LOCAL FLAVOR: Chaga Island Tea
Chaga mushrooms are a fungus that grows on hardwood trees in cold, northern forests, used by Russians and Scandinavians for centuries to treat everything from digestive issues to cancer. We had the opportunity to speak with Plainview-based Chaga Island Tea, to learn...
FEATURED PRODUCT: Organic Valley Eggs
The best, most nutritious eggs come from free-range, cage-free chickens. That's why all Organic Valley chickens have access to green, organic pastures, where they spend their days clucking, strutting and pecking at bugs and earthworms. On rainy days, the chickens stay...
SUMMER AIN’T OVER YET: What to Do Before It’s Officially Fall
We're almost there; we've already had our "false fall" where we got our first glimpse of cooler temps, and as school begins and new routines are implemented, we start to feel the warm, laid-back beauty of summer begin to fade. But it's not over yet! Summer is...
RECIPES: Farmers Market Bounty Makes Great Fall Cooking
If you're lucky, you've visited a local farmers market lately and seen that the produce is bountiful! Fall is harvest time, and perhaps the BEST time to enjoy all the delicious, nutritious local fruits and veggies. At Rising Tide Market, we're lucky to feature local,...
LOCAL FLAVOR: Maxim Hygiene Products
Kenneth Alvandi spent a quarter century building up a small distribution company into a factory that manufactured some of the feminine products in its distribution portfolio. In 2006, five years into Alvandi’s manufacturing venture, making conventional products for...
RECIPES: Cooking with late-summer tomatoes
This is peak tomato season, time for the best of the best of these juicy, succulent specimens to take center stage. Hit the farmer’s markets, your backyard garden, or the 100% organic produce department at Rising Tide…wherever your tomatoes come from, use these simple...
WELLNESS TOP 3: Get off to a healthy school year
The start of a new school year brings with it many exciting changes, Confinement indoors much of the day also brings with it the inevitable colds, flu and other viruses passed from one well meaning child to the next. Children are exposed to millions of germs at...
NEW: Evanhealy Skin Care
You may have noticed, our health and beauty department is undergoing a renaissance. While we're still carrying the tried and true brands that we know you love, we recently cleared some space for exciting new brands that really speak to our mission and values....
CHARITY OF THE MONTH: Glen Cove Youth Bureau Fill-a-Bookbag Drive
We're excited to introduce our August Charity of the Month: the Fill-a-Bookbag Drive sponsored by the Glen Cove Youth Bureau. This is the second time we're supporting this bookbag and school supplies drive, a critical effort for this local nonprofit. The...
Green Your Back-to-School Routine
Summer's not over yet! In fact, if you like the sultry heat, we still have some of the best days of the season ahead of us. That being said, if you have children, it's probably not too soon to start thinking about back to school. The yearly preparation for a...
INDEPENDENCE FOR INDEPENDENTS
It's July, and Rising Tide is Celebrating Shopping Local! It's Independent Retailer Month, the perfect time for us to say what it means to us to be an independent business, planting roots in this community for 43 years. We love being your independent health food...
WELLNESS TOP 3: Clean Up with These New Soaps
At Rising Tide, we're ever on the lookout for the best products in every category; those that will bring joy and health to your lives, while doing no harm to the planet. This month we're excited to introduce you to three clean, new additions to our soap lineup. Sudsy,...
RECIPES: Get Wild with Watermelon
We all love eating refreshing (hydrating, cancer-fighting, heart healthy) slices of plain watermelon. But that's not all you can do with the juicy, pink fruit! Use the recipes below to work watermelon into your next summer gathering. Soups & Starters Watermelon...
LOCAL FLAVOR: Night Owl Baker
At the farmers markets in Santa Monica, CA and Union Square, NY, SoCal native Tracy Stoloff discovered a healthier, more nutritious and creative approach to nourishing and feeding her family. It was here that she discovered naturally fermented, wild yeasted...
FEATURED PRODUCT: Alden’s Round Ice Cream Sammies
Alden's Organic Ice Cream is sensational, standing head and shoulders above other ice creams. And more importantly...it is so very clean, made at their own facility in Orgeon with only ingredients your grandmother would recognize. Plus it's organic, so there are no...
CHARITY OF THE MONTH: Girls Rising
We are excited to announce our July Charity of the Month: Girls Rising. This nonprofit organization was created by the Sea Cliff-based all-female rock band, Antigone Rising, to empower and inspire girls and LGBTQ kids to pursue careers in STEAM fields. Girls Rising...
CHARITY OF THE MONTH: Glen Cove Boys & Girls Club
We are so excited to announce our June Charity of the Month: The Glen Cove Boys & Girls Club. We've chosen to support this organization multiple times because we have so much respect for their commitment to the children in this community. The Club serves nearly...
HEMP HISTORY WEEK: Add Hemp to Your Life!
Hemp History Week is June 3-9! Join us in the 10th celebration of hemp (this year's theme: The Return of the Plant!) and celebrate its many uses. Did you know...hemp is more than just a healthy whole food source of plant-based protein? It's also a growing U.S....