Plastic Recycling is a Lie! Part of the challenge of trying to get growers to use 100% recyclable Sustainable Produce Containers over plastic clamshells is they believe their packages are being recycled. It's not. All people have to be RE-educated about this type of plastic. In it's excellent...

Plastic clamshells are not recycled. Period. Billions of plastic produce packages are created each year to hold berries and tomatoes. Although some small percent of the container’s material is made from recycled content, a greater percentage of every clear, hinged “clamshell” is made from finite ...

Sun Sugar Farms’ new 2 Quart Sustainable Produce Container helps mushroom growers increase market share Early in the development of her alternative to plastic containers, farmer and creator Linda Fritz saw her “Sustainable Produce Container” as perfect for holding tomatoes and berries. Its e...

Vented produce clamshell alternative Environmentally-conscious farmers and grocery store owners view sustainability as very important and are making the effort to help the earth and satisfy like-minded consumers. But are the plastics they're putting their produce in ending up in the right place? ...

More than just a way to keep your breath fresh, mint has many other health benefits. Try it in smoothies, yogurt, tea, as a mask or freeze it in ice cube trays for adding flavor to your drinks. THE MANY BENEFITS OF MINT Helps with digestion: Menthol, the active oil in the mint, ha...

Boxes (crates) are better for the environment! Many stores focused only on profits offer a self-scanning service but only offer wasteful flimsy plastic bags to put your groceries in. OR they offer to SELL you their CRAPPY reusable bags that they conveniently sell. The companies who are phasing ou...

News that Kroger will phase out plastic bags by 2025 is great except the reusable bags Kroger sells for $1 (and purchases for much less) are a form of plastic that no recycling companies want to buy. Because they are cheaply made they will end up being a bigger landfill problem than the plastic bags...

You can read the presentation text or watch the video, either way you'll find 5 ways to live more sustainably and in the process you'll look better, feel better and have more money! Live presentation available by contacting Linda Fritz at 859-630-2694 or linda AT sunsugarfarms.com Sustainable L...

On Monday, July 10th, I got to talk to Rush Limbaugh on his show about why I was defending Ivanka Trump's Rollout of the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative. Here's the transcript of the call:   RUSH LIMBAUGH TRANSCRIPT (the actual call transcript of us talking is below his opening commen...

Why is it that organic farmers, who are producing the products better for people and the earth, are promoted the least by the federal government? I’m Linda, owner of Sun Sugar Farms in Verona Kentucky.  At Sun Sugar Farms we're committed to growing our produce sustainably. No chemica...

Recently found this video by CBC Marketplace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0CtmrMtGu4 And I thought I was the only one who hated self-checkouts at the grocery! I won't do self-checkout because there's no incentive to do the store's work for them. I am not and don't want to be the expert ...

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When the grocery conveyor belt starts, 23 scans per minute is the average number of items a Kroger cashier is supposed to scan in 60 seconds. What if that number could be increased - even doubled - by a simple act?  The answer isn't a million dollar high tech machine or a robot. It's just in...

Just saw the documentary "Gleason" last night. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleason_(film)]  Totally inspirational. Everyone should see it. As an athlete, I love playing sports and how basketball, racquetball, soccer, tennis, volleyball, even hiking make me feel al...

I am so tired of people being fooled into purchasing flimsy European "Trolley Bags" or "you're never going to be able to lift it that full anyway" Grab Bags! Get an American-designed collapsible CRESBIcrates system instead!!! Trolley bags are made of cheap can't-be-recycled nonwoven polypro...

Just because it has the recycling symbol doesn't mean your closest recycling center is going to take it. First your material  needs a market. And second, the symbol of those arrows chasing each other in a triangle do NOT mean an item can be recycled. It's just a resin identi...

You don't want to give up the free plastic bags because you have a dog. He goes to the bathroom. You pick up the poop with the free plastic bag that you get when you buy groceries. I get that. I get that the cat litter goes nicely into a grocery bag and then into the trash bag. B...

One third of what ends up in landfills is packaging. This holiday season minimize the amount of packaging that you bring into your life. One CRESBI customer even bought CRESBI crates to fill with holiday goodies for all of her friends and family members, that's a truly reusable packaging idea!&n...;

PLASTIC BAGS In states and cities where there are plastic bag bans, stores charge $0.05 to $0.10/plastic bag if someone forgets their own form of bag. The average family of four uses around 15 bags a week at least. Even if they reuse those bags a couple times, the bags ultimately end up in l...

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November 15th was America Recycles Day. While it is good to recycle, many people won't do it because of the following reasons:  1. “It's inconvenient.” This seems to be the number one reason why people don’t recycle – they don’t want to put in the extra effort. Some places have no pick-up li...