WELLNESS TOP 3: Manage Cholesterol Naturally
In honor of Heart Month, we've compiled a quick primer on some of the healthiest ways to regulate your body's cholesterol levels. 1. Ubiquinol. If you're on a statin (like 25% of American adults) you must take ubiquinol—the form of CoQ10 your body uses for energy...
CHARITY OF THE MONTH: Healing Headbands
For the second year in row, we are pleased to be supporting our February Charity of the Month: Healing Headbands. Harnessing the healing power of art and laughter, Sea Cliff-based Healing Headbands works with people with serious illnesses (children and adults) to...
RECIPES: Get a Flavor Kick (and a Healthy Heart) By Cooking with Raw Garlic
A garlic compound known as allicin can potentially reduce the risk of developing heart disease and help regulate high blood pressure and high cholesterol. Chopping or crushing the garlic clove and consuming it raw is the best way to reap the benefits. (On a side note:...
CHARITY OF THE MONTH: Volunteers for Wildlife
Volunteers for Wildlife is a nonprofit wildlife hospital and education center located on the grounds of Bailey Arboretum in Locust Valley. It’s mission: to rescue, rehabilitate, and release wild animals who have been injured, sick, or orphaned, and to educate the...
LOCAL FLAVOR: Coast to Coast Trail Mix
Two entrepreneurial brothers (both originally from Long Island) with a passion for trail mix are the driving force behind Coast to Coast organic trail mix. First there’s Drew, a vegan athlete and health and nutrition expert who in 2017 rode his bicycle coast to coast...
WELLNESS TOP 3: Supplemental Support for Vegetarians and Vegans
This time of year there's always a lot of talk about changing our diets for the better (healthier, cleaner, etc.) In particular, for both health and environmental reasons, more and more Americans are making the move toward a plant-based diet. There are some simple...
RECIPES: Cooking with Legumes, Nuts and Seeds
Some of the best sources of plant-based protein are also some of the most versatile when it comes to cooking delicious, healthy food. If you're looking to move more toward a plant-based diet, nuts, seeds and legumes will surely be your friends....and for good reason!...
What a Charitable Year: We Couldn’t Have Done It Without You
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Here at Rising Tide we're excited for another year of giving to the amazing charities right here in our own neighborhood. Year Two of our Charity of the Month program gave us the chance to meet a whole bunch of new people doing heroic work in this...
Rounding Up for the Holidays
It’s the giving season, and this year we're asking our customers to support the neediest in our community by helping provide for basic needs such as food and hygiene. For every purchase you make, we will give you the option of rounding up to the nearest dollar. All...
WELLNESS TOP 3: Be Zen for the Holidays
Stress this time of year is as ubiquitous as tinsel, cranberries and shelf elves. Whether it's anxiety about your growing to-do list, worrying about the money you're spending on gifts and festivities, or stress about time spent with family members that always,...
FEATURED PRODUCT: Tasty New Items from The Piggery
Early last month, we had the great pleasure of paying a visit to The Piggery butcher shop in Ithaca, NY. What we saw there was incredibly inspiring: Piggery owners and staff doing what they love and doing it with ingenuity and passion, raising some of the happiest...
LOCAL FLAVOR: Coastal Craft Kombucha
Like all good things, Coastal Craft Kombucha’s humble beginnings were driven by a passion for creativity and a love for food and health. Rachel Rappa (along with co-owner Daryn Stoger) founded Coastal Craft after falling in love with the health benefits of kombucha...
RECIPES: Not (Only) Your Grandmother’s Latke
Hanukkah's best-known food—the beloved potato latke (a.k.a. fried potato pancake)—is also a relatively recent addition to the festival-of-light festivities. Potatoes actually became part of the recipe in the mid-19th century, replacing pancakes made of cheese (usually...
CHARITY OF THE MONTH: Island Harvest Weekend Backpack Feeding Program
Founded in 1992, Island Harvest is Long Island’s largest hunger-relief organization, and plays a vital role in countering the sharply rising problem of hunger right here on the Island. Through its Kids Weekend Backpack Feeding Program, founded in 2006, Island Harvest...
RECIPES: How to Make an Amazing Vegan Thanksgiving
Vegans often get the short end of the Thanksgiving stick. Their hosts may forget that chicken stock and eggs aren’t vegan, and they're almost always left without dessert, save some fruit. This year, if we have our say, no vegan will be left behind! Follow a few simple...
FEATURED PRODUCT: Rising Tide’s Own Pumpkin Pie
If you've tried it, you might be wondering...what makes Rising Tide Pumpkin Pie so incredibly delicious? Three important things, according to Rising Tide's own Chef John. The uber sweet taste of condensed milk in most pumpkin pies is swapped out for the clean, fresh...
Rising Tide Presents Exciting New Juice Program
We're so excited to introduce our customers to our new and improved Organic Juice Bar! The reason for the reboot is simple: to provide you with the absolute best quality juices and juice products you'll find anywhere. Customize your own organic juice by choosing from...
LOCAL FLAVOR: Tierra Farm
Tierra Farm is a certified-organic manufacturer and distributor of nuts and dried fruits, located right here in New York State, 20 miles south of Albany. If you’ve enjoyed many of the nuts and dried fruits in our Bulk department then you already know…their products...