By making sustainable choices in our everyday lives we can slow down the effects of the damaging human ecological footprint and over time, improve the condition of our water, air and land resources.

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100 Mile Diet
Minimising our Impact
Oceanwise

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What's The Ruddy Doing about...Recycling
We take back all our returnable containers and Avalon milk bottles. Other recyclable containers can be taken to Bowen Island Recycling Depot. For further information go to http://www.bimbc.ca/recycling

100 Mile Diet - Local Eating for
Global Change
When the average North American sits down to dinner each ingredient has typically travelled at least 1,500 miles. Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon chose to confront this alarming statistic with an experiment. Could they live for one year, eating and drinking from within 100 miles of their apartment in Vancouver, British Columbia. Read more...

Minimizing our Impact on the Environment
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: At The Ruddy we compost all our green waste from The Ruddy Potato Store and The Ruddy Kitchen. The Compost at The Ruddy Garden provides nourishment for the fruits and vegetables we grow and later sell in the Ruddy Potato, illustrating the cycle of products no longer useful giving birth to new life. Read more...

The Ruddy Potato Whole Foods Market in Village Square in Snug Cove
Box 308, 996 Dorman Road, Bowen Island, BC, Canada V0N 1G0