orders and making ferments she likes to spend her time writing, doing hot yoga and spending quality time with her partner Geoff and their cat, Jack. 

Victor is the Real Pickles Vegetable Coordinator. He is responsible for maintaining our relationships with our farmers, helping to plan our starting season, ordering vegetables and so much more! He says that he is excited to be a part of something that is having a positive effect in supporting our local agriculture, local economy and our community. “Being a worker-owner means that I can help shape the future of Real Pickles and what our next steps may be as we face issues, such as climate change.” Victor is a musician, a visual artist and lives nearby with his partner, Mere and their sweet kitty Olalla.

We are so excited that our co-operative is expanding to include these excellent folks! Welcome Victor and Amy!

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Real Pickles is hiring a production assistant! Lin Real Pickles is hiring a production assistant! Link in bio for details! 

Real Pickles is a worker-owned co-operative in Greenfield, MA, producing organic fermented vegetables from Northeast-grown produce.  Our mission is to promote human and ecological health by providing people with delicious, nourishing food and by working toward a regional, organic food system in the Northeast.  As a co-op, each worker has the opportunity to become an owner of the business and participate in shaping its future.  We are strongly committed to creating good jobs that support the dignity of all workers in an equitable and inclusive workplace. 
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The time has come! Organic Dill Pickles are back f The time has come! Organic Dill Pickles are back for the season! Thank you to our farmers for such an abundant and beautiful start to the cucumber harvests! Fresh batches of pickles are making their way to your stores in the Northeast! Enjoy! 

*check out our store locator on our website. Link in bio.

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@leafandbeanfarm on Ask A Sista Farmer series this @leafandbeanfarm on Ask A Sista Farmer series this Friday at 4pm on Instagram Live @soulfirefarm - See you there! 

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See you this Friday at 4 PM for Ask a Sista Farmer!

Interested in making the jump from urban living to rural homesteading? Then join us for ASK A SISTA FARMER - EPISODE #38

On Friday, July 1 at 4 PM ET we are joined by Nivek Anderson-Brown of Leaf and Bean Farm, a homesteader and micro vegetable farmer from Virginia. Nivek will teach us the ins and outs of homesteading for self-sufficiency, and talk about the journey from urban to rural life. 

Learn more and follow @Leafandbeanfarm and Leafandbean.farm 

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Are you ready to grow your own food and medicine for self-reliance and community resilience? First Fridays, experienced Black womxn* farmers answer your chat questions about gardening, livestock, agroforestry, plant medicine, business operations, and food preservation. At the end of the show we have a GIVEAWAY to the person who wins our quiz. To free ourselves we must feed ourselves!

Ask A Sista Farmer centers the voices of Black, Indigenous, People-of-Color, Queer, Trans*, Disabled, Immigrant, and Poor communities. Everyone is welcome to watch and listen, but please make space for centered folks to ask questions and share. Thank you. 

Sista and womxn includes trans* and nonbinary folks

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