Sustainable Table Farm Aid Tour
In August and September of 2007, Sustainabletable.org traveled from coast-to-coast to raise awareness of sustainable agriculture. Along the way, they passed out over 1500 samples of our Solstice™ Goji Bars with Dark Chocolate and Peanut Butter! Response has been fantastic, with interest building along the way…
“The reason we picked The Solstice Café to stop at was through a connection we’d made with Reiner’s sister Whitney, who happens to be based in Los Angeles. Whitney sent Sustainable Table some Goji Bar samples that Reiner makes, and we fell in love with them. And once we found out that we’d be passing through Corvallis on our trip, we knew we had to stop in. You could call the goji bars an energy bar, but they’re more like a meal in a bar. Among the ingredients are oats, goji berries, chocolate, and peanut butter. Reiner was so kind, he even made up a lot of samples of the bars that we’re giving out as we travel across the country.
Now you could say this isn’t eating local, and I guess once you get out of Oregon it’s not (the goji bars are shipped around the country), but I think this is one of those examples where a person has to make a choice. Sometimes I don’t have time to eat, and I’m not too keen on energy bars – even organic ones – because they taste empty to me, and I’m always hungry an hour or so later, and I found that goji bars taste much better (they’re delicious) and are much more satisfying.
What I also like is that Reiner and his staff hand make each batch in the back kitchen of their café. They label, sticker and ship from back there also. When we toured the kitchen, two pans of goji bars were drying in the sun next to a large window. They’re a small, independent operation who are making a good product, so I think they need to be supported also.”