LOCAL FLAVOR: RT Speaks with The Piggery
With such a carefully curated meat department, we need to be super selective about which vendors we bring in to the store, and which products we feel will best serve our customers. The Piggery, based just a few hours north in Ithaca, NY, meets every single one of our...
CLEAN SLATE: Start the Year Off with Rising Tide at Our Annual Jan. 1st Bash
With New Year's Eve parties (and all of 2017!) behind you, it's time to take your first healthy steps into 2018. Spend the first day of the new year with your friends at your favorite natural food grocer. The Rising Tide New Year's Day bash is the place to spend Jan....
RECIPES: Safe Food Dye Makes Holidays Bright
For many bakers, food coloring plays an important role in making holidays prettier, more festive and a lot more fun. If you hesitate to use commercial food coloring filled with artificial food dyes, you're in good company; consumer watchdog CSPI says artificial food...
Eco-Friendly Holidays: Tips for ‘Greening’ the Season
The holiday season is a magical time of the year—but can also be a wasteful one. The time period from Thanksgiving-New Year’s has a huge environmental impact in terms of water use, greenhouse gases and land disturbance caused by the production of some of our favorite...
CHARITY OF THE MONTH: Island Harvest’s Weekend Backpack Program
We are pleased to introduce you to our December Charity of the Month: Island Harvest's Weekend Backpack Program. Founded in 1992, Island Harvest is Long Island’s largest hunger relief organization. Its volunteers and staff deliver millions of pounds of good, surplus...
Jen’s Top 3: Sleep Aides
Plans, parties, shopping, cooking (not to mention the occasional night of overeating/drinking, later bedtimes, etc.)—this time of year everyone is go, go, go. Sometimes this perpetual activity can lead to trouble sleeping when you finally stop at the end of the day....
LOCAL FLAVOR: RT Chats with Ithaca Hummus
Our new hummus obsession is the freshest, most homemade-tasting we've found. Ithaca Hummus will stand up to all your chips, crackers, and veggies, and makes an AMAZING sandwich spread or salad topper. We sat down with Ithaca Cold-Crafted founder and president Chris...
CHARITY OF THE MONTH: North Shore Sheltering Program
We are pleased to introduce you to our November Charity of the Month: North Shore Sheltering Program. Twenty-two years ago, two homeless men—in separate incidents—froze to death in Glen Cove. It was this double tragedy that brought religious and community...
Give Thanks: Why Gratitude is Good for You
"Gratitude is the wine of the soul. Go on. Get drunk!" — Rumi It's easy to focus on all the things you want to own, create, or experience, but research shows that appreciating what you already have may be the key to living a healthier, happier life. As we gather with...
NEW: RT Broth Bar
Bone broth has been touted far and wide for its many health benefits. Better hair and nails? Check. Increased immunity? Check. Reduced joint pain/inflammation? Check. Improved digestion and a healthier gut? Check, check. Now the healing power of bone broth can be...
Jen’s Top 3: Acne Remedies
Breakouts are a part of life! In Jen’s Top 3 for October, the Rising Tide Wellness guru dishes on her go-to skin solutions for teens and adults. Mother Dirt: Just brought these amazing new products in and have already had incredible feedback from staff and customers....
LOCAL FLAVOR: Rising Tide Talks with Heritage Bakers
Sea Cliff resident David Shalam left a career in consumer electronics to pursue a dream…and Glen Cove is the luckier for it. Armed with six months of intensive bread and pastry training from NYC’s International Culinary Institute (formerly the French Culinary...
RECIPES: Lovin’ the Pumpkin
You pick your own, you carve it, you clean out the goo and roast the yummy seeds. But what else can your pumpkin do? Turns out pumpkin is one of the healthier things you'll eat this fall. Packed with antioxidants, Vitamins A and C, fiber, and omega-3s, pumpkin is much...
CHARITY OF THE MONTH: Grassroots Environmental Education’s ChildSafe School
We are pleased to introduce you to our October Charity of the Month: Grassroots Environmental Education's ChildSafe School initiative Grassroots is a New York-based non-profit organization founded in 2000 with a mission to educate the public about the links between...
Jen’s Top 3: Immunity Boosters
Welcome to the first edition of our new website series: Jen's Top 3. We'll check in once a month with Jen, Rising Tide's resident Wellness guru, to find out what you need to be taking or doing RIGHT NOW to heal any aspect of your health. Hard to believe it when you...
Non-GMO Month: Intro to Biodynamic Agriculture
October is Non-GMO month...what better time to talk about Biodynamic Farming—what it is and how it affects the food you eat? Here are the Top 5 things you need to know about biodynamic farming and its potential impact on all our lives: (Note: all photos for this story...
Go Organic: New Transitional Certification
The U.S. Organic Industry is growing, growing, growing—organic food now accounts for 5.3% of all food sales in the U.S. We don't need to tell you...across all organic food categories, shoppers are placing high value on freshness and convenience. Says Laura Batcha,...
Back to School, Back to Lice (Ugh!)
Lots to think about as the kids head back to school...but is head lice one of them? Unfortunately, yes. An estimated 6 to 12 million infestations occur each year in the U.S. among children 3 to 11 years of age. Don't worry...we've got everything you need to prevent...